page_title: Myke Cole
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caption_attribution_description: English: Myke Cole speaking at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon in Phoenix, Arizona.
context_page_description: Myke Cole is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. His debut novel, Shadow Ops: Control Point won the 2013 Compton Crook Award. He was one of the investigators on the CBS reality show Hunted. In 2019 he co-stared on the Discovery Channel series Contact, which explores evidence of UFO activity.
  In February 2018, Cole was one of several male authors anonymously accused of potential misconduct in the online comments to a School Library Journal article that discussed the results of a survey on sexual harassment in children's publishing conducted by author Anne Ursu. Cole ultimately offered an apology on his own blog as well as a promise to contribute $500 to the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund. In 2020, following new Twitter allegations, Cole was dropped by his agent and two of his publishers.
context_section_description: Myke Cole is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. His debut novel, Shadow Ops: Control Point won the 2013 Compton Crook Award.  He was one of the investigators on the CBS reality show Hunted. In 2019 he co-stared on the Discovery Channel series Contact, which explores evidence of UFO activity. 
  In February 2018, Cole was one of several male authors anonymously accused of potential misconduct in the online comments to a School Library Journal article that discussed the results of a survey on sexual harassment in children's publishing conducted by author Anne Ursu. Cole ultimately offered an apology on his own blog as well as a promise to contribute $500 to the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund. In 2020, following new Twitter allegations, Cole was dropped by his agent and two of his publishers.
caption: Cole at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon
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