His career also involves television, having appeared on the CBS reality show Hunted[1] and on the Discovery Channel series Contact.

Later on, he was commissioned in the US Coast Guard Reserve and served as a Lieutenant in New York City where he worked law enforcement and search-and-rescue boat operations.

The next two books in the series were published in as many years before the premiere in 2015 of The Reawakening Trilogy, a prequel set in the same universe as Shadow Ops.

Also in 2018, a survey on sexual harassment in children's publishing, related to activism around the #MeToo movement, was conducted by author Anne Ursu.

He committed to rectifying his behavior, donated $500 to the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, and stepped down from managing a writer's happy hour.

[16] In 2019 Cole returned to TV co-starring on the Discovery Channel series Contact, which explores evidence of UFO activity.

These include How the Far Right Perverts Ancient History – And Why It Matters,[18] and America's Militarized Police Can't Fight Coronavirus[19] One of these articles titled The Sparta Fetish Is a Cultural Cancer published in The New Republic in 2019 discussed various myths about Sparta and their use by the Republican party, as well as by right-wing political movements and neo-fascist groups in Europe.

[21][22] His flash science fiction piece, also a political commentary, Congress Must Pass the Living Artists Act appeared in The New York Times in 2020.

[23] Cole's first graphic novel Hundred Wolves was announced in early 2020 with Tony Akins as the artist and Vault Comics as the publisher.

Cole stated that while he recalled meeting the accuser six years prior at the convention in question, he had no memory of the alleged behavior.