Is Summer Lane Right Wing Media’s Luckiest and Most Prolific Writer?
By Michael Lovito, October 3, 2023
Imagine you’re a 30-year-old journalist and an ex-president of the United States has just linked to four stories you wrote in the same day. You might consider yourself one lucky scribe.
That’s the enviable situation Summer Lane found herself in on September 15 of this year when former President Donald Trump spotlighted four articles she wrote for the obscure Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) in rapid succession on the Truth Social platform. The matter-of-fact stories included one about Trump’s pledge to protect women everywhere and another on his promise that, if he became president again, he would review the cases of J6 “political prisoners persecuted by Biden.”
According to Lane, this isn’t the first time Trump’s shared her work. Nor does she know in advance if her articles are going to be distributed by Trump or his team, who have also linked to her work on DonaldJTrump.com. But that hasn’t made it any less special for her as a reporter who focuses on “the unprecedented America First Agenda” of the former president and his allies.
“I wouldn’t say I was super surprised, but it’s always nice to see,” Lane said. “We work very, very hard to get the truth out there, so it’s always humbling when someone like the president shares your work.”
Other prominent right wing figures have also linked to her work, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, Devin Nunes, podcaster Candace Owens and radio host Dan Bongino.
While the former president’s endorsement may make these articles some of Lane’s most read – and she didn’t provide TheRighting any data on how much traffic they drove to RSBN – they’re just one piece of what’s been a prolific and varied writing career with a decidedly right wing flavor. Lane has been a professional wordsmith since she was 17, when she began writing post-apocalyptic fiction and freelancing for traditional print media outlets. Now she focuses on politics , participating in what she describes as the “information warfare raging in America today” through both her work as an associate editor at RSBN and her Substack, The Write Revolution.
As an unapologetic booster of the former president and skeptic of both COVID-related mandates and the security of America’s elections, Lane knows that many people may be “unhappy” with the things she writes. But whatever one may think of her politics, there’s no denying that Lane churns out a staggering amount of copy. For instance, in September alone, she had 111 bylined articles on RSBN.
Authors 30 Novels in Just 9 Years
A native of Reedley, California, Lane released her first novel, “State of Emergency,” when she was just 19 through Writing Belle, her own publishing company. “State of Emergency” would go on to spawn 10 sequels, a spin-off trilogy, and two other stand-alone novels that Lane collectively refers to as the “Collapse” series, as well a sequel series of six additional novels titled “Resurrection.” Altogether, Lane published 30 novels between 2013 and 2022, and hopes to publish her 31st in 2024. This astonishing output makes Lane one of right wing media’s most prolific writers.
Despite being a “post-apocalyptic adventure about what happens to America after she gets invaded by globalist superpowers,” Lane insists that she never viewed the “Collapse” or “Resurrection” series as political. She maintains that the “militias” lead by Cassidy Hart, the series’ main character, were inspired by the author’s “admiration of the Revolutionary War,” not the modern-day militia movement. Instead, she says that the novels reflect values and ideas she’s always held that have only been strengthened by the current political climate.
“I really like the underdog, and I like people who take a stand against tyrannical things,” Lane said. “So, when I look at what’s going on in our country, I can see common themes and things that I’ve always believed in my whole life, that were so deep in me, and that kind of came out when COVID happened.”
While politics always interested Lane, Covid marked a significant turning point in her world view, one that roughly corresponded with her decision to become a born-again Christian. Concerned about the effects that California’s mask and vaccine mandates would have on her daughter, Lane decided to move away from fiction and focus on conservative journalism, accepting a job as an assistant editor at RSBN in 2021. At RSBN, which was founded in 2015 to livestream Trump rallies, Lane focuses almost exclusively on the former president’s 2024 campaign, writing short pieces about remarks he makes on the trail as well as editorials supporting his positions. In addition to Trump’s Truth Social account, Lane’s posts have also been aggregated by Save America, the former president’s PAC.
A Nation on the Precipice of Doom
Whenever she wants to write about something outside of the Trump campaign, Lane takes to her Substack, The Write Revolution, where she publishes what she calls “intellectual protestations” concerning cultural and religious topics like the LGBTQ+ rights movement (“I completely oppose this diabolical and destructive agenda,” she wrote in a recent piece) and women’s role in the church. While Lane isn’t shy about her traditionalist Christian views on gender, she still describes herself as a “feminist by nature,” and views her and other like-minded conservative women as reclaiming the women’s rights movement from left-wing activists.
“Feminists worked really hard to get the right to vote and go out in the workplace, and now you’re going to tell me that women don’t exist and erase our gender entirely?,” Lane said about the transgender rights movement. “It’s completely counterproductive to what actual feminism did, so I think that conservative women are not pushing feminism into conservatism, they’re pushing feminism back towards the center.”
Lane’s clear, lucid writing style shouldn’t be mistaken for moderation. She still considers herself a soldier in what she describes as an “internal Cold War” between America’s left and right flanks, and, as the focus of both her novels and a recent Substack post indicate, thinks the nation may be on the precipice of doom.
“When I look at what’s happening in the world, and I see China flying spy balloons over the United States, I see North Korea aligning with Russia, I just see us perched on the edge of World War III,” she said. “And it really makes me think that these fictional things that I used to write about seem to be coming to fruition.”
Michael Lovito is a Brooklyn-based reporter and critic whose work has appeared in Salon, Brooklyn Magazine, Pavement Pieces, and The District. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the politics and pop culture website The Postrider. @MLovito
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Summer Lane has written 30 novels in nine years. But her biggest fan just might be Donald Trump, who has a habit of linking to her articles about him that she writes for RSBN. In September alone, she published more than 100 stories on the obscure right wing site.
