DONALD J. BINGLE

Just got back the other day from a long weekend in Nashville, Tennessee with Jean Rabe (my mentor and co-author of The Love-Haight Case Files) attending Killer Nashville, a conference for writers of mysteries and thrillers. I've been to plenty of conventions before as a gamer and a writer, including thirty-seven GenCons (featuring the ever-glorious GenCon Writer's Symposium founded by Jean Rabe and now run by Marc Tassin), a bunch of Origins Game Fairs, local gaming and scifi

I'm a writer, but I confess I haven't written a book in a while. I've written a number of short stories recently and two novellas under pen names, but not a full-length book recently. (I'm working on a mystery thriller now, but I'm not absolutely positive it will end up long enough to be a book, rather than a longish novella. Since it is a speculative piece of work, rather than written to the specifications of a contract, I'm flexible on how long I make it.) Just so everyon