DONALD J. BINGLE

Great and gracious greetings! Being an author is like being an actor or a door-to-door salesman. There's lots of rejection and...

In the midst of my Kickstarter campaign for Frame Shop, Gail Martin offered to let me do a guest blog post on Killing Off Fictional...

During the Kickstarter for Frame Shop, Jennifer Brozek, a prolific writer and fellow GenCon Writers' Symposium panelist, let me do a...

Janine Spendlove let me guest blog on her site during the Kickstarter for Frame Shop because, well, she's generally a swell friend. Check...

As most of you probably know by now, I launched a Kickstarter today for my novella, Frame Shop. It’s a mystery/thriller set in a writers’...

It’s a staple of writing thrillers that the stakes and the difficulties for the protagonist must keep ratcheting up throughout the story....

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...

When I was in law school, at The University of Chicago on the south side of the city, I dated someone from one of the tony, rich suburbs...

Tis the shopping season, which immediately precedes the giving season, so I suspect that many of you clicking onto this blog are...

I'm not a big fan of writers writing for free or of the various websites, anthologies, and (mostly literary) magazines which expect...

If you are a full-time writer without a day-job, this post is not for you. But if, like most writers, you have a day-job to pay the bills...