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Blog postFor a number of years I've been posting blog entries here and on Goodreads. About six months ago, though, I started putting out a monthly newsletter with articles, updates on my work-in-progress, book reviews, promotions, and news about upcoming releases, conventions, and presentations, etc. Rather than duplicate the same information over multiple platforms, I've decided to simply archive links to my newsletter here as they are published, so you can check them out at will. And, if you wa
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Blog postIf you've been getting my newsletter (subscribe at https://www.donaldjbingle.com/newslet...) , you've no doubt noticed the various graphics with links to group promotions by various authors--generally grouped around some genre or calendar theme. Those promotions are put together by authors who belong to StoryOriginApp.com. I found it when I was looking for ways to build my newsletter list and signed up (it's free) because I thought it would help me build the number of newsletter subscrib
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Blog postTwo things. First, I've started up a monthly newsletter (usually coming out around the tenth of the month. Since it is a hassle to cross-post the blog portion of the newsletter here and on Goodreads, I'll eventually start just posting links, then maybe not so much here at all. We'll see how it goes. If you want to make sure not to miss anything, you can subscribe to the newsletter here.Second, and more importantly, Jean Rabe (my co-author for The Love-Haight Case Files) recentlywon the 2019 Soon
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Blog postRecently, Jean Rabe (my co-author for The Love-Haight Case Files) won the 2019 Soon-to-be-Famous Illinois Author competition for her book, The Bone Shroud. So I thought I'd make a special edition of my newsletter and my blog all about Jean.
JEAN RABE MADE A WRITER OUT OF A GAMER
During the last couple of decades in the preceding century, I played a lot of roleplaying games, especially classic-style RPGA Network tournaments at places like GenCon, Origins, Winter Fantasy -
Blog postAfter a bit of a lull, the last few weeks have been busy with writerly things. I just sent off a new story to an anthology open call, I've submitted a tie-in novella I'm writing for a new fantasy roleplaying world being crowdfunded soon, and I've just had a story published in Mystery Weekly Magazine (available in print or e-magazine) at https://amzn.to/2zOp0T6. My story, Mutatis Mutandis, takes place in Colorado, near where I used to live. I've also got a few other stories in circulation at vari
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Blog postAfter a bit of a lull, the last few weeks have been busy with writerly things. I just sent off a new story to an anthology open call, I've submitted a tie-in novella I'm writing for a new fantasy roleplaying world being crowdfunded soon, and I've just had a story published in Mystery Weekly Magazine (available in print or e-magazine) at https://amzn.to/2zOp0T6. My story, Mutatis Mutandis, takes place in Colorado, near where I used to live. I've also got a few other stories in circulation
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Blog postIn my last blog, I covered blog tours as one way of authors promoting a new book release. And, yes, there was a contest connected with that blog tour, which I'm happy to say was won by Victoria A.
Another way authors can promoted their books is by working together with other authors. Some of my blog tour stops--Gail Martin, Jean Rabe, Christine Verstraete-were at the blogs of authors I've known for some time. We help each other out not just by forwarding, sharing (sharing is always -
Blog postHappy to say that Victoria A. is the winner of the $25 Amazon Gift Certificate contest run in connection with the blog tour for the release of Wet Work and the re-release of Net Impact. If you missed some of the interviews, Q&As, reviews, and excerpts included on the blog tour, don't despair; you can still find them all here: http://www.ltpromos.com/2018/07/20/donald-j-bingles-wet-work-blog-tour/And, of course, your posts, blogs, and reviews about my books are always welcomed.Now, I've joine
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Blog postWriters not only need to write their books, they need to promote their books. Sure, letting the world know of a new book through your social media connections is a start--you can post about a new release on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, SnapChat, Instagram, Goodreads, your personal blog, and more, but even people who are way more active on social media than I am only have a personal social media presence that reaches so far. And while it is great if your family, friends, acquaintances, a
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Blog postWriters not only need to write their books, they need to promote their books. Sure, letting the world know of a new book through your social media connections is a start--you can post about a new release on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, SnapChat, Instagram, Goodreads, your personal blog, and more, but even people who are way more active on social media than I am only have a personal social media presence that reaches so far. And while it is great if your family, friends, acquaintances, and even
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Blog postWet Work:Dick Thornby Thriller #2byDonald J. BinglePrologueJerry hated his wife’s car. He loved the hybrid’s gas mileage, and he didn’t mind saving the planet for future generations, but he was six foot two and husky. Squeezing behind the wheel practically let him steer with his beer belly.Worse yet, his claustrophobia was heightened by a smoke-belching stream of growling Mack trucks hemming him in as they hauled gravel down the double black diamond sloped street plummeting to the intersection a
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Blog postToday is the official release date for Wet Work, my latest Dick Thornby Thriller. It is also the re-release date for the first Dick Thornby tale, Net Impact (now with a snazzy new cover). So, for those of you who don't like to bother with Kickstarters or pre-orders, you can now get both titles in ebook format or print the regular way on Amazon, bn.com, and Kobo. Heck, Net Impact even has an audio version (though I am still working on getting them to update the cover). Links follow: Net Impact, A
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Blog postToday is the official release date for Wet Work, my latest Dick Thornby Thriller. It is also the re-release date for the first Dick Thornby tale, Net Impact (now with a snazzy new cover).
So, for those of you who don't like to bother with Kickstarters or pre-orders, you can now get both titles in ebook format or print the regular way on Amazon, bn.com, and Kobo. Heck, Net Impact even has an audio version (though I am still working on getting them to update the cover). Links follow: -
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Blog postFor those of you obsessing today over the queue for event registration for GenCon 51, going beserk over the minutes that have gone by without complete satisfaction, please do remember there was a time (yes, in those distant dark years before computers were everywhere) when GenCon's pre-registration booklet was sent out by mail. Worse yet, it was bulk mail, which meant wide variability on when different people in different places would get it. Worst, your registration (with check for fees) had to
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Blog postFor those of you obsessing today over the queue for event registration for GenCon 51, going beserk over the minutes that have gone by without complete satisfaction, please do remember there was a time (yes, in those distant dark years before computers were everywhere) when GenCon's pre-registration booklet was sent out by mail. Worse yet, it was bulk mail, which meant wide variability on when different people in different places would get it. Worst, your registration (with check for fees
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Blog postMost of you who know me know that I played a lot of table-top roleplaying game tournaments during the last twenty years of the last century. Not just the various editions of Dungeons & Dragons (mostly AD&D, 2nd Ed.), but Boot Hill, Shadowrun, Paranoia, Timemaster, Chill, Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, and many, many more. Depending on how you count things, I played 460 (sometimes multi-round) RPGA tournaments in about sixty different game systems and settings and was the
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Blog postMost of you who know me know that I played a lot of table-top roleplaying game tournaments during the last twenty years of the last century. Not just the various editions of Dungeons & Dragons (mostly AD&D, 2nd Ed.), but Boot Hill, Shadowrun, Paranoia, Timemaster, Chill, Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, and many, many more. Depending on how you count things, I played 460 (sometimes multi-round) RPGA tournaments in about sixty different game systems and settings and was the
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Blog postLaunched the Kickstarter yesterday for my new spy thriller, Wet Work, and the re-release of Net Impact, the first in the Dick Thornby Thriller series. Got some great early bird pricing and plenty of stretch goals, including books from Kelly Swails and Buck Hanno. Not going to repeat the pitch here because I'd much rather you clicked through to the site and took a look. That way, you can pledge on the spot and hit the handy icons near the top which let you share the Kickstarter with your friends
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Blog postLaunched the Kickstarter yesterday for my new spy thriller, Wet Work, and the re-release of Net Impact, the first in the Dick Thornby Thriller series. Got some great early bird pricing and plenty of stretch goals, including books from Kelly Swails and Buck Hanno. Not going to repeat the pitch here because I'd much rather you clicked through to the site and took a look. That way, you can pledge on the spot and hit the handy icons near the top which let you share the Kickstarter with your
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Blog postA few years back I wrote a spy thriller called Net Impact. The book was published by Alliteration Ink in both print and ebook formats and got good reviews (4.8 stars on Amazon). http://a.co/20HoipW I even put out an audio version. https://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Net-Impact-Audiobook/B00CRM1DSW?asin=B00CRM1DSWBut I got busy with other projects, including short stories and some other books (including a ghostwriting project) and didn't immediately pursue turning Net Impact into a series. That wa
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Blog postHo! Ho! Ho!My dad was very organized, perhaps even compulsive, about sending Christmas cards. He kept a special list in a ledger with everyone's addresses. The master list had little boxes to checkmark when a card was sent and whether a card was received from such person each year. Not sure exactly what it took to get culled from the master list, but I'm sure the process was more efficient and brutal than culling lists for voter registration. And for many, many years, my parents' holiday greetin
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Blog postIf you follow my blog or hide in the shadows on my social media feeds, you probably know that I've had some of my story collections and books featured in various bundles. Maybe you've gotten a bundle or two. If so, congratulations for not only getting a lot of good reading at a good price, but for supporting me and other independent authors. If not, it may be because you want to support my books and stories on an ala carte basis where I get all the proceeds (can't argue with that) or you're just
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Blog postYep, that's me back when I started playing roleplaying games many, many years ago. Eventually, I was the world's top-ranked player of classic RPGA tournaments for about fifteen years.As many of you know, I put together Paragons from the Past to run RPGA Classic-Style Adventures From the Golden Age of Gaming and Today at GenCon 50 this year. The posting about it got a lot of likes and comments about how cool an idea that was, and most of the tickets were sold, but when the calls for GMs (contact
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Blog postIf you're an author, you do public readings of your work from time to time or participate in writing panels or Q&A sessions about your process and/or your work. That means you need to have a bio ready. It also means that, like famous actors promoting a movie, you get asked a lot of questions you've been asked before. And, since I recently did a reading for the fine folks at Waterline Writers, where I've read before, I needed to do their usual author questionnaire for use in their promotional
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Blog postBack when I participated in role-playing games more frequently (enough so I was the world's top-ranked player of classic RPGA tournaments for about fifteen years), one of the things I and my gaming friends would often say when somebody did something unexpected was "actions have consequences." Those consequences could be bad, but they also could be good--maybe the result of a heroic sacrifice or clever planning. Sometimes the consequences might not be intuitive or obvious, but as long a
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Blog post.THE PULSE POUNDERS THRILLER BUNDLE Curated by Kevin J. Anderson www.storybundle.com/thriller Tick. Tick. Tick. Do you feel your pulse pounding? Time is running out. Sometimes it feels as if life is like a nuclear reactor overheating, a race car with a stuck pedal, accelerating out of control. Your "To Read" stack grows higher and higher, while your reading time decreases each week. Too many responsibilities. Too many distractions. Too little quiet time. Tick. Tick. Who has time to spe
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Blog postJust 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 cons by the score,
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Blog postI know, I know, you're a writer, so you want to read something about writing, not reading. After all, you've been reading practically all your life, from Dick & Jane, to The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, to comic books, to Lord of the Rings, to summer beach reads, to Playboy and Cosmo (for the articles, of course!), to the great classics (whether because you had to or you wanted to), to endless work memos, to instruction manuals for Ikea furniture and Christmas bicycles, to trashy guilty-pleasu
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Blog postFueled by a heavy vote of Londoners who voted for Brexit thinking it was a singing group on Great Britain's Got Talent, citizens of the United Kingdom awoke today to discover that their country was getting divorced from the European Union, which is kind of like a civil union, except there is no sex and apparently less stable commitment. Fueled by a regular diet of bacon and vacuous news reporting, Americans awoke today to the stunning discovery that things actually happen in the world that don't
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Blog postThey say an author's backlist can provide for him in his old age because of the "long-tail" theory of marketing ebooks. Basically, that says that since the cost of keeping an ebook "in print" and available to the market is essentially zero, it really doesn't matter whether you sell a lot of copies of any of your stuff on any given day, because if you have enough stuff available, you'll eventually make a bunch of money on it over time.There's two things that make the long-tail
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Blog postMy company used to own a time travel roleplaying game and I wrote a number of adventures for it. I've also written a number of time travel tales in my time, so I couldn't help but be intrigued when I ran across Singular Irregularity, a Kickstarter for an anthology about time travel gone terribly wrong. Better yet, I knew some of the authors from other projects. But, best of all, when I contacted Kimber Grey, she gave me a chance to join the project, adding my story "Standing Still" to
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Blog postWith five books and somewhere around fifty shorter works published by a variety of small, medium, and large publishers, I have some experience with the editing process. I’ve had editors who have given my work no comments at all and I’ve had editors who have asked for substantial overhauls altering the plot and major characters. And, like any writer, I have a few horror stories about editors, like the one who asked me to revise my submission to de-emphasize certain characters and highlight anothe
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Blog postThe Real Monster Isn’t Under Your Bed You might have been in line behind the monster at the supermarket, or filling your car at the next pump. Maybe you hushed him in a movie theater, or she cut in front of you in traffic. The monster doesn’t live under your bed or in your closet, doesn’t come out of a coffin when the sun goes down or transform into a vicious beast under the full moon. The monster looks like you and me and your boss and the guy behind the counter at Wendy’s. I enjoy reading tale
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Blog postIf you read a lot of books and you've never heard of Storybundle, you should definitely check it out. Basically, a Storybundle curator (in this case Kevin J. Anderson) picks a theme/topic/sub-genre and picks a dozen or so novels on that topic by a wide variety of authors who have submitted their books for Storybundle's consideration. Then the books are offered to the public for a limited time at a fantastic price. The buyer decides what to pay and can tweak their payment to give part to charity
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Blog postI'm trying something new. No, not a Kickstarter. I've had one of those before, for Frame Shop, my mystery thriller about murder in a suburban writers' group. Instead, after getting somewhere around fifty short stories published, gathering and self-publishing my own tales in a series of Writer on Demand story collections by genre, and actively reviewing and marking up manuscripts of others for close to fifteen years, principally as part of the St. Charles Writers' Group, I've decided to go a ste
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Accursed: A Horror Anthology
Dec 10, 2019
by
Jonathan Lambert,
Angelique Fawns,
Michelle von Eschen,
Mya Lairis,
Jordan Kerns,
Justin Guleserian,
Patsy Pratt-Herzog,
Jami Baumann,
Jeannie Warner,
Sophie Kearing,
T.J. Tranchell,
J.C. Raye,
Joan C. Guyll,
Richard Lau,
Alesha Escobar,
Amanda Crum,
Jeff Barker,
Natasha Hanova,
Sipora Coffelt,
Mark McLaughlin,
M. Guendelsberger,
Judith Baron,
B.D. Prince,
H.R. Boldwood,
Tylor James,
Karen Thrower,
Donald J. Bingle,
Lori Titus
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Speakeasies and Spiritualists
Sep 3, 2017
by
Nicole Petit,
M.H. Norris,
Rose Mackenberg,
Jon Black,
Josh Reynolds,
Peter Rawlik,
John Linwood Grant,
Aaron Smith,
James Bojaciuk,
William J. Martin
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Familiar Spirits
Sep 18, 2015
by
Donald J. Bingle-Editor,
William Pack,
Sarah Hans,
Dolores Whitt Becker,
Lynne Handy,
Wren Roberts,
Kate Johnson,
TS Rhodes,
Melanie Waghorne,
Jean Rabe
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