DONALD J. BINGLE

Continuing my promised ten top ten lists to ease your withdrawal upon David Letterman's reitrement with: The Top Ten Reasons Writers...

Back when I was General Counsel at Boston Chicken (now Boston Market), I often emceed company gatherings, franchise development...

As most of you know, I ran a successful Kickstarter through my publishing company, 54-40' Orphyte, Inc., for my mystery thriller, Frame...

Let's keep this short. There's lots being written about the Hugos this year, with plenty of passion and finger-pointing. You could spend...

Fans of Net Impact will appreciate the April 1 post DIA Underground: The “Elite” Travel Experience from the folks at www.flydenver.com....

I know that there are a lot of nerds out there that think Joss Whedon can do no wrong and, trust me, I'm a fan, too (with a genuine...

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

Andy Weir's The Martian already has more than 7,500 reviews on Amazon, so I doubt my review would be much noticed there, which is why I...

Writers write for all sorts of reasons, but the general public always seems to want to create a simple dichotomy between writers who...

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’...

This is actually a combination of two posts originally posted in August of 2014: GISHWHES, the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the...

Summer is not only convention season--I am a regular panelist on writing topics at both Origins and GenCon--but it is also the season for...

There's no M. Night Shyamalan twist here. I'm not the world's best writer. Duh. I know that. As this blog proves, I'm not the world's...

Finally got around to watching The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug via Netflix a few days ago. Why didn’t I go see it in the theater?...

Went to see Transcendence last night (a better than expected four out of five stars, perhaps because it is a thinky movie and I like that...

Did you ever notice that some buskers (street performers) bring a box or milk crate to stand on while they perform? They do that so that...

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