I'm a Guest at the Upcoming

Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo: PAGE 2

I'm going to be a guest at this convention in January, along with a whole boatload of better-known game designers (past and present) and game enthusiasts, so pull up your calendar and pencil in January 16-19, 2025 for the best new game convention in the U.S. There will be gaming, panels, seminars, a charity auction, a flea market, bunches of vendors, and more guests of honor than any twelve other conventions combined. I'll be on several panels, including one on the RPGA, and presenting a seminar for writers on Clues, Reveals, and Red Herrings. I'll also be playing some games and selling some books, including my spy thriller series about a regular guy who works for an international spy agency headquartered in ... Philadelphia. Check out the convention's Facebook Page and then sign up for a badge on TableTop Events.

Put "Bingle" in your event search to find my panels and seminars.

Looking forward to seeing all my gaming friends early in 2025.

The Kickstarter for Legends of Lornea ended successfully. If you pledged, rest assured that the tales are all written, the formatting done, and fulfillment should occur in a better than timely manner. If you missed out, I hope to have copies to sell at my 2025 convention book booths. More info about that later.

October is coming to a close soon. That means that thoughts turn to NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). And, if you actually write your own books and stories (rather than relying on AI to do so), you probably care enough about your writing to have a group of fellow writers critique your work and workshop how to make it better. Of course, tensions can run high during this process. In Frame Shop, a mystery thriller set in a suburban writers' group and punctuated by violence, humor, and occasional writing advice, you find out that critiquing another writer can be murder ... then more murder. Check it out.

Of course, October also means Halloween, so check out my and Jean Rabe's series, The Love-Haight Case Files, from the prequel, through the four cases in Book 1, and the four more new cases in Book 2. Click on the images below to find them on Amazon. Throughout the series, Thomas Brock and Evelyn Love protect the legal rights of supernatural creatures, who came to San Francisco when the magic returned (like the hippies always promised it would).

 You can get Books 1 and 2 together in one massive volume for one low price.

Or grab eleven ghost stories--spooky, not gory. Familiar Spirits will haunt you. One reader ended up crying in the street. Get it now at a special, haunting, price.

Or just one ghost story ...

What's the only thing worse than being stuck haunting a shared house?

Being ignored by the first person to sense your presence in years...

Ever since her unfortunate demise, Elle's been forced to watch her living housemates come and go with nothing to fill her days except a crush on longstanding housemate, Dean, who literally doesn’t know she exists. Talk about unrequited love.

Just as she despairs at being stuck halfway to the other side for the rest of her afterlife, the newest resident sparks hope for something more.

As far as mediums go, Ethan barely knows he is one. He just wants a place to knuckle down and finish his degree. But as soon as he moves in, he senses a presence. He tries to ignore it – but Elle is insistent…

The more Ethan uncovers about Elle, the more he suspects her death was no accident. Can he help her move on before she really does fade away?

Donald J. Bingle is the author of seven books and more than sixty shorter works in the horror, thriller, science fiction, mystery, fantasy, steampunk, romance, comedy, and memoir genres. His books include Forced Conversion (near future military scifi), GREENSWORD (darkly comedic eco-thriller), Frame Shop (murder in a suburban writers' group), and the Dick Thornby spy thriller series (Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive). He also co-authored (with Jean Rabe) The Love-Haight Case Files series (a three-time Silver Falchion winning paranormal urban fantasy about two lawyers who represent the legal rights of supernatural creatures in a magic-filled San Francisco. Don also edited Familiar Spirits (an anthology of ghost stories). He also put out the oddest book you've ever seen. Morse Code Mysteries and Missives has three tales (two stories by Don and a relevant piece of non-fiction) presented in Morse Code text, then via links in audio dots and dasher, then in plain English.

Many of Don's shorter works can be found in his Writer on Demand TM collections.

Get the audiobook version of Net Impact at Audible.com, Amazon, and iTunes and the audiobook version of Wet Work at Audible.com, Amazon, and iTunes.

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