What inspired you to write your memoir?
Everyone has stories they tell about their dad or maybe their father-in-law, but most people never get around to letting their father or father-in-law know before it’s too late that those stories are fond, funny memories that they cherish and want to share. I’ve collected some of my favorite stories, including my award-winning tale, Father’s Day, to tell those stories and to encourage others to do the same.
About your Book:
Thousands and thousands of copies of “Father’s Day,” Donald J. Bingle’s award-winning, humorous, short memoir were downloaded last year by sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers for Father’s Day, as well as for birthdays, anniversaries, and other family occasions, garnering it 4.7 stars on Amazon. Now the author has created a Deluxe 3 Pack Edition with not only the original “Father’s Day,” but with two other tales of fathers and fathers-in-law (“Work Mode” and “Tree of Enlightenment”), plus, as an added bonus, the first scene of Donald J. Bingle’s first novel, “Forced Conversion.”
About “Father’s Day”: “You never know what day your kids are going to remember most about growing up.
You hope that it is a good day, a day when you performed well as a parent. Your greatest fear is that it will be a bad day, a day when you lost your temper or let the dog run out in front of traffic, or a day when something happened that is only talked about in front of high-priced therapists.
In my case it was the day my dad bought sod.”
Thus begins Donald J. Bingle’s award-winning short memoir about his father, a heart-warming, surprising, and humorous tale about how a single incident on a single summer day can become one of a child’s favorite memories of his parent.
This short, simple tale will bring both laughter and tears and create a lasting memory that no mass-produced Father’s Day card can ever duplicate. Pre-load it on your dad’s Kindle for a perfect Father’s Day gift. At about 2,000 words, it is a delightful short read, not a lengthy chore.
“Father’s Day” won 1st Place in the California Literary Arts Society Memoir Contest (2009) and 2nd Place, Non-Fiction, in West Suburban Living’s Annual Writing and Photography Contest (2005).
About “Work Mode”: Work mode is great for dealing with work, but not so great in other contexts. Approximately 1,130 words.
About “Tree of Enlightenment”: The simplest chores can lead to the most profound lessons about life and parenthood. Approximately 2,240 words.
About “Forced Conversion”: Everyone can have heaven, any heaven they want, but some people don’t want to go. Read the action-packed start of Don’s first novel. Here’s what reviewers have had to say:
Says Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids: “Visceral, bloody — and one hell of a page turner! Bingle tackles the philosophical issues surrounding uploaded consciousness in a fresh, exciting way. This is the debut of a major novelist — don’t miss it.”
Says Ed Greenwood, Creator of The Forgotten Realms™ and Author of the bestselling Elminster novels: “I loved it! Many writers have explored hard-hitting and brutal possible futures for Earth, and told colorful tales of people trying to stay alive in them, but few have brought such imagined futures as vividly to life as Don Bingle — and no other book I can think of examines how and why such a future might just happen as well as FORCED CONVERSION does — or provides half the breath-catching twists and turns of Bingle’s yarn. A ‘good read’ of the old school, coupled with all-too-plausible reasons for everything. A grim warning and a fast action adventure tale, all in one! Highly recommended!”
How did you decide how to publish your book and where is it published through:
I originally put my Father’s Day story up as a stand-alone tale on Kindle, gave away a bunch of copies throught the KDP Select freebie days, then put out a deluxe edition with a couple more stories.
How do you see writing a Memoir as different from writing other genres of books?
An important thing to remember is that memoirs are stories, too, just like fiction. Just because something is true, doesn’t mean it is a story. It still needs a strong start to hook the reader, a story arc, and a satisfying ending.
Author Bio:
Best known as the world’s top-ranked player of classic role-playing games for fifteen years, Donald J. Bingle is an oft-published author in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres. Donald J. Bingle has three published novels (Net Impact; Forced Conversion; GREENSWORD) and about thirty stories, primarily in DAW themed anthologies and tie-in anthologies, including stories in The Crimson Pact, Steampunk’d, Imaginary Friends, Fellowship Fantastic, Zombie Raccoons and Killer Bunnies, Time Twisters, Front Lines, Slipstreams, Gamer Fantastic, Transformers Legends, Search for Magic (Dragonlance), If I Were An Evil Overlord, Blue Kingdoms–Mages & Magic, Civil War Fantastic, Future Americas, All Hell Breaking Loose, The Dimension Next Door, Sol’s Children, Historical Hauntings, Hot & Steamy–Tales of Steampunk Romance, Carnage & Consequences, and Fantasy Gone Wrong.
His story “Gentlemanly Horrors of Mine Alone” was the ninth story in Mike Stackpole’s Chain Story Project. His story, “MAKESHIFT” is available for just 99 cents, as is “Running Free: A Tale Inspired by Patsy Ann.”
Donald J. Bingle is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Horror Writers Association, International Thriller Writers, Horror Writers Association, International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, the GenCon Writers Symposium, the Origins Game Fair Library, and the St. Charles Writers Group.
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