So I finished and turned in the Prophets draft. My next project is Wolfbreed #2 (Still need titles for those) but I can’t really start until Anne at Bantam gets back to me, approving the outline for the next book. Since I didn’t want to jump into the next Apotheosis Read more…
In a manifestation of what I noted in an earlier post; that if your romantic paranormal fantasy is filed on the romance shelf you get a hunk on the cover, on the fantasy shelf you get a babe on the cover in short: Fantasy: Romance: Now there’s a blog post Read more…
John Ottinger has had some nice things to say about Fellowship Fantastic, the latest anthology by Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes. He also had some very nice things to say about this humble author’s contribution: The best stories in this anthology were [Donald J. Bingle’s] “The Quest” and “The Read more…
At least that’s how it’s looking. With help from my kick-ass agent, Eleanor, I’ve sold Wolfbreed and a subsequent novel to Anne Groell at Bantam/Spectra for an advance a bit more than three times what DAW was giving me. Contracts are being written as we speak, and by this time Read more…
(Scalzi @ Whatever alerted me to this.) Note to aspiring writers: Don’t submit stuff to Dragon Magazine, just don’t. They are paying a whopping 3-6 cents a word for all rights. ALL RIGHTS. ALL!!!! This means you can’t re-sell it, you can’t put it on your website, podcast or whatever. Read more…
What the hell is going on here? J. K. Rowling makes an aside about the backstory of one of her characters– something that’s not mentioned, or even evident in the text of the book– and people start freaking out. Right now there are like 40+ comments on two separate posts Read more…
Well J. K. Rowling has confirmed that Dumbledore was gay, and you know something is very strange when the sexual preference of a fictional character is a major story on CNN. I’m just saying. . . I just hope things go well for the headmaster of Hogwarts. After all, we Read more…
Writing and trying to hawk Wolfbreed to agents (news coming on that score, stay tuned) has made me more aware of the growing genre of paranormal romance. I’m seeing it everywhere now, and I noticed something on my last trip to Borders. Now, as you’d expect, if the sexy undead Read more…
I just got my copy of the anthology where my story “Fealty” appears, ‘Places to be, People to Kill.‘ So it’s out, buy it. And while the Klausner review drops my name, it would be nice if some actual people reviewed it on Amazon.