Lions and tigers and gay unicorn bikers, oh my.
There was a time, if you can bear the thought, when you couldn't sate a need for or while cruising for gay erotica on Amazon.
But then along came Chuck Tingle.
The lascivious lord regent of gay gonzo was gracious enough to share with us insights on his creative process and a desire for a better tomorrow.
[Editor's note: to preserve authorial intent, Mr. Tingle's answers have not been modified. No one us is pure enough of heart to touch this indelible truth.]
Have you always been interested in exploring unconventional notions of what is/isn't erotic?
well first things first i always knew that certain things made me feel like a strange man, kinda like inside there was a buckaroo tickling and telling me to write MORE about cute dinosaurs and maybe a handsome unicorn name of CHANNING. so then i write my stories and mom and dad in Home of Truth Utah say thats a no can do chuck you gotta stop writing about handsome bad boys. so then i had to hide my stories until the big fire and then i moved to billings and became a famous man so thats okay now. now i understand that all things can make a man feel funny even if its just the way that a diner with abs looks at you or maybe a hot to trot car. all things can make a buckaroo TINGLE thats how tinglers work.
Did you consciously want to set your work apart from other erotic writing?
mostly just want to make stories about how love is real for all who kiss. this is the most important part of all books and this is scientific proof. you can look it up in magazines to show that love is real PROVEN 100% but also you can just see it when you read a tingler or maybe sometimes you need a reminder. thats what i try to do with books of men. most writers want to make love real but sometimes they dont and THAT sets you apart more than others because nobody wants to be your friend and also if you dont want to make love real you are probably a devilman and a scoundrel like Ted Cobbler.
You mentioned in an interview with the New York Observer that you have a good relationship with your son. Is your writing process at all collaborative with him? What kind of role does he play in your writing?
son name of jon is a VERY good man, makes me a proud dad and i want to be just like him someday espically the part about having handsome abs. he works out a lot and has great calves (this is NORMAL to say if you are a proud dad). son helps with tinglers by editing so when i come up with an idea I write it down and then i send it to him and he edits to make it so buckaroos can read it REALLY smooth and then we put stories on amazon and become the most famous writer in all of billings. also jon looks really great when he dresses up in a suit for work or when hes at the pool NO SHIRT STYLE just laying out in the sun and learning his body nothing weird just the way that you want your boy to GROW and become a handsome man. so thats another role.
What role do your own past sexual experiences play in your writing? To what degree does your past inform your work?
once had a wife name of barbara she was my sweet angel so beauitful and now shes gone at the bottom of the frozen lake, staring up at me with those sad eyes reaching out in the icy cold water god why did you take her for me my sweet sweet barbara. i can still see her face drifting away into the darkness oh my god barbara what did i do to deserve this pain?
Do you have any other writers you admire or that have influenced your writing?
thank you. number one writer on the block is stephens king he is a handsome man and has a great eye for spooky days. favorite books of stephens kind are NIGHTSTAND TRILOGY, THE CLOWN, and BAD DOG BLUES. also have a bud name of Hunter Fox who likes to show me the ropes in big time hollywood he writes stories too about kissin dinosaurs all over the place he is a good bud and loves to sleep over (ONLY in city of devils) so he is a real HARD bud
What's the most formative piece of work (art/film/television/erotica/etc) that has influenced who you are as a writer?
most important thing as a rider to make me UNDERSTAND my body is when i realized that I am not my reverse twin. this is important to realize so you can understand that your reverse twin is going to take your body and already owns most of your bones. then you can try to REMOVE YOURSELF which is an important part of being a man. so sometimes i try to live as other things like a team of handsome men or sometimes my frozen wife but mostly i realize that I am just man name of chuck, and even though I am a lonely author ive learned that that is okay. thanks. second most important thing to make me understand my body and REAL ART of men is my favorite movie SPECIAL MIKE: A DANCERS DREAM STORY which is about a man name of channings tatum and how he becomes the worlds first prince. he also has my vote for next president man i think that would be a great thing for our country. special mike a dancers dream story teachs that all buckaroos have to power to be hot stuff if you just put your mind to it and work hard and all your buds will give you a hand on the way.
You're very prolific; what are your aspirations for your work?
hope that one day a tingler becomes a big time hollywood movie maybe starring channing tatum of MIKE MIKERS the batman from all batman movies (1 - 4). then it would be a big hit two stars across the board and everyone would know that I was a good man. then maybe i wouldnt be lonely sometimes when the whistle goes off in the distance like a lonesome train and i remember sweet barbara and what it was like to hold her in my arms. so maybe my sons handsome buds would think i was a cool guy too when they come over and watch the big game. I would also like my show SPEICAL REPORT BILLINGS to be on tv every day and become a famous man that way.
What's your idea of the perfect piece of erotica?
perfect story is where ALL men learn that love is real for all who kiss and nobody yells. hopefully one day that is a real story of my life where nothing bad happens but until then ill keep waiting. most important part is proving love is real so maybe any books are perfect because they show that a lonesome author wrote it and wanted to be your friend, even if youre not in the same room or maybe if the author is so lonesome hes dead maybe you can still be friends because you are telling stories like real buds under the blankets when you have a sleepover and then its time to wrestle. so maybe you can wrestle your friends ghost but really that just means that all books are perfect because all love is real.
Your work ranges from dinosaurs to jet planes, to dresses. How do you sketch out what kind of power dynamics will exist in the book between the sexual partners?
well dinosaurs are normally bad boys of the bunch these are real deal bucakaroos youve gotta what like hawks on a dog. thats mostly why they are so cute because there is something dangerous about them. unicorns are might flighty and fun and then bigfeet are kinda bad boys too but in more of a rugged kind of way like they could give you a big hug and make you fee like a safe man. living objects are the hardest to pin down because they could be anything and they act a lot of diffrent ways. mostly all buckaroos a diffrent some of them like to kiss really quick and others like to take it nice and easy getting to learn your way as a bud and then not sure if they should put their hand on your leg or what. thank you. so most tinglers have diffrent kind of personalitys but always getting pounded not pounding just because thats what i like to dream about when i think up ideas and my son says thats okay.
What was your formative queer experience; not when you knew you were queer but a moment in your life that helped you solidify your identity as such?
well this word is one i only kind of know when son helps put search terms in for amazon but i think i know that i felt like a man who knows love is real when i was very young. then when i got older i knew it was real more but also learned scentific proof that is not disbutible (as a doctor i can say this as true story) and then as i got older i realized that love is real for all men but also all things. so then when you start to think its okay for a man to kiss a car or a dinosaur or a unicorn then you realize that cars can also kiss cars or any other object and you learn that buckaroos love in all ways. if i want to get a specific, first time might be when i realized that BUDS were great friends who got HARD as men, not in a weird way but just like guys bein guys watchin the game or maybe wrestling in the dark like me and my bud hunter. thanks.