Tingle looks for bigger book deal, plans more writing

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Each chapter begins with a picture of a handwritten synopsis from Tingle’s original hand-written piece.

Besides moving back into music, Tingle has plans to start writing a screenplay or a second book.

“I’m looking forward just to take things a step at a time and see where it leads,” Tingle said.

For now, Tingle continues to work his security job at the Carousel Hotel.

When he first moved to Ocean City, he worked a general manager position at Domino’s Pizza, but took a job at the hotel after about a year, he said. That’s when he really started writing his story.

“Every time when I came down to the beach when I was a kid, I didn’t want to go. When I got older, I didn’t want to go home and I kept saying, ‘I just want to move down there,’” he said.

Last year, Tingle was awarded the Red Cross Lifesaving Award in recognition of saving a child’s life on Aug. 4, 2020.

While Tingle was working at the Carousel Hotel that day, a storm had broken a window, and the glass had injured a child. Tingle had received firstaid training from Sertified LLC. a Red Cross-licensed training organization.

He tended to the child’s wounds, using what he had learned in training,