Tingle has said that his wife drowned in an automobile accident, but Jon stated that his parents are divorced, and the woman who died was Tingle's caregiver. Tingle has a distinctive style of conversation, such as consistently referring to Jon as 'son name of Jon' and his fans as 'buckaroos' and 'ladybucks', but this does not carry over to his published fiction.
Tingle claims this is for privacy reasons.
