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 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. However, Tingle's Facebook account and website confirmed that Jon is his son and that Tingle has Asperger syndrome. Jon stated that Tingle is an autistic savant, as well as a variety of other claims about Tingle that have remained unconfirmed or denied by Tingle himself. In 2016, a person presenting as Tingle's son Jon stated in a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything' session that he edits his father's work for publication and provides day-to-day care for him. A photo presented as a portrait of Tingle was found on a stock photo web site.

Tingle presents himself as a taekwondo grandmaster from Billings, Montana, who acquired a PhD in holistic massage at DeVry University (which does not offer such a degree). He claims to have been born in Home of Truth, Utah, a small isolated southern Utah ghost town established in 1933 as a religious commune and abandoned in 1977. Little has been confirmed about Tingle's identity, beyond the fact that the name 'Chuck Tingle' is a pseudonym. The following year he was a finalist for the Hugo for Best Fan Writer. In 2016, his short story Space Raptor Butt Invasion was a finalist for the Hugo Awards, the result of a coordinated campaign which he disavowed. He self-publishes his works through Amazon, primarily as ebooks, but also as paperbacks and audiobooks. The stories mainly take the form of monster erotica, featuring romantic and sexual encounters with dinosaurs, imaginary creatures, anthropomorphized inanimate objects, and even abstract concepts.

Chuck Tingle is a pseudonymous author, primarily of niche gay erotica.

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