ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charles Bins is a former journalist and marketing PR pro who has ghost-written hundreds of articles for national magazines and is the award-winning author of two books.
- Quirky Stories & Poems: Backwards, Forward & Upside Down,* now in it's second printing, includes 64 outrageous stories and poems to keep you laughing, crying and guessing. Most stories are short-shorts (about 600 words). Some, but not all, are suitable for children. The book also includes about 24 of the author's cartoons.
- Quirky Stories: Wicked Funny, Twisted, Warm & True* is Bins' second collection of quirky short stories, 36 in all. Stories are around 2,000 words, so most can be read in 10 minutes. The book features "The Snare," the short story that won first place in the North Carolina Senior Literary Arts competition in 2025.
For three decades, Charles Bins executed winning campaigns for companies spanning business, technology and consumer products. Before starting his own marketing PR agency, he spent 17 years with a leading agency in New York City representing such clients as Sprint, Dow Chemical, Hewlett-Packard and Armstrong Floors.
Early in his career, he worked for the Bergen Record in New Jersey, and then became an internationally syndicated entertainment columnist reviewing films and interviewing celebrities such as Tom Hanks, Kenny Rogers and Patty Duke. He earned a B.A. in Mass Communications from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and a M.S. in Marketing/E-Commerce from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, City University of New York.
He lives with his wife, Mary, two cats and a cockatoo in Leland, N.C.
* Available in Hardcover, Paperback and E-book formats.