Tyler Pike is an up-and-coming voice in the
thriller genre, earning many accolades for his newly launched thriller series.
Before turning to novels, he was a sinologist, lived in China for many years, and eventually
earned a PhD in Chinese poetry and lectured at the University of Sydney in Chinese. He and his wife
also spent many years studying Hindu philosophy, traveling in India and running a yoga studio in Sydney, before it all came down on
their heads.
When he is not writing, you’ll either find him down
at the beach with his young family or out on the open road. He is an avid ocean
swimmer and long distance runner.
Tyler Pike lives with his family in Australia and the US.
Tyler is different from most popular
writers in that he endeavors to respond personally to every email and loves
sharing his journey with his readers.
For updates on work in progress and free book
offers, join Tyler’s “reading group” on his website:
For More Information
- Visit Tyler Pike’s website.
- Connect with Tyler on Facebook and Twitter.
- Find out more about Tyler at Goodreads.
6'3" 200LBS, AIRBORNE AND ANGRY. ARE THEY
SMART ENOUGH TO LEAVE HER ALONE?
A teenaged loner who sees more than she should,
Alice Brickstone’s mission in life is to find out who or what killed her twin
brother a decade earlier. All her parents will divulge is that he died on a
family trip to an ashram in India, a place impossibly far from her remote ski town in Colorado. When she begins to see faces from her childhood nightmares, Alice buries her fear and pounces on the opportunity to hunt for information…and revenge. She works alone and observes no caution. Her simple mission is complicated when a strange Himalayan hermit shows up in the woods near her house telling her that she has paranormal abilities. Skeptical but determined to use any advantage to end the threat against her, she is shocked to suddenly become the hunted. There is only one way out—Alice must master her newfound skills and fly before tragedy takes over again.
family trip to an ashram in India, a place impossibly far from her remote ski town in Colorado. When she begins to see faces from her childhood nightmares, Alice buries her fear and pounces on the opportunity to hunt for information…and revenge. She works alone and observes no caution. Her simple mission is complicated when a strange Himalayan hermit shows up in the woods near her house telling her that she has paranormal abilities. Skeptical but determined to use any advantage to end the threat against her, she is shocked to suddenly become the hunted. There is only one way out—Alice must master her newfound skills and fly before tragedy takes over again.
GIRL IN THE AIR is the first book in a series of page-turning,
fast-paced magical realism thrillers set in the Rocky Mountains. Be transported into Alice’s low-tech world of ancient
yogic supernatural abilities, modern teenaged angst and post-modern world
problems. Readers interested in Asian mythology will love discovering subtle
allusions to the Mahabharata, and yoga practitioners will twist and writhe in
their seats. If you like your heroes big like Jack Reacher, weird like Carrie,
or scarred like Harry Potter, you’ll love Tyler Pike’s character, Alice Brickstone.
Buy GIRL IN THE AIR today and join Alice on her harrowing ride.
“It’s good, and wackily funny, and mostly
ridiculously believable…An unstoppable magic realism action thriller.” – Tom
Flood, Award-winning Author
For More Information
- Girl in the Air is available at Amazon.
- Pick up your copy at Barnes & Noble.
- Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.
Thank you for this interview! I’d like to know more about you as a person
first. What do you do when you’re not
writing?
When I’m not writing or hanging out with my beautiful 2 year
old daughter, Pippi, I like to play in nature. When I’m at home in Sydney,
I’m either out surfing or ocean swimming. When I’m in Colorado,
I’m usually hiking, trail running, mountain biking, or skiing. We just got
returned from an epic journey through Colorado,
Wyoming and Montana.
We went to the Telluride bluegrass festival, explored the Grand Tetons, and
back-country backpacked in Yellowstone. Such beautiful
country. Oh, and I’m also a professional trumpet player, an interest that,
unfortunately, gets less and less of my attention as I grow as an author.
When did you start writing?
I’ve always written poetry, but I didn’t write my first
short story until I was a college student at Berkeley.
As a published author, what would you say was the most
pivotal point of your writing life?
Most of us have a secret wish—something big, private, and
bold. I do too, but like most people, I considered my wish to be too childish,
naïve, impractical, and I stuffed it in a hidden box, locked up, and ignored
except in my dreams. But when many of my other dreams suddenly all came true
when our daughter Pippi was born, I realized that life is too short to ignore
secret wishes, and I decided to toss my other careers out the window and become
a full time novelist.
If you could go anywhere in the world to start writing your
next book, where would that be and why?
I actually have done exactly that. I’m currently in a remote
and secret location in the Rocky Mountains researching
and writing my third Alice Brickstone book.
If you had 4 hours of extra time today, what would you do?
I feel that there are always more hours in the day if you
shut off the internet. Unfortunately our satellite internet server has conked
out so I feel like I have many many extra hours every day. I’m using it to
spend more time with Pippi and to write.
Where would you like to set a story that you haven’t done
yet?
Tibet
Back to your present book, Girl in the Air, how did you publish it?
I always wanted full creative and marketing control of my
work, so I never bothered to approach any traditional publishers. I’m very
pleased with how things are working out for me as an indie author. Most of my
readers find me on Amazon, but my books are also available on all the other
online book retailers.
In writing your book, did you travel anywhere for research?
I’m almost always travelling and taking careful notes. The
locations in Girl in the Air are
fictional, but are based on trips I made to the Steamboat Springs area of Colorado.
Why was writing Girl
in the Air so important to you?
The book world needed a new female hero. Hermionie Granger
is loyal, smart, and talented, but always a sidekick. Candiss Everdeen is
heroic but perhaps a bit too serious and removed from reality for my taste. The
same goes for Lisbeth Salander, and many others. There are plenty of thriller
heroines out there with “special skills” who do a lot of killing with guns and
knives, but I’m not that into violence.
A few years ago, my wife Tamsin and I were in a Jacuzzi in
the Rockies of Colorado, and got to talking about the lack of good book
heroines. We were scantily clothed (this was two years before children!). It
was my parent’s Jacuzzi, an outdoor one with a view of the sun setting over the
mountains.
Just when the moon rose, we had an epiphany, and came up
with the character that would became Alice Brickstone, the heroine in my new
series. Alice was a very, very
different kind of literary character. Yes, like the other popular literary
heroines, she was conceived to right wrongs that we saw in the world. But from
the moment of her Jacuzzi birth, Alice
turned away from the mainstream world forever and started doing things her way.
Alice doesn’t listen, she is
stubborn, and she will go her own way no matter what. But her inner strength of
character drives her to get the job done, and she is more insightful than any
of her literary peers. Most importantly, she can literally fly. For us it
became a metaphor for rising above the mundane, like in a flying dream. For Alice,
however, it’s a literal means of escaping what and whom she fears, and pursuing
the truth, as well as getting to remote places of deep solitude, which is what
she often needs.
There was another reason my wife and I felt that we needed a
new heroine to save us. Tam and I had just had gotten too close to a yoga group
that we had learned was, in reality, a fairly nasty cult, with a guru at the
top who many believe was sexually abusing some of his young, female followers.
A pattern had emerged, and we began to see the pattern reflected in groups and
communities all over the yoga world and beyond. At the same time, we felt
strongly that our experience with yoga and meditation had been rewarding beyond
our dreams. We hoped that Alice Brickstone could help us reconcile our
experience and also do something to avenge the victims of abusive teachers and
gurus out there.
Where do you get your best ideas and why do you think that
is?
Meditation and walking in the woods, because those are the
two times my head is clearest.
Any final words?
Just a thank you to my readers: if you have already picked
up a copy of GitA and read it, I just
want to let you know how grateful I am. It has always been my dream to reach
readers with a fun novel like this. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for
reading it and making my dream come true!
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