This weekend, Tyler will be heading down to Cardiff to join the Parthian team for its Festive Book Fair at Chapter Arts Centre. On Saturday there are readings from Mark Blaney and Susie Wild, as well as a buffet (and beverages, of course). Tyler will feature on the Sunday (3.30 pm), alongside fellow short story writers Carole Burns and Rebecca John, recent recipient of the Pen International New Voices Award. The buffet and Saturday evening event is a fiver, and the rest is free - so come along and kick off the holiday season with fine wine, good company, and some great readings.
We're pleased to announce that this weekend Tyler will be returning to Hay-on-Wye for the Hay Festival Winter Weekend, where he's been asked to do an event with Penny Thomas and Francesca Rhydderch. Penny is the editor of Seren books, publisher of Francesca's exquisite debut novel, The Rice Paper Diaries, which picked up the Wales Book of the Year English-language fiction prize, in the year The Drive was nominated. Fran and Penny also co-edited Seren's anthology, New Welsh Short Stories, in which Tyler's story, 'Night Start,' appeared. Appropriately, their event title is based around that same theme, so the trio will be discussing the short story form in general and its modern iterations in Wales and beyond. Tickets are selling quickly but you can still pick them up for a fiver on the Hay Winter Weekend website. The event starts at 11.30 am in The Swan drawing room on Sunday the 29th. Hope to catch you there.
This one is for Tyler's fans back home in Canada (you know who you are...even if he doesn't). We at his publicity team have just had word that all three of his award-winning books are on sale as part of Kobo's Cyber Monday sale, which runs this weekend till November 30th. So if you don't have them already, you can get the e-books of Burrard Inlet, Fireball, and The Drive at a discount rate. We're not sure if this is part of the ominously named 'Black Friday' sales (which has vague echoes of the traumatic 1974 Christmas horror, Black Christmas, which interestingly enough, is also Canadian) but either way we're all for it: so get ready to fight your way to the front of the electronic lines before this deal expires. Did we mention that each of these books is an award-winner? There, Tyler. We actually bigged you up for a change. (Tyler has been complaining that his publicity staff spend more time taking the mickey out of him than supporting him...which is true - but it's just too easy, and too much fun!)
