Featured Interview With Brent Tyler
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
“Let me tell you a few things about myself. Since moving to France, I have compared my life to that of a ball spinning on a roulette wheel. I have absolutely no idea where I am going to land up next and it still comes as a complete surprise when I find myself there. Debbie and I have been living in France now for nine years and in each of those nine years we have spent Christmas in a different place.”
“My father was a man who found it very difficult to settle in a job, so much so that when he got up in the morning, his mother used to say ‘What are you going to be today, son?’ Perhaps, it is no wonder that my CV is, how shall I say, so chequered.”
“I live in the south of France with my lovely wife, Debbie, where we seem to hop from working for one stupidly rich lunatic to the next.”
“During our time here we have been adopted by a wonderful dog, Guss, who is not only an amazing footballer but is also both adorable and affectionate. I have never seen a dog who understands people so well and can melt hearts within moments of meeting him.”
“My short-term memory is a shocker and although I have no problem recalling people’s faces, mannerisms and moods, extremely vividly, I couldn’t tell you the colour of the walls in this room, as I type. I have never kept a diary but as someone once put it, I don’t bear a grudge, I just remember the facts.”
“In my spare time I like to walk the hound, write, play games and eat nice food. I am useless with technology. I have no idea what an app is and haven’t a clue how to use social media. I don’t own a Smartphone – I have a brick.”
“I began to write my first book, Cookham to Cannes as I was sitting in our living room in La Garde Freinet. It, perhaps, sounds a cliché but I have always thought that I didn’t write the book – it wrote me. Sometimes, I think that things that happen to you in life can be so astonishing and unbelievable that there is no other way but to commit those thoughts to paper. It’s taken me three years to complete but I think it was worth it. Besides, writing the book was so much cheaper than seeing a psychiatrist.”
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
To be perfectly honest I don’t have a fascination with books – I just enjoy writing. I started writing around twenty years ago. My wife, Debbie, and I owned a food magazine.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
As I’ve said, I really don’t read books – I read a lot of newspapers. If I had to pick a favourite genre it would be autobiographies. I find people’s lives much more fascinating than fiction. The people that inspire me to write are the people that I come into contact with on a daily basis.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book ‘Same Circus Different Clowns’ is very much a continuation of my first book ‘Cookham To Cannes’
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