My mother always said, "Don't toot your own horn. If it's worth tooting, someone else will do it for you!" Great advice Mom. Love ya!"
So here's an excerpt of what Publishers Weekly has had to say about my stuff: "... Novelist Tyler stirs up an intoxicating cocktail composed of equal parts delicious name-dropping gossip, venomous Hollywood satire and steamy boy-meets-boy action ..."
Way cool! The peeps at PW have always given me a good nod. Thanks, guys!
From Publishers Weekly (Complete Review) RE: TRICKS OF THE TRADE First-time novelist Tyler stirs up an intoxicating cocktail composed of equal parts delicious name-dropping gossip, venomous Hollywood satire and steamy boy-meets-boy action. As staff copywriter at Sterling Studios, Bart Cain is in a prime position to observe the destruction that his homophobic boss, "Scary Shari" Draper, has set in motion in her winner-take-all battle to unseat gay head honcho Owen Lucas. Blackmailed into helping her, Bart enlists the aid of friends to foil her plan. While the intrigue at work makes Bart's life miserable, he finds temporary happiness in the bed of hunky gigolo/screenwriter Rodrigo Dominguez. In an effort to help Rod's writing career, Bart escorts him to a party filled with movers and shakers at the home of TV star Jim Fallon. Unfortunately for Bart, Fallon sets his sights on the lusty Latino and steals him away with promises of producing his script. Fallon is looking for a vehicle to resurrect the career he destroyed when a homemade s&m porn video revealed a different side of TV's favorite squeaky-clean sitcom dad. Written in cinematic, pop culture-inflected prose, this fast-paced name-dropper pulls the reader effortlessly, along like a spicy NC-17 cable miniseries. The surprise is Tyler's multidimensional characters, who, like counterparts in Queer as Folk and Sex in the City, live in the fast lane but are filled with enough doubts, concerns and foibles to endear them to readers. (July 2)Forecast: The stop-you-in-your-tracks cover art and national ad campaign will certainly grab attention, and the July release gives the book a springboard to becoming this summer's big gay beach novel, following in the footsteps of California Screaming and Sex Toys of the Gods.
From Publishers Weekly RE: HUNK HOUSE After scourging gay Hollywood in last year's Tricks of the Trade, Tyler turns his satiric sights on reality TV with incendiary results. Those with a taste for malicious mischief will enjoy this heady concoction of plot-heavy, door-slamming farce mixed with explicit gay sex and Tinseltown name-dropping (with the latter fictionalized just enough to avoid legal action). Although it's generally all in good fun, there's a trip to a dungeon (run by the priest at St. Ethel Mertz the Divine) that may separate the men from the boys. When a scandal gets Hamilton Peabody demoted to the position of programming director at a small local TV station in Dulcit, Iowa, he comes up with an idea to get himself back into L.A. and the limelight. He creates the reality TV/game show Hunk House (a mixture of Survivor, Real World and Queer as Folk) to resuscitate his career. Six gay men volunteer to be holed up in a haunted Victorian mansion equipped with cameras to record their every move, and one household member gets voted "out" each week. However, the small town can only find five gay contestants, so Bull, the station's straight repairman, is coerced into joining the show. Readers may be able to guess the results but not all the twists that the story takes to get there. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Publishers Weekly RE: GAY BLADES From the author of Hunk House and Tricks of the Trade comes a backstage tour of a notorious ice-skating show, where the best follies are off the ice...and between the sheets... Never in a million years did lean, muscled, competitive figure skater Todd Windsor imagine he'd sink to this--performing nightly in "Gold on Ice, " a glittery, gaudy, touring ice-skating show. Maybe if he hadn't fallen on his adorable buns with each attempted quad jump during his one-shot Olympic program, he'd be beaming from a box of cereal. Todd's only consolation in the world of theme park tacky is his best friend and fellow skater Jay Logan. When the two aren't gyrating on the ice, they're scorching the sheets at every Motel 6 with their male fans, dreaming of rich husbands and life without the soulless frostbite of pro skating. When the troupe hits a local rink in glamorous Clarksville, Missouri, the guys think they've hit an all-time low...until they meet a gorgeous, eighteen-year-old fan of the first order: Ian Dane, Projecting a demeanor of sweet innocence, the novice skater shyly takes to the ice under Jay and Todd's prodding and executes a dazzling, flawless performance. Impressed with his skating--and his spandex--Jay and Todd push their producer to add him to the show, while both men pursue him in bed, where Ian demonstrates talents that could win him gold in a whole new department. Faster than they can say Eve Harrington on steroids, Todd and Jay watch in horrified amazement as their protege claws his way to the top over their beautifully bare backs. But this isn't Todd and Jay's first time at the ice-skating rodeo, and they have a thing or two to teach Miss Thing about getting up and getting even.Using everything and everyone at their disposal--from cheap tricks to some of the most gorgeously sculpted bait on the planet--Todd and Jay concoct a delicious plan of revenge that will pull the sequins off a certain skater's goody-goody act and show the world All About Ian...
From Publishers Weekly RE: ONE NIGHT STAND Like millions of other gorgeous, iron-pumped young boys, Derek Bracken came to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and maybe a chance at Mr. Right. But after a few years of waiting tables, Derek's still a sexy unknown...until a sheet-soaking session with a Hollywood hotshot takes his life and career in a very new and profitable direction as a top-notch escort. Servicing Tinseltown's closeted stars and gay mafia dons turns Derek into a star in his own right. But Derek wants more. Trawling the West Hollywood clubs and internet chat rooms, the aspiring stud broker collects his own "dirty dozen" - a reliable coterie of young men with diverse body types, trained to cater to rich men's sexual fantasies. At "One Night Stand" nothing is too taboo, too outrageous or too close to the edge. But not everyone is happy. For years the Hollywood and Beverly Hills sex-for-sale scene has been run by Fraker, a man with no intentions of being deposed by this new boy. Watching his business empire crumble, fighting desperately for control, Fraker wants to win it back at all costs - even if it means jeopardising everyone in Derek's little black book...