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June 30, 2025 • 19 mins

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After a year-long hiatus, Tyler Pyle returns to share exciting news - he's published his first novel! Bone Runeses, a 177-page young adult fantasy, marks the culmination of a writing journey that began in fourth grade with Digimon fan fiction typed on his grandmother's computer.

Tyler takes us through his lifelong relationship with writing, from childhood stories to the six-book series he's now launching. Drawing inspiration from Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Norse mythology, Bone Runeses explores themes of self-identity, finding family, and the power of hard work to develop abilities not naturally given. The book tackles the powerful message that everyone has the potential for greatness, even without innate talents.

The self-publishing process brought unexpected challenges and emotional revelations. Tyler candidly discusses his battle with imposter syndrome after receiving professional edits, feeling he "didn't earn it" until realizing that accepting help doesn't diminish his ownership of the story. He shares practical lessons learned about cover design, spine width considerations, and the financial investment of self-publishing. Throughout the journey, Tyler maintained his authentic voice, refusing to use AI for content creation while staying true to his vision.

Beyond promoting his book, this episode offers a moving glimpse into dream fulfillment. That fourth-grade boy who imagined seeing his stories in print has finally achieved his goal. Bone Runeses is available now on Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other retailers. Follow Author Tyler Pyle on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter to keep up with his writing journey and future installments in this magical series.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How's it going, guys?
I am Tyler Pyle and you mightrecognize this podcast as Three
Geeks Chatting.
Well, I wanted to come on hereand talk about a recent update.
It's been over a year now sincewe have last filmed and posted
a podcast episode episode andwe're all okay, nothing's wrong.

(00:28):
There was no falling out.
We just we were busy andrecording a podcast with 30
people is a lot more stressfulthan I think we were physically
ready for and we didn't have alot of space and time and uh,
with our work schedules itbecame once every other week and
we would wouldn't have time toedit.
But I wanted to come on hereand I wanted to talk about

(00:53):
pretty much life and what I'vebeen up to.
And to start it all off is Iwrote a book.
Now the book is called BoneRuneses and it is a young adult
novel.
It is 177 pages and it's beenout since June 5th, which, as of

(01:17):
recording this podcast episode,it is June 27th, so it's been
out for a little bit, and Ipublished it through Engram,
spark, amazon, kdp, which it'snot free on ebooks yet.
I'm gonna start looking intogetting it on the ebook for KDP

(01:38):
and let it be free, so everyonewho has a membership can read it
for free off of that.
Who has a membership can readit for free off of that.
And then I have it on um Luludirect through my website, which
, um, I'm going to be changingto, uh, where I just order
prints and ship them outmanually.
But it's.

(01:59):
It's been a journey and Iwanted to talk about my journey
through self-publishing as adebut author.
So, if you don't know, my nameis Tyler Pyle and I have been
writing since fourth grade and Iused to read it was Digimon fan

(02:23):
fiction.
I used to.
I used to write, and it wasbefore I knew what fan fiction
was, but it was essentially I,uh, me and a buddy of mine got
sucked into a all the thevirtual digital world, um, uh,

(02:44):
digimon.
And it came about because Ifound a microchip on the street
corner, uh, which at the time Ididn't know what a microchip was
.
I was like, oh, that'sscientific, right there, so I
have to do it.
And so that's what we went with.
And when we went with this idea, well, I say we like I wrote it

(03:09):
with someone, I wrote it myself, it was all done on my
grandma's computer andoriginally I was handwriting
them but my handwriting was sobad that my grandma would type
them up and she would do theproofreading and editing on it
and it was a lot of fun.
But it really got me into why Ilike to write nowadays.

(03:30):
And the the video of the umdigimon fan fiction.
Obviously you can't find itlike I just printed them out and
when my grandma's computercrashed it they went with it and
um, that was years ago so youcan't find them.
But I remember to this day theopening was on an old school

(03:54):
building.
I made it like old bricks andvines and all that.
And I mean I'm 28 now, sofourth grade was like decade,
like I'm 28 now.
So fourth grade was like decade, like feels like a hundred
years ago.
But it got me into writing and Ihad been writing since then.
I mean fourth grade, I waswriting.
Fifth grade I was writing.

(04:19):
Sixth grade I started my first.
Like the summer after sixthgrade I started my first series
which was called the HiddenAnimal and I'm not going to tell
you the premise of that onebecause even to this day I
outline it and I work on it.
But it's a post-apocalypticbook and I've been writing them
for I mean just as long as I canremember.

(04:42):
So going through and writing myfirst actual book was a journey
, and I can't even tell you allof the aspects because some of
it's just a blur.
Working swing shifts, there'ssome days I'm up all night, so
I'd be sitting there up allnight and I'm just tap, tap,

(05:04):
tapping away on my PC writingchapters and outlines and
stories and spinning around inmy chair trying to figure out
what I'm going to do next orwhat the characters are going to
do next.
That I made eight years ago.

(05:26):
It was a concept that I came upwith about a magical high school
similar to Harry Potter, but itwas modern day and there was
more adventure to it.
Originally the concept was kindof Harry Potter mixed with
Final Fantasy, and while I'vekind of pushed away from the

(05:50):
whole Final Fantasy aspect inthis saga of books and that it's
become more of Harry Potterwith like a Percy Jackson vibe
for the Camp Half-Bloods, and italso has Norse mythology, which
the first book doesn't touch ona lot but it will expand into

(06:10):
later on, I really think that,um, there's a lot of depth in it
, that that is missed, that, um,there's a lot of character
growth.
I think the characters arerealistic, um, trying to for one
, the way they talk.
I think they talk like you'dexpect young adults to talk.
You know there's a little bitof language, but nothing that

(06:32):
would like push you into likethinking, oh, this is a full on
adult book.
I mean, these are children andI keep that in mind through the
writing.
Um, it's about self-identity,finding your uh family and

(06:52):
really understanding that justbecause other people claim that
you're not special, it doesn'tmean you're not like you.
You can still be special.
Uh, you don't.
Even if you're not born with anatural talent.
You can earn that naturaltalent, like you can earn it
through hard work and um, itmight take longer, but you still
have that ability to learn fromum what you're not born with.

(07:13):
Um and some cases, I think alot of people who aren't born
with something uh can outperformthose who are born with an
ability.
I mean, we're not all going tobe great writers, but we all
have the potential to be a greatwriter.
I think that's really some ofthe undertones of what this book

(07:36):
series is going to really touchon.
Book one, like I said, iscurrently out.
You can buy it on pretty muchanywhere you find books.
Barnes and Noble is the onethat I highlight a lot, uh,
cause, personally, I like Barnesand Noble.
It's where I get my books, um,but you can.
You can get it through Amazonand, like I said, I have a

(07:56):
website up that you can get itthrough.
All in all, I really wanted tojust express how how much fun it
has been in this process.
The hardest part, I think, aboutthe whole writing aspect for me

(08:16):
was when I sent it to an editor.
I paid someone on Fiverr toedit the book and there was some
struggle there.
But, to touch on the positiveside, when they sent it back to
me, I had a lot of strugglebecause it didn't feel like it
was my book.

(08:37):
It felt like I almost cheatedthe system because I had someone
edit it.
I didn't edit the book.
They found the grammar errors,they found the mistakes and all
that.
They went through all this andfixed it for me and when they
were finished, I cried because Iwas reading it and I felt like

(09:01):
I didn't earn it.
I felt like I didn't deserve it.
I felt like I didn't deserve itand, oddly enough, I had to
think back to the main character, who struggles through a lot of
similar concepts and you seemore of it in later books, that
I'm not going to spoil them.
But I also had to think aboutwhat he goes through in the

(09:23):
later books because I got allsix books outlined goes through
in the later books, because Igot all six books outlined, and
it really is something that youdon't really comprehend until
you're in those shoes whereyou're, um, have an identity, uh
issue, like it's um, oh, whatis it called?
Imposter syndrome?
You know, you really think like, oh yeah, like this is this is

(09:45):
imposter syndrome.
I'm not, um, this isn't reallyme.
I'm playing a part that's notme.
Like I can't do this.
This is all fake and wrong andmessed up.
And you really feel that for alittle bit when you first start
and I'm not saying it's bad,little bit when you first start,

(10:11):
and I'm not saying it's bad,I'm not saying that you, you're
never gonna feel it, I'm.
I'm saying that you, you haveto realize that you wrote
something and just becausesomeone edited for you doesn't
mean it's not yours.
That is your story, those areyour characters, that is your
core.
You go back and double checkwhat they edited and make sure
they don't take your voice away,and I think that's a big thing
is, I went through and I read, Ireread my book and I missed

(10:35):
some details and I had my wiferead it through, um, a second
time, third time, and they leftuh, she left me sticky notes all
over the book with what neededto be fixed and edited after the
main edits, and I went throughand I looked at every single one
that she recommended and someof them I kept.

(10:56):
Some of them I didn't.
I did what I thought was bestand kept my voice, but I also
had to do the same with theprofessional editor.
I had to make sure my voicestayed intact, no one else's
voice and honestly, I, I criedwhen I, when I reread my book
and it was edited, because itfelt so surreal to be holding it

(11:21):
, looking at it.
Uh, with that said, um, therewere struggles.
I did struggle a lot.
I uh, I paid for, I paid all ofit out of pocket.
I paid everything for my bookto be made.
I did not use AI, um, and Ithink that was a very big thing,
especially with books and stuffis people using AI, books and

(11:45):
stuff is people using AI, but Idid not use AI for my book.
What I did do and I don'tconsider this using AI for my

(12:06):
book is I would post my outlineinto the AI and have them
reorganize my thoughts intoproper bullet points, because I
would write an entire page foran outline and then I would post
it and I would say, hey,reorganize this for my outline.
Like, just reorganize mythoughts, because my thoughts
get jumbled up when I'm tryingto figure everything out, and I

(12:26):
did use AI for that, but Ididn't use um.
I didn't have it make anythingand, honestly, I was very strict
.
Uh, if I felt like it wasadding something, I would delete
it.
Uh, I did not want it in anyaspect to be added in.
Uh, my cover art was made by um,uh, milbart, uh,

(12:49):
m-i-i-l-b-a-r-t.
If I remember correctly off thetop of my head.
Uh, they did a phenomenal job,um, and I absolutely love the
book cover.
What, what I didn't know,though, was, when you have a
book cover made, have everythinginside the cover finished so

(13:10):
you know the proximate length ofhow big the book is gonna be,
because it will affect your umpublishing, self-publishing on
ingram and amazon, because youhave to have it a specific way
so nothing gets cut off.
I didn't know this and I had arough estimate that was wildly

(13:38):
off, because I had about 20,000words removed from my book after
editing, which was fine becauseI loved the the new look on it
and how it all sounded, and Iremoved a lot of the constant
like.
We Didn't like restating stuffthat I did and very common in

(14:02):
writing, so it was a very nicetouch and it left my spine to
not be as large as originallyplanned, which meant that the
letters when it said Tyler Pyleon the spine was curved and so
Ingram wouldn't accept it,amazon wouldn't accept it, lulu

(14:24):
Press did for some reason.
I take that how you will, butIngram and Amazon wouldn't take
the book covers.
So I actually had to remove myname from it and I used Canva to
do it.
I removed my name from thespinal cord altogether and I
just left the rune that is onthe spine where it was.

(14:46):
But it was an adventure and Iwouldn't change it for the world
.
I feel like I finally didsomething that I'm proud of.
I'm proud of the Twitch.
I'm proud of the YouTube stuff.
I'm proud of my um videos I'vemade.
I'm proud of the podcast we had.

(15:08):
I'm proud of all of this, butthis was something beyond
expectations of how it made mefeel as a kid.
I didn't care about YouTube asa kid, I didn't care about
Twitch.
As a kid I didn't even likepodcasts.
I mean, I didn't like none ofthis stuff.

(15:28):
But ever since I was a smallchild, I had been writing and
writing and imagining the dealand the ideas that I could have
in the plans of when this hiddenanimal book gets turned into a
movie or a TV show, because Ialways wanted to do a cartoon.
I always wanted it to be acartoon when I first wrote it.

(15:50):
When all this happens, you knowI'm going, I'm gonna be
ecstatic and I would tell my uh,she's my sister-in-law now, but
at the time she was mybrother's girlfriend.
I would go uh, you need to.
Uh, if you, if you edit my book, I'll, I'll give you five
percent, ten percent, of all ofthe earnings that I make and

(16:11):
we'll, we'll be rich together.
Um is stuff I would say.
And I was like I think I was 11or 10.
No, I was in sixth grade, goingin seventh.
I don't know, I was young, Iwas young, young, young, young.
Um, probably like 10th or 10years old, maybe I don't know,
but I just I remember all ofthis ecstatic and excitement

(16:35):
that I would feel when doing itand, um it, I did it.
I mean, to be honest, all I canreally say is I went out there
and I did it.
I created something that I'mproud of and no one can take
that from me, um, that I'm proudof and no one can take that
from me.
If you're listening to this, Ireally hope you've enjoyed my

(16:59):
little insight, and I wanted toBring this back Because I wanted
to talk more about Stuff thatI've been doing with the book
and talking about book stuff.
Well, I don't know the thedrastic change if I'm going to
change it from three geeksgaming or not.
I mean, I used I've been payingfor buzzsprout to keep my these

(17:24):
podcast episodes up, soobviously I'm going to keep them
up.
I don't want to lose them, um,but I don't know where I'm going
to go with the podcast.
But my wife messaged me an hourago and goes hey, you should.
If we're going to be paying forthe Buzzsprout to keep the
podcast up, you should use it.
You should make book contentwith it.

(17:46):
And so I sat down and that'sexactly what I did.
She told me make a whole bunchand get a weekly schedule set up
, so that's what I'm doing.
With that said, guys, I hopeeveryone's doing good and I'm
really appreciative of everyonewho has been watching the

(18:07):
podcast and checking out theepisodes, who don't even know
anything about us outside ofwhat they find on here.
To reiterate, everyone is good,we're all good.
My wife's good, hannah's goodshe's still being Hannah where

(18:33):
we were just talking about DeathStranding 2 um, we've just,
we've just been living life andgetting through everything, um,
so I really appreciate everyonewho still watches and or watches
, who still listens, and I hopeyou guys enjoyed this episode
and I will be doing more bookcontent in the future.

(18:55):
So, as always, guys, check outTyler Pyle on TikTok and
Instagram.
Author Tyler Pyle on Instagram,tiktok and Twitter.
Thank you guys, so much forlistening.
I'll see you guys in the nextepisode.
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