Pain transcribed as art.
Kyle's writing is a combination of transcribed pain and channeled influence. He grew up in squalor in rural Arkansas. His father was an undercover narcotics officer, addled by PTSD and alcoholism. Domestic violence, verbal abuse, and rampant chaos were daily occurrences. It was then that he fell in love with the guitar, playing five hours a day to stave off the darkest thoughts that permeated his mind.
It was also during this time that he became an avid reader. The first series he fell in love with was Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter trilogy, which he read at age 12. In college, he became obsessed with classics from the likes of James Joyce, Faulkner, and Tolstoy. Reading the greatest novelists of all time instilled in him a passion for writing as well. Write what? He didn't know exactly.
Even after he moved to Nashville to play guitar in 2009, he continued to read and write with vigor. It was in Nashville that he discovered some of his most influential authors, such as Bret Easton Ellis, Hunter S. Thompson, and Cormac McCarthy.
The great Southern crime novelist Eli Cranor once said this about becoming a writer: "Write one million words, then throw them away." Although Kyle didn't know it at the time, he was slowly chipping away at finding his voice as an author. Short stories, bad novels, and decent poetry, all of it adding up to what would become Kyle's biggest aspiration. Even during long stints as a touring guitarist, a daytime tech worker, a movie podcaster (Movie Wars), and a standup comedian, he was always writing and reading.
In 2023, he completed his first novel, A Letter From The Blur (currently unpublished), which landed him representation from publishing industry veteran and literary agent Don Pape. From there, Kyle completed The Reclaimers (on submission), a Southern noir detective thriller focused on the masculine crisis forming at the fringes of American society. Now, he's halfway through his newest novel, Glossing Over, a psychological Hollywood thriller that Kyle describes as a psychedelic allegory.
What does all of Kyle's writing have in common? It's the conversion of pain into art. Whether it's his childhood growing up in poverty-stricken Arkansas or the subtle nihilism that forms around modern institutions and power vacuums, Kyle channels what he sees and feels into his characters.