I am so excited to share a special interview in our 12th issue of Grove Street. Omar Tyree is a contemporary trailblazer. The publication (Grove Street) was created in honor of writers like him. The interview is our longest, but if you take the time to read it, you will really understand how committed he has been to the writing craft, what it takes to be successful in the industry, and the changes that have taken place in publishing. Mr. Omar Tyree is also a literary consultant. Details about it are in the interview.
If you are a book lover, I want to also mention that his new series sounds fierce. I can really relate to the premise of it since I am from a multicultural family. I am going to purchase 'The Traveler' and get ready for the next one. I respect that Omar Tyree had a business mind at a very young age. His story could also inspire young people to know that they don't have to live up to stereotypes--especially young men of color. I am so glad that Omar agreed to the interview. I learned so much about him that I never would've known. To readers and authors who stop by who like unique books and series, I encourage you to join me in sharing news about Omar Tyree's new project. In the interview, he explained how he set it up. I'm ready to travel!
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
Grove Street: Hello everyone that’s listening in or reading our publication. We have a very special guest today. I’ll let him tell you who he is.
Omar: This is Omar Tyree, New York Times best-selling author, journalist, poet, screenwriter, songwriter and entrepreneur. My website is omartyree.com.
Grove Street: Wonderful. There is so much that you’ve done. I read how you branded yourself so well, and you didn’t put yourself in a box. Tell us a about your business walk and how you prepared yourself. How did you start having that mindset—I guess going back to around 1992. Why did you start your publishing company and did you always know you were going to be a writer?
Omar: I actually wanted to be a football player as a teenager and a high schooler. I went to the University of Pittsburgh and had plans to walk on to the football team. At the time, I was on the track team for Pittsburgh. Once I got to the college level at the Big East Pittsburgh Panthers, I saw how many individual players and students were kind of being used and abused for their athletic skills. They were not getting the proper education, mainly because they were not taking advantage of the education and only thinking about playing sports. At that point, I became a more radical thinker, speaker and writer as a freshman. My test grades in reading and writing were sky high, and I ended up passing to the highest levels of English comprehension and writing, then I took creative writing. From that point on, I had friends who challenged me. ‘You’re so good at writing and speaking on different subjects, you should go ahead and write a book.’ At the time, I was about nineteen-years-old. I said...
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