by Alex Knight | Jan 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
View of South Bay and Old Town from Scarborough Castle Whenever I read reviews for my books, a recurring comment is about the setting. Readers seem to love the fictional North Yorkshire seaside town of Whitsborough Bay. Those who are familiar with the Yorkshire...
by Alex Knight | Jan 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
If you could turn back time, would you? Would you go back to being young and in school again? It’s tough being a teenager and social media plays an enormous part now in decisions faced every day. The pressures of looking good, wearing the right thing and...
by Alex Knight | Dec 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Location, location, location – and it doesn’t get much better than the opulent and atmospheric Palace of Versailles. But, as a writer, even when you have the perfect setting you still need the right storyline. I knew that all I had to do was wait and the...
by Alex Knight | Dec 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Charming, quirky, loveable, irreverent, sweet, inspirational, adorable and crazy: these are some of the words used by readers to describe my characters. First and foremost, I write novels about ordinary people but, as it turns out, many of my central characters are in...
by Alex Knight | Nov 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have to admit, when I first started talking to friends and family about the ideas for ‘The Weekender’, they were surprised, to say the least. It wasn’t so much the setting, or the storyline: it was more that I’d decided to make the main male character a...
