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Derek Knight, Kingsbury Square resident who also writes a blog and is a keen photographer, has been part of the TIMES volunteer staff for about a year.
Now he’s also a published novelist!
His first book, Being Tony, A Novel, is now available in paperback on Amazon. Here’s what the Amazon site had to say: Say hello to Tony, always quick with a joke, or a story, and always happy to meet you for a drink.
In his time he’s worn many different hats. He’s been a son, a brother, a partner and a lover. He’s been a factory worker and a salesman, managed a pub and a bed shop. He’s driven Jaguar cars, been married and divorced. He’s had one night stands and long term relationships.
But he only ever really wanted one woman and one town.
This is Tony’s story, a patchwork of places, jobs and people, of ups and downs, but through all of it, Tony is always optimistic, and he is the one that can cope, whatever happens. And when he can’t, well, there is always his Jaguar and the open road, and sometimes there are friends around to help him remember who Tony is. Derek said, “This was the first full length fiction I’d published, and I’ve been really pleased with the positive reactions I’ve had so far. One person wrote about the “sensory and geographic mindfulness” of the novel, and I take to mean they found it grounded in real life, which is exactly how I wanted it to be read.” Derek joins a great list of neighborhood authors, and we are pleased to have his contributions to the TIMES.
His photos were a big part of the SDCC 50th Anniversary celebration as well.
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Derek Knight.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February–March 2017.
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