FAY KNOWLES
Fay Knowles is a Scottish-born author and short story writer. She has also lived in Australia, England and Canada. She moved to The Bahamas many years ago and is married to Long Islander Erskine Knowles. They have two sons. Fay has been writing since the age of nine, wrote a children's adventure book at eleven and won a school essay competition at age fifteen.
After training as a secretary and then a newspaper reporter in England, she tried various jobs, including working as an editorial assistant in Canada after emigrating there by ship. She once worked as a secretarial “temp” for the late Sir Etienne Dupuch, former Publisher/Editor of The Tribune newspaper, Nassau, transcribing his long, captivating editorials.
Certificates and Writing Clubs
A past member of the Exeter and District Writers' Club (now “Exeter Writers”), Devon, England, she has Certificates in Novel Writing from Writer’s Digest School, Cincinnati, U.S.A., and in Short Story Writing from International Correspondence School (I.C.S.), London, England. Her first published short story, a satirical piece of fiction about a dentist, appeared in a trade magazine. Since then her short stories have been published in “The Lady” magazine, London, England, and “The Broadkill Review”, Delaware, U.S.A., with poetry in the British magazine “Evergreen”.
As well as getting by-lines in local newspapers, her articles have appeared in the British Press; “Westward News” (a former in house publication of British Telecom, where Fay worked when she and her family moved to England for a few years); the “Kennel Gazette” (the official journal of the British Kennel Club); “Christian Herald”; and “Sports Magazine Bahamas”.
She has been interviewed live on Exmouth AiR Radio (Devon, England). The host, UK Radio Presenter Howard James, interviewed her about her published books and her writing life in general. The interview can be heard here on Fay's Youtube channel.
Fay Knowles Writing Assignments and Books
Her writing assignments have included articles for Bahamas Information Services, travel writing for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and as a photo journalist for a Nassau shopping mall. She has also had many years’ experience writing press releases.
She is the author of:
Sunbeams from the Heart: A Collection of Twelve Romantic Short Stories
Dangerous Devotion: Book One in the Buchanan Mystery Romance Series and formerly "Love at Sunset"
Deadly Deceit In Paradise: Book Two in the Buchanan Mystery Romance Series
The Scottish Connection: A Journey Back - Mini-memoir
How to Be the Best Writer Ever!: An informal guide & source of inspiration for new and not so new writers worldwide
Moonbeams from The Soul: A Collection of Fourteen Provocative Short Stories
Funnels: A short story
Fay's books are all available on Amazon worldwide as e-books and in paperback (the short story collections are in large print as well as regular print).
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