Alex Scarrow, known for his series Time Riders and Remade, came to St Aidan’s high school to visit first year pupils and talk about his books. He started as a graphic designer for video games.
Over a year he pitched over 30 games to his bosses and not one of them got made. It got to the point he felt like he was literally wasting his time designing these games. His direct manager told him to make games shooting games because kids only wanted something they could shoot. Alex felt that his direct manager was insulting kids and downgrading they’re abilities. He thought he could do so much more but his bosses told him they’d make so much more money with first person shooters. Alex quit that day.
This prompted him to start writing his books. Alex started writing adult books but thought it was too boring to write for. He began to write for the younger generations because “you guys are more open minded than adults are. Adults get annoyed when you break rules. You guys don’t mind (when I break rules) which makes it more fun to me)”
Time Riders was based on one of these games he had pitched. Time riders is about an agency made up of three kids who cheated death and now travel through time to fix history broken by time travel. The first time rider’s book came out on 4th February 2010 and the series spans 9 books.
Alex visits schools, talking to 11-12 year olds specifically, about his books. Throughout the year he visits schools and libraries, giving talks and running writing workshops.
