Alex Beecroft is an English author best known for historical and contemporary romantic fiction featuring gay characters. They also write science fiction/fantasy fiction as Alex Oliver, and cozy mysteries under the pseudonym Robyn Beecroft.
Beecroft won Linden Bay Romance's (now
Samhain Publishing) Starlight Writing Competition in 2007 with their first novel, ''
Captain’s Surrender'', making it their first published book.
On the subject of writing gay romance, Beecroft has appeared in the ''
Charleston City Paper
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The Other Paper
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''. They are a regular reviewer for the blog
Speak Its Name, which highlights historical gay fiction.
Biography
Beecroft was born in Northern Ireland and grew up in the
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. They now live near Cambridge.
Beecroft identifies as agender and uses ''they/them'' pronouns.
Bibliography
Standalone Novels
* ''Captain’s Surrender'' (2008/2010)
* ''The Witch's Boy'' (2008/2011)
* ''False Colors'' (2009)
* ''Shining in the Sun'' (2011)
* ''Too Many Faerie Princes'' (2013)
* ''The Reluctant Berserker'' (2014)
* ''Foxglove Corpse'' (2017)
* ''Contraband Hearts'' (2018)
Series
Arising
* ''Sons of Devils'' (2017)
* ''Angels of Istanbul'' (2017)
Cygnus Five
* ''Lioness of Cygnus Five'' (2016)
* ''Heart of Cygnus Five'' (2017)
* ''Pride of Cygnus Five'' (2018)
Trowchester Blues
* ''Trowchester Blues'' (2015)
* ''Blue Eyed Stranger'' (2015)
* ''Blue Steel Chain'' (2015)
* ''Seeing Red'' (2019)
Under the Hill
* ''Bomber's Moon'' (2012)
* ''Dogfighters'' (2012)
The Unquiet Spirits
* ''Buried With Him'' (2016) prequel novella
* ''The Wages of Sin'' (2010)
* ''Waters of the Deep'' (2017)
Novellas
* ''Blessed Isle'', anthology: ''Hidden Conflict: Tales from Lost Voices in Battle'' (2009)
* ''The Wages of Sin'', anthology: ''The Mysterious'' (2010)
* ''By Honor Betrayed'' (2011)
* ''His Heart's Obsession'' (2012)
* ''The Crimson Outlaw'' (2013)
* ''Labyrinth'' (2016)
Short stories
* ''Insubordination'' (2008)
* ''Desire and Disguise'', anthology: ''I Do'' (2009)
* ''Inner Truth'', anthology: ''I Do Two'' (2010)
* ''All At Sea'' (a short story anthology) (2013)
References
External links
Alex Beecroft homepageCharleston City Paper articleLA Weekly articleNew Haven Advocate articleBaltimore City Paper articleThe Other Paper article
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English romantic fiction writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Agender people
21st-century English novelists
English science fiction writers
English fantasy writers
21st-century English short story writers