About me
I don’t yet have a photo of myself that I’m happy with, but this one isn’t terrible. Here I am all bundled up for the Straw Bear festival in 2009, at the Ivy Leaf pub in Whittlesey.
A quick run down of my writing career since my first novel, ‘Captain’s Surrender’ was published:
Captain’s Surrender is an Age of Sail m/m historical romance, published by Linden Bay Romance after it had won their ‘Starlight Writing Competition’. At that point (2007) they were only taking on one new author a year, and running an annual competition to see who that new author would be. Well, for 2007, the new author was me 
Captain’s Surrender was published on the 1/1/2008.
Dear Author’s review of Captain’s Surrender
Since then I pretty much disappeared, though I was writing constantly. I had a long short-story called 90% Proof accepted for publication by Freya’s Bower, but the anthology fell through because of editorial illness. Then I resold it to MLR Press for one of their ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ anthologies, and currently it’s waiting for that to happen.
I also edited and revised a novel I had written ten years ago – The Witch’s Boy, a dark fantasy – and published that one myself. However, in exciting news there, I’ve just signed a contract with Lethe Press to release The Witch’s Boy in a new edition from a ‘proper publisher’ some time in 2010
Review of The Witch’s Boy by Ruth Sims, author of The Phoenix
Then I began writing False Colors, which took about a year to finish. Another AoS m/m historical romance, this has been published by Running Press, a subsidiary of Perseus Books, and should be in a book-shop near you.
Dear Author’s review of False Colors
My novella ‘The Wages of Sin’ – a Georgian Ghost story – has just been released by MLR Press in an ebook form. The print anthology called ‘The Mysterious’ with stories by Josh Lanyon and Laura Baumbach in which it’s also due to appear has been slightly delayed but we hope it will be out by the end of January 2010.
Jessewave’s review of The Wages of Sin
My Age of Sail Novella, “Blessed Isle” has been released early (expected in 2010, was actually released in November 2009) in an anthology with three other military-themed m/m novellas. The anthology is called “Hidden Conflict,” and is also be available in ebook form from Bristlecone Pine Press.
Out in Print’s review of Hidden Conflict
My contemporary holiday romance set in a Cornish surfing village has been accepted for publication by Samhain, renamed “Shining in the Sun” and is due out on June 8th 2010.
The print version of the second edition of Captain’s Surrender is due out on August 10th 2010 – I’m just doing the proof reading on that now.
And I have a couple of projects to move onto next I’m currently working on “Under the Hill”, a sort of cross between Torchwood and Tam Lin, featuring elves, bankers, retired RAF men and morris dancers.
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As you can see, I’ve been keeping busy! Now to the bio part of this ‘about me’ page
Alex Beecroft was born in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and grew up in the wild countryside of the Peak District. She studied English and Philosophy before accepting employment with the Crown Court where she worked for a number of years. Now a stay-at-home mum and full time author, Alex lives with her husband and two daughters in a little village near Cambridge and tries to avoid being mistaken for a tourist.
Alex is only intermittently present in the real world. She has lead a Saxon shield wall into battle, toiled as a Georgian kitchen maid, and recently taken up an 800 year old form of English folk dance, but she still hasn’t learned to operate a mobile phone.
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You may be wondering “why is a straight woman writing m/m romance?” In my case I write m/m romance because those have been the stories that have come into my head since I started writing at age 11. I feel I’m hardwired to write m/m fiction. However, if you’re interested in a more thorough debate on why women in general write m/m romance, there is a good starting point for your research here at my livejournal:
