About Alex Beecroft

Alex Beecroft, author of fantasy and historical fiction featuring gay characters

I was born in Northern Ireland, but during the Troubles my family moved to England, and I grew up in the wild countryside of the English Peak District. I studied English and Philosophy before accepting employment with the Lord Chancellor’s Department where I worked for a number of years. Now a full time author, I live with my husband and two children in a little village near Cambridge and try to never grow to take the beautiful countryside or amazing view for granted.

Asexual, agender and mother of a transgender son, I still feel like my place in the LGBT community is perhaps peripheral. But it’s very important to me nevertheless.

I’m only intermittently present in the real world. I have lead a Saxon shield wall into battle, I have morris danced all across the country, but recently I’ve been struggling with fibromyalgia, and the experience of being physically disabled has been reshaping my world. It is an all encompassing experience!

I tend to write somewhere in the intersection between queer romance, science fiction/fantasy and cozyish mystery – that is, my main characters are typically gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual or asexual, and my genres will be somewhere in that venn diagram. (Historical romance, historical fantasy, historical fantasy mystery romance, fantasy romance, fantasy mystery etc etc.)

My romances have always been on the milder side of the heat spectrum, but since I fully accepted my own asexuality they have mostly been fade to black. No more forcing myself to write things I didn’t actually enjoy!

I had various social media things but I never kept up with them, so if you desperately want to ask me a question I’m afraid it’ll have to be through the contact form here or through my newsletter.

Though to be fair, I also only send out a newsletter when there is news – which has not been the case any time for the past five years.

The newsletter is still the best bet, I think. I’m always happy to hear from a newsletter subscriber! If you fancied joining it, there is a book of all my short stories available exclusively for newsletter subscribers, which you can get here – NEWSLETTER

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