As part of the promotion of Blue Steel Chain, Riptide have scheduled a Book Bub for Trowchester Blues. What the heck is a Book Bub? You may ask yourself. I know I did. Well, it seems to be this cool thing here: https://www.bookbub.com/ebook-deals/recommended Where you sign up with your email address, and pick what categories…
So, we’ve done our first pass edit. We’ve plugged the plot holes and the story is hanging together as a marvellous creation that has a beginning, middle and end. Everything’s tied together in a chronology that could work, and no character has accidentally been forgotten half way through. Surely that’s our job done, right? Not…
One of the joys of writing contemporaries is the ability to pilfer parts of real life to stick into your own personal world. I freely admit that I grabbed churches and bookshops and names of villages with wild abandon to put into Trowchester and its environs. To start with the top down, the twisted spire…
It feels like everything that could be said about Mad Max: Fury Road has already been said, but I’m not going to let that stop me from trying anyway. I wasn’t even going to see it, initially. I remember that I watched one of the earlier films – it may have been Beyond the…
In honour of the launch of Blue Eyed Stranger, a novel that will teach you the secrets about the mysterious world of morris dancing you never thought you needed to know, I present – Morris, the life guide 🙂 If you’re not having fun, it’s not worth doing. Just as nobody dons their baldrics and…
Thanks so much to Charles at Arts Illustrated for inviting me over to do a spot 🙂 http://www.artsillustrated.com/alex-beecroft-writer/ 8. What do you like about your work? I like the fact that it’s about the things I’m interested in. So few books are. The combination of an asexual, queer positive gaze with Christianity is an unfortunately…
OK, that’s maybe not the title I’d have gone for if I’d been going for informational value. I just have the song running through my head at the moment. “Help, I’m alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer.’ Let me see if I can find it somewhere so you can have it running through…
So, I know authors are not supposed to address negative reviews, but I’m going to do it anyway, in a circuitous way. I’ve no desire to hold up any individual review and nobble it, but I’ve had a couple of reviews from people who have had problems with my depiction of Christianity and Paganism in…
“Beecroft’s very English contemporary romance, a standalone linked with Trowchester Blues, is note perfect from start to finish.” – Publisher’s Weekly Wow! This is the kind of thing that makes me feel like I’m a real author 🙂
And I ought to be throwing a party, but you know me by now. I will actually be celebrating by changing the widget in my sidebar from ‘Coming Soon’ to ‘Out Now.’ I am, however, also to be found on all of these blogs talking about the book, and middle age, and how to steal…
