Today I’m handing the blog over to TPV to celebrate the launch of his In The Dark trilogy, the first book of which comes out on the 15th of December. So without further ado… “What do you think of Fifty Shades of Grey?” my muse asked. “As little as possible,” I replied. “Bet you’ve…
Let’s face it, I’m scared to try to start a newsletter. Everyone tells me it’s something a writer needs. It’s *the* essential thing that a writer needs after books. I personally wouldn’t join an author’s newsletter, though I have been joined up by people without my permission to theirs and have – if they happened…
I was delighted to be interviewed recently on Muse Hack, which with its concentration on the less trodden paths of the genre world felt like a good fit for me. Here I am trying to explain what the heck it is I write again http://www.musehack.com/blog/2014/11/interview-writer-alex-beecroft.html Did that make any sense to you?
A giveaway and two posts in one week. Where will it end? The Novel Approach were kind enough to interview me about The Reluctant Berserker, so I am over here today explaining why Viking helmets did not have horns and why I like the Saxons so much – hint, it involves elves 🙂 If you…
I’ve always been weird. I remember my parents being concerned because I dressed so much like a boy. “Don’t you want to look attractive?” they would say, and I would think “Why on Earth would I want to look attractive? I don’t want to attract anybody.” At university, I was briefly locked in a rivalry…
Scribd is entirely new to me, to the extent that I only found out about it today. But look, it turns out that you can try several of my books on there: https://www.scribd.com/alex3beecroft/documents/authored but also https://www.scribd.com/alexbeecroft I hear the deal is that it’s a subscription run service, so readers get to read as many books…
Finally I have evidence that I wasn’t just making it all up when I said I had written three new contemporary novels, all set in my fictional city of Trowchester. Here is such strong independent proof that you can even pre-order them already for a 29% discount if you get all three 🙂 Plus, I…
Can anyone help me out here with an opinion? I’ve been thinking about indie-publishing The Glass Floor, because I can’t stand having it lying around any more, and The Witch’s Boy is none the worse for being self-pubbed. (What finally swung my decision was a series of graphs on Diane Duane’s blog indicating that indie-publishing…
Well, it’s been an interesting couple of months in the Beecroft household, starting in April when my aged father decided he could not cope with living alone hundreds of miles away from the rest of the family any more. Since then it’s been a full soap-opera worth of just about every ridiculous plot thread you…
And now for some happier news – look at this amazing t-shirt that my fantastic daughter bought for me for Mothering Sunday 🙂 (Slightly delayed by inefficient shipping so that it arrived today.) I loved it so much that even though it’s too cold to wear it, I put two thermal vests on underneath and…
