Alex Beecroft

Alex Beecroft is an English author best known for historical fiction, notably Age of Sail, featuring gay characters and romantic storylines. Her novels and shorter works include paranormal, fantasy, and contemporary fiction.

Beecroft won Linden Bay Romance's (now Samhain Publishing) Starlight Writing Competition in 2007 with her first novel, Captain’s Surrender, making it her first published book. On the subject of writing gay romance, Beecroft has appeared in the Charleston City Paper, LA Weekly, the New Haven Advocate, the Baltimore City Paper, and The Other Paper. She is 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 Peak District. She now lives near Cambridge.

Bibliography

Novels

• Captain’s Surrender (2008/2010)
• The Witch's Boy (2008/2011)
• False Colors (2009)
• Shining in the Sun (2011)
• Under the Hill: Bomber's Moon (2012)
• Under the Hill: Dogfighters (2012)
• Too Many Faerie Princes (2013)
• The Reluctant Berserker (2014)

Available for pre order (coming in 2015)

• Trowchester Blues A Trowchester Novel
• Blue Eyed Stranger A Trowchester Novel
• Blue Steel Chain A Trowchester Novel

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)

Short Stories

• Desire and Disguise, anthology: I Do (2009)
• Inner Truth, anthology: I Do Two (2010)
• All At Sea (a short story anthology) (2013)

External links

• Alex Beecroft homepage
• Charleston City Paper article
• LA Weekly article
• New Haven Advocate article
• Baltimore City Paper article
• The Other Paper article