Alex Beecroft

Alex Beecroft is an English author best known for historical and contemporary romantic fiction featuring gay characters. They also write science fiction/fantasy fiction as Alex Oliver, and cozy mysteries under the pseudonym Robyn Beecroft.

Beecroft won Linden Bay Romance's (now Samhain Publishing) Starlight Writing Competition in 2007 with their first novel, Captain’s Surrender, making it their 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. They are 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. They now live near Cambridge.

Beecroft identifies as agender and uses they/them pronouns.

Bibliography

Standalone Novels

• Captain’s Surrender (2008/2010)
• The Witch's Boy (2008/2011)
• False Colors (2009)
• Shining in the Sun (2011)
• Too Many Faerie Princes (2013)
• The Reluctant Berserker (2014)
• Foxglove Corpse (2017)
• Contraband Hearts (2018)

Series

Arising

• Sons of Devils (2017)
• Angels of Istanbul (2017)

Cygnus Five

• Lioness of Cygnus Five (2016)
• Heart of Cygnus Five (2017)
• Pride of Cygnus Five (2018)

Trowchester Blues

• Trowchester Blues (2015)
• Blue Eyed Stranger (2015)
• Blue Steel Chain (2015)
• Seeing Red (2019)

Under the Hill

• Bomber's Moon (2012)
• Dogfighters (2012)

The Unquiet Spirits

• Buried With Him (2016) prequel novella
• The Wages of Sin (2010)
• Waters of the Deep (2017)

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)
• The Crimson Outlaw (2013)
• Labyrinth (2016)

Short stories

• Insubordination (2008)
• 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