Alex Beecroft

Alex Beecroft is an English author best known for historical and contemporary romantic fiction featuring gay characters. In 2010, they were called one of the premier and most beloved authors of male/male historical romances. They also write science fiction/fantasy fiction as Alex Oliver, and cozy mysteries under the pseudonym Robyn Beecroft.

Biography Beecroft was born in Northern Ireland and grew up in the Peak District. As of 2010, they live near Cambridge and have two children.

Beecroft also sees their stories as opportunities to play with and transcend traditional gender roles, stating "M/M romance can be used to examine relationships which don't suffer from the same sort of built in power imbalances and gender role constraints that make m/f romance such a minefield."

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.

Critical reception

In 2010, Rolling Stone named Beecroft one of the "premier authors" of male/male historical romances alongside Erastes, Laura Baumbach and Donald Hardy. In 2018, Publishers Weekly named Beecroft 's Contraband Hearts as one of the year's best romance summer reads.