I’m interested in strong, believable characters and their relationships. I like writing to have hope and humour, and to recognise the dark and unfair side of life. Usually, my work has some speculative or fantastical elements, but I am not interested in strict barriers between genres.

“Cox’s writing style is warm, lyrical and not afraid to explore humanity’s many complex and opposing points of view. This is the kind of book that makes you think about what being human is and could be.” (Run along the shelves blog)

The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder - Spooky Sapphic Victorian Murder Mystery is published 1st Sept.

"London 1881. Two older women, lovers living off their spiritualist scam; a beautiful young Lady lost in grief; and a powerful man concealing a hideous crime." One reader said

"With the perfect mix of meticulous research, emotional depth and a rollicking good story besides, Stephen Cox delivers surprises to the very end."

My two previous novels are available throughout the Anglosphere - and hopefully wider. I am querying a novella and there is free short fiction on my website. I provide services for writers and readers.

The first book Our Child of the Stars was called 'heartfelt, imaginative and thrilling'. In a 60s small American town, a childless couple rescue an alien boy and try to keep him from the government.

Our Child of Two Worlds concludes the story - though not perhaps further stories in that universe.

'a remarkable story of family and the power of love, set against the backdrop of a fast-changing, terrifying decade and an interstellar threat almost beyond imagining.'

My grandmother told me I read too much. I remember walking in the garden when I was small, telling myself stories.

I post on the website and I have a regular newsletter

I’ve lived in several places. I spent nearly all my childhood in Bristol, and I’m now an adoptive Londoner. I have a partner and two adult children. I’m a professional communicator, a science PhD dropout, a recovering poet, and a Quaker.

I’m active in the All Good Bookshop writers group

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I’m not the sculptor, the American Libertarian and expert on Jane Austen, or the guy who wrote a book about the Munchkins.