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

I started writing novels on holiday in 2012.  Our Child of the Stars began as a short story I wrote for Halloween in 2013. My writing group were impressed, and I became obsessed with Gene and Molly, and Cory, the little boy from the stars that they adopt, under such challenging circumstances. The book got lovely reviews and is available on both sides of the Atlantic.

Our Child of Two Worlds, delayed by the pandemic, raised the stakes and won similar praise. The two books conclude the story originally conceived although the universe of the books – “the Coryverse” may have more tales to tell.

The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder arose because I wanted to write about Britishness and specifically about Englishness; about our complex relationship with the past; I wanted leads who were morally grayer but still capable of kindness. I write about queerness a lot, and it was time for a novel with queer leads. And in quite desperate times of austerity, pandemic, and climate crisis, I needed to write something with some uplift. But really, Mrs Ashton and Braddie appeared, and over several years brewed in the back of my head. Maisie turned up very quickly when I started to write…

I read widely and enjoy both speculative and non-speculative works. When it comes to writing, I usually include something different from our world, to help us see ourselves from a different angle. I hope my work is accessible and bridges audiences.

 I spent nearly all my childhood in Bristol, and I’m now an adoptive Londoner.   I live with my partner, and two adult children come back from time to time.   I’m a professional communicator, a science PhD dropout, a recovering poet, bi, and a Quaker.

I write about my experience as an author not in the belief I have unique insight, but just to help other people and give a bit of the flavour of how it was for me.  Hence the backstage tag for posts.

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)