Alice McVeigh has been published in contemporary fiction by Orion Publishing, in speculative thrillers (using pen name Spaulding Taylor) by UK's Unbound, and in historical fiction with Warleigh Hall Press.
She was born in South Korea of American diplomatic parents, and lived in Asia until she was 13, when the family returned to Washington D.C. After achieving a B.Mus. with distinction in cello performance at the internationally acclaimed Jacobs School of Music, she came to London to study with the stunningly gifted Jacqueline du Pré. Since then she has performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique all over Europe, America and Asia.
Her first two contemporary novels – While the Music Lasts and Ghost Music – were published by Orion Publishing/Hachette in the late 90s, and her first play (Beating Time) put on at the Lewisham Theatre. (The film rights to her first book were also sold, to Channel 4, but Mozart in the Jungle got there first!). She has recently re-written both books, which are available only on https://www.alicemcveigh.com.
Last Star Standing was published in February 2021, and won a Kirkus Star, was runner-up in the Independent Press Awards and placed third in the Incipere Book Awards. It was also a finalist in CIBA's Cygnus Award, the International Book Awards, the Eric Hoffer Book Awards and the Wishing Shelf fiction award.
Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel, was released by Warleigh Hall Press in June 2021. A BookLife quarter-finalist, it won First Prize in the PenCraft, eLit, Global, Incipere and Historical Fiction Company book awards, along with an IndieBRAG medallion. In December it was selected by Shelf Unbound magazine as one of the "100 Notable Indies of 2021". It was a recent finalist in CIBA's Goethe Award, and too many others to mention.
The second in her Jane Austenesque series, Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation, was published on Feb.3, 2022, and is currently a finalist for Foreword Indies' "Book of the Year". A Publishers Weekly "Editors Pick", and recent winner of a bronze IPPY and gold in the Global book awards, Harriet was also a finalist in CIBA's Chatelaine Award and the International Book Awards.
The third in the series (Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Variation) will be released on June 30, 2023.
Alice is married to Professor Simon McVeigh, and lives in London. They share one daughter - currently studying Chinese Lit. at Harvard on a Presidential Scholarship - a bolthole in Crete, and an incurable addiction to tennis.
