About Alexandria Blaelock - Alexandria Blaelock

Hi, how are you?

I write stories, some of them for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine.

I’ve also written five self-help books applying business techniques to personal matters like getting dressed, cleaning house, and feeding your friends.

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Five fun facts about me

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When I was about eight, I spent a lovely sunny afternoon in an apricot tree eating sun-warmed fruit straight from the branch. And was very ill the next day. Haven’t eaten them since. Can’t even stand the smell of them.
I took a cruise on the original Love Boat (Sun Princess), but decades after the show finished when she was Festival Cruises Flamenco.
I sang First Tenor in my high school’s Choir and Barber Shop Quartet.
I am a dog magnet. Wherever I goes, dogs (and sometimes cats) come to check me out. I’ve been approached by stray dogs in London, San Francisco, Geneva, Pompeii, Rotorua and across Australia (amongst others).
My hair started going white in my early teens; I had Lily Munster streaks and I thought I looked cool.

Awards and publications

The cover of "Crowd Surfing" edited by David Vernon shows a crowd of people at a rock concert.

4 photos: a white kitchen, a blue sofa, a big oval bath, and a hot pink sofa

9 images: a desk, a womn in a black dress, a woman wearing headphones with a phone, a woman in a meatllic jacket, a made up bed, a glass sink, a womans face with red makeup, a lounge room with spotted carpet and a woman in a grey cardigan.

a man in an armchair and a large chess piece

four photos: a man watching a woman on a foggy night, several people in a tunnel, a dark and mysterious male face and a typewriter

A tale laid for a big dinner with lots ofcutery and glasses.

A womn sitting on a cusion with a child sitting on a a seperate cushion

A woman in a summer top cradling her neck on her hand

More me than you can poke a stick at

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All photo credits Kristian Gehradte

The small print

Disclaimer

As a kidney transplant recipient, I will from time to time comment on medical topics, procedures and treatments.

Please note that I’m not qualified to provide medical advice, and you must review any medical information I provide with your medical team, taking your particular circumstances into account.

This information, and my comments, represent the opinions I’ve formed based on the information available to me in my jurisdiction, and might not apply to you in your place of residence.

Disclosure

The only goods I sell on this site are my own. If you click to another store, (e.g., amazon) through one of my universal book links, I may receive a small percentage of your overall sale (though this does not affect the price you pay).

For more information, see my Privacy Policy.

Another disclosure

For the sake of my friends’ and family’s privacy, I refer to all:

Women as Katy in memory of the What Katy Did books by Susan Coolidge – I loved her as a child and I thought she would make an excellent best friend.
Men as Toseland, from The Children of Green Knowe by LM Boston. I adored this series as a child and still have the full set I reread periodically.

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