Alice McVeigh has been published by Orion/Hachette in contemporary fiction, by UK’s Unbound in speculative fiction (as Spaulding Taylor) and by Warleigh Hall Press in her current Austenesque series (“McVeigh’s celebrated series” – Publishers Weekly). Her novels have been honoured in the UK Selfies Awards at the 2024 London Book Fair, placed as runner-up in General Fiction for Writer’s Digest and Foreword Indies’ “Book of the Year”, won Kirkus stars and been quarterfinalists in Publishers Weekly‘s BookLife Award.

Alice spent her childhood in Asia in various USA Embassies, her teen years practising cello in McLean, VA, and her entire adulthood in London. She has lived in seven countries and visited 44, mostly touring with top London orchestras. She has long been married to Professor Simon McVeigh, with whom she shares a daughter finishing her PhD at Harvard University, two long-haired dachshunds, an unrequited passion for tennis and a second home in Crete.