Meet the Author
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Meet the Author *
A daughter of the Gulf Coast, Alexis Richoux is a queer author living amongst the swamps of Southeast Louisiana, where the humidity threatens to swallow you whole if the cryptids don’t get to you first. She pulls inspiration for her stories from the natural world around her and enjoys adding a bit of horror and magic to the more mundane things in life.
When she’s not writing, she can be found yelling about hockey, daydreaming about angsty love stories she’ll never publish, or baking cookies to deal with the heat from the fires of feminine rage.
Her debut novella, The Haunting of Priscilla Laviolette, was self-published in August of 2023.
She knew if she walked into that room, she’d fall apart. She’d shatter into a million pieces and anyone who tried to put her back together would come back with cuts on their hands and poison in their blood.
— The Haunting of Priscilla Laviolette
DEBUT NOVELLA
DEBUT NOVELLA
Mauvaise Partance Bonne Arrivee
“A bad beginning brings a good end," that's what Mawmaw Guidry used to say. They're the words Priscilla, Catherine, and Desiree have lived by all their lives, but when a fatal car accident brings Desiree's life to an abrupt end, Catherine and Priscilla are left reeling.
Catherine must face the horrors of, once again, being known as a survivor while Priscilla is haunted by her guilt-ridden grief and hunted by a monster that seeks to consume her.
A bad beginning brings a good end, but is there one to be found in the carnage?
Bear Lee, Author of All the Dead Things
“This book feels damp, like rotten logs and good soil…I’m a sucker for a Southern Gothic monster story.”
Goodreads Review
“Grief for a lover whom you could never truly have, against a backdrop of religious trauma...bring your tissues and your favorite weighted blanket. Trust me, you’ll need it.”
Events
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Blood on the Bookshelves, Part Two: Even Bloodier
10.21.2023 Annapolis, MD
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Author Signing
10.29.2023 White Marsh, MD
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NAHM Celebration
11.04.2023 Colombia, MD
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Poboy Festival w/ Blue Cypress Books
11.19.2023 New Orleans, LA
The Haunting of Priscilla Laviolette
“She’d found herself wondering if their relationship—the one that fell somewhere between not quite lovers but certainly more than friends—would be what finally dragged her down to sit in front of the Devil, with his swishing barbed tail and twisting red horns, his gavel held aloft in anticipation of sentencing her to an afterlife of pain.”
The Haunting of Priscilla Laviolette