Meet the Author
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Meet the Author *
Alexis Richoux is a queer author from Southeast Louisiana.
As a daughter of the Gulf Coast, she takes her inspiration from the natural world around her and finds joy in braiding horror and magic into the mundane. When she isn’t writing, she can be found yelling about hockey, daydreaming about angsty love stories she’ll never publish, or arguing with her cats about exactly why they can’t go outside.
Her latest novella, The Dead Come Talking, was published via Chain Letter on Substack in May of 2026, and her debut novella, The Haunting of Priscilla Laviolette, was self-published in August of 2023.
She can feel her heart in her throat, can taste the mud in her mouth. Eliette thinks she’s made purely of swamp—of spirit lights, and river silt, and brackish water, and turtle shells.
— The Dead Come Talking
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?
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.”
The Dead Come Talking
“The roots of Eliette’s family tree go so deep in the mud, it’d be impossible to extract her from it without unspooling her DNA and turning her into someone else completely.”
The Haunting of Priscilla Laviolette
“She was closer to God and the stars in her casséd treehouse, safe in a holy embrace that urged her to keep living, to keep being herself.
The woods held all her secrets.
The woods wanted her to live.”
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