THE WORLDS
• Eddie LaCrosse
• The Hum and the Shiver
• The Firefly Witch
• The Memphis Vampires
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Welcome to the website for Alex Bledsoe, author of the Eddie LaCrosse novels (The Sword-Edged Blonde, Burn Me Deadly and the forthcoming Dark Jenny), the novels of the Memphis vampires (Blood Groove and The Girls with Games of Blood) and the first Tufa novel, the forthcoming The Hum and the Shiver.

If you really want to know what's current, keep up with me on Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace, and read my blog here. This website gets infrequent updates, mainly because I'm too busy raising my heathen sons and writing.

There are some special things here, though: exlusive short stories featuring characters from my novels, and essays about my creative process. So I hope you'll poke around and have some fun. I'll try to keep the NEWS page updated with new releases, personal appearances and other updates. And please feel free to drop me a line via the CONTACT page.


• J'Oublie
an exclusive short story that takes place between Blood Groove and The Girls with Games of Blood - Read it free!

Coming in July 2010: The Girls with Games of Blood

Listen to what I tell you, son, every word is true
The sisters haunt the night, and might fight over you
Nothing can steal your soul and stamp it in the mud
Like being the new play-pretty for the girls with the games of blood . . .

The old song warns of the beautiful Bolade sisters, Patience and Prudence, whose undying rivalry was said to stretch even beyond the grave. But Count Rudolfo Vladimir Zginski has never heard the song. A suave Continental vampire, staked to death more than sixty years ago, he has risen to stalk the Southern nights of Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1975. Although new to the modern world, he has quickly developed a taste for its hot blood, willing women, and high-speed automobiles.

Yet the seventies are not without their perils, even for so cunning and ruthless a predator. Zginski's insistent pursuit of a cherry 1973 Mach 1 Ford Mustang soon brings him into conflict with a legendary redneck sheriff with a short temper and a big baseball bat. His dangerous fascination with an enticing undead chanteuse and her equally seductive sister, threatens not only his own ageless existence, but that of the small group of modern-day vampires he has grudgingly taken under his wing. Zginski has already escaped limbo once, but can he free himself from the tangled web of the girls who play games of blood?

You can pre-order The Girls with Games of Blood here.

Available now: BURN ME DEADLY (an Eddie LaCrosse novel)

Trailer music: Belthane Fires by Laura Powers, from her album Beyond the Pale. Used by permission.

"Afficianados of tough-guy mysteries will find much to enjoy, and fantasy fans will appreciate the swordplay and the fully realized medieval society Bledsoe has constructed." -- Kirkus Reviews

"This hard-boiled high fantasy with its clever, twisty plot and smart-alecky protagonist is a worthy literary successor to both Fritz Leiber and Rex Stout." --Ekaterina Sedia, author of The Alchemy of Stone.

"Bledsoe keeps me reading from the first page, and I'm always eager for the next installment when the last page is turned." --Charles de Lint

Available now: BLOOD GROOVE

Trailer music: Bottle of Jack by Colleen Grace, from her album The Rosetta Hotel. Used by permission.

"Bram Stoker's Dracula meets The Lost Boys in this gritty tale of vampires in 1970s Memphis." -- Adrian Phoenix, author of A Rush of Wings

"Hot and sticky and tangy as a slab of Memphis ribs. A trippy vamp-noir seventies feed-fest, complete with the requisite sex, drugs and vintage rock." --E.E. Knight, author of the Vampire Earth series.

An edgy, visceral page-turner that had me laughing one moment and shivering the next. Alex Bledsoe is a writer to watch!" --Jeri Smith-Ready, author of Wicked Game and Bad to the Bone

Available now: THE SWORD-EDGED BLONDE (an Eddie LaCrosse novel)

Trailer music: Morrighan's Quest by Laura Powers, from her album Legends of the Goddess. Used by permission.

Available in paperback from Tor Books and first-edition hardcover from Night Shade Books
The Sword-Edged Blonde

"The Sword-Edged Blonde has all the finesse and depth of a great hard-boiled mystery, but takes place in a fully-realized heroic fantasy setting. From start to finish, it's a treat for readers of either genre, and easily one of the better books I've had the pleasure of reading this year. Don't miss this one." --Charles de Lint

"Some writers write funny stuff. Some writers write funny characters. With The Sword-Edged Blonde, Alex Bledsoe has written a compelling story with fascinating characters -- who are so witty and whose attitude is so wry that I laughed AND cared. That's real comedy, folks, the hardest kind of fiction to write, and Bledsoe brings it off with panache." -- Orson Scott Card

"Sam Spade with a sword: utterly unique, often hilarious and with moments of great heart, The Sword-Edged Blonde serves up a damned good read." --Virginia Baker, author of Jack Knife