Hisses and Wings

Alex Bledsoe grew up in west Tennessee an hour north of Graceland and twenty minutes from Nutbush. He's been a reporter, editor, photographer and door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. He now lives between two big lakes in Wisconsin, writes before six in the morning and tries to teach his two sons to act like they've been to town before. He's published more than fifty short stories on topics as diverse as big-game hunters, mermaids, modern witches, Victorian gentlemen and country musicians. The Sword-Edged Blonde is his first novel.

Teresa Frohock had a very exciting life when she was young. Through no fault or habit of her own, she survived escapades that would have destroyed a lesser mortal. Now she lives a quiet life in Reidsville, N.C. with her beautiful husband and daughter and their four cats.

Her days are spent at her job in the library. Her nights, however, are devoted to stepping over the threshold into darkness where she exorcises her demons by turning them into words.