August Authors – Poppy Z Brite

For Bee’s Challenge

One Last One For 2025: Author August – Albert Camus & France Galle

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Bee says:

This month I challenge you to share one of your favourite authors every day. As an additional challenge also share a song that connects in some way with that author.

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As I mostly do, I’m featuring a favorite book instead of author. To me, favorite author means I get all their books and wish for more. If I like one book by an author, that doesn’t make them a favorite author, though the book might be.

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This is the final day of Bee’s August Authors & Music challenge. Thanks so much for this fun month, Bee ! I’ve really enjoyed finding books and songs. ❤

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Today I feature the author Poppy Z Brite and her books. I’ve read several, four of which I have this photo of. There is a running theme in these such as Vampires. She’s written many more (Exquisite Corpse, which I read) with different characters and set in and around New Orleans Louisiana, and they mostly concern characters in the food industry, such as chefs and restaurants. I think they are mystery/crime novels. I have not read those. Poppy Z Brite is now known as William J. Martin.

I write my fan fiction story based on the novel, “Lost Souls”. Where she went more with the vampire characters, in my fan fiction I concentrate on the human characters in the town.

Here is the Wiki bio of this author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_Z._Brite

“Lost Souls”

“Drawing Blood”

“Wormwood”

“Love in Vein”

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Here is an AI summary of these books by the author…

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Here’s two cool songs that seem to go with these books, and the bands wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Blonde

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“Bloodletting (the Vampire Song)”, by Concrete Blonde

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“Joey”, by Concrete Blonde

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