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  • Published: 15 July 2003
  • ISBN: 9780345463333
  • Imprint: Random House Worlds
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $35.00
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Fat White Vampire Blues



He’s undead, overweight, and can’t get a date

Vampire, nosferatu, creature of the night—whatever you call him—Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood of people who consume the fattiest diet in the world, Jules is thankful he can’t see his reflection in a mirror. When he turns into a bat, he can’t get his big ol’ butt off the ground.

What’s worse, after more than a century of being undead, he’s watched his neighborhood truly go to hell—and now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out altogether. See, Jules had always been an equal opportunity kind of vampire. And while he would admit that the blood of a black woman is sweeter than the blood of a white man, Jules never drank more than his fair share of either. Enter Malice X . Young, cocky, and black, Malice warns Jules that his days of feasting on sisters and brothers are over. He tells Jules he’d better confine himself to white victims—or else face the consequences. And then, just to prove he isn’t kidding, Malice burns Jules’s house to the ground.

With the help of Maureen, the morbidly obese, stripper-vampire who made him, and Doodlebug, an undead cross-dresser who (literally) flies in from the coast—Jules must find a way to contend with the hurdles that life throws at him . . . without getting a stake through the heart. It’s enough to give a man the blues.

  • Published: 15 July 2003
  • ISBN: 9780345463333
  • Imprint: Random House Worlds
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

Andrew Fox

Andrew Fox was born in 1964 and grew up in
North Miami Beach, Florida. He attended Loyola
University in New Orleans, where he studied social
work and wrote a fantasy play for visually-handi-
capped children that involved the audience rubbing
their hands on a vaseline-coated foam rubber mer-
maid's tail and sniffing spoiled sardines. He has
worked as manager of the Louisiana Commodity
Supplemental Food Program, a federally-funded
monthly nutrition program for low-income senior
citizens. In 1995, following the death of his cousin
in the French Quarter on New Year's Eve due to a
falling bullet, he helped found the New Year Coali-
tion, an advocacy group that helps educate the pub-
lic about the dangers of celebratory gunfire. Also in
1995, he joined a monthly writing workshop found-
ed by award-winning SF author George Alee
Effinger.

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