A Book Publisher Specializing in One Central Texas Author
We know. RIX CAFE TEXICAN sounds like a restaurant, but it isn't. It's a very small publishing company. So small, we only publish one writer. Me. Gretchen Lee Rix when I'm writing romances, and Gretchen Rix for when I'm writing mysteries, weird Westerns, short stories, science fiction, fantasy, action-adventure, and someday, pirate tales. My sister Roxanne Rix is the other half of our publishing venture.
The name is an homage to one of my favorite movies, Casablanca. As in Rick's Cafe American. Fulfilled one of my childhood ambitions with this name. And it only took five years, but finally we don't get calls from people wanting to sell us credit card machines and restaurant equipment.
E-books of my novels and stories are available through the usual suspects.
Our covers are by Streetlight Graphics. Indeed, the bull, dog, and zombie in tulips scene over there is the original background digital painting for Baby Sings the Boos.
The name is an homage to one of my favorite movies, Casablanca. As in Rick's Cafe American. Fulfilled one of my childhood ambitions with this name. And it only took five years, but finally we don't get calls from people wanting to sell us credit card machines and restaurant equipment.
E-books of my novels and stories are available through the usual suspects.
Our covers are by Streetlight Graphics. Indeed, the bull, dog, and zombie in tulips scene over there is the original background digital painting for Baby Sings the Boos.
Rix Café Texican Notes
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We have ten audio books of my work now. The last one has just been released. ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT masterfully narrated by Emmy-award winning actor Bill Oberst Jr, seen here. You don't want to miss this one. He doesn't just read the stories, he brings them to life.
Here is the link (just add my audio titles into the search feature): www.audible.com |
Books by Gretchen Lee Rix
Romance, adventure, and a splash of humor
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Books and Short Stories by Gretchen Rix
Mysteries, weird westerns, short stories, science fiction, fantasy, action-adventure, and someday, pirate tales
LATEST RELEASE!
BROWNER Available at Kobo.com When an irascible San Antonio P.I. attracts the wrong kind of attention from a family of cops, his whole life changes in an instant. They love him. Think he's cute. He's not. At least, he wasn't. BROWNER, another mystery novel by G.L. Rix, picks up where BROWN started. Warning! Kangaroo ahead! |
BROWN
Available at Amazon.com Physical Appearance / Demeanor: BEAR (that’s grizzly - consider yourself warned) Occupation: Private Dick Clients: • San Antonio’s Finest • Notorious Gang Boss • Hitmen • World-Renowned Artists • Olmos Elementary School entire third grade class BROWN: PRIVATE EYE - At Your Service |
The Goodall (Books 1-3)
Available at Kobo.com Joan Chikage is a young and untested lieutenant on the deep space cargo ship Goodall. Follow this burgeoning heroine's adventures through this sci-fi trilogy of mystery, mutiny, murder, and betrayal. Will she rise to the occasion and save the captain whose respect she's sought all along, or will she die trying? |
The Goodall Marauders
Available at Amazon.com All that stands between Captain Carmady and an exceptionally ugly death is his First Lieutenant Joan Chikage. And she will not budge. The Goodall Marauders, book three in the Goodall series of science fiction mysteries. |
The Goodall Mutiny
Available at Amazon.com All the normal sounds usually reaching the lower decks of the USS Goodall during routine subspace flight have just been cut off. Marooned, with failing systems and inexperienced officers, the dangerously dysfunctional crew must fight to survive. Could surviving be a fate worse than death? First in the Goodall series of science fiction mysteries. |
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Talking to the Dead Guys:
A Boo Done It Mystery (Vol. 1) Available at Amazon.com Shoot! I'll cut right to the chase. This is about how my sister's mastiff Boo Radley dragged me off my feet during the damned cemetery tour in Lockhart right onto a dead corpse. And that's just chapter one. |
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The Return of Truepenny
Available at Amazon.com This second in a series sees the return of the beautiful, brave and resourceful mouse Truepenny into the Scheherazade-like tales of her BFF Paw Paw the housecat. |
Baby Sings the Boos
Available at Amazon.com In each of these original Boo and Baby stories from the author of The Cowboy's Baby and Talking To The Dead Guys, something always goes wrong. These tales introduce you to two of the quirkiest animals that Texas has ever seen. |
Arroyo
Available at Amazon.com An angel of God who can't remember his purpose. Two legendary lovers. Three strangers unite, battling one another and the ancient menace one carries unknowingly on her back into the West Texas arroyo. not your grandfather's sort of western. |
Saints & Sinners
Available at Amazon.com Passengers party like hell, no thoughts of the future. What's so bad about spending the rest of time immemorial on a cruise ship, someone asks? Find the answer in this black comedy short story. |
The Taking of Rhinoceros 456
Available at Amazon.com Something mysterious goes on after hours at the San Antonio Daedalus Memorial Zoo. Myths live here. Mother Earth, for one. When the rhinos vanish, Steve the bum finds a talking dog. Maybe. Oddball whimsy combined with a puzzle. |
When Gymkhana Smiles
Available at Amazon.com This young black girl's survival depends on her dental health; yours on keeping out of her way. Whether you like your horror stories nasty or merely scary, this one leaves your teeth on edge. |
Twisted Rixter
Six devilishly twisted tales. For those who like them quirky. Fantasy, horror, offbeat. Available at all the usual sites |
For your consideration: A horror novel set in the
Piney Woods of East Texas near the town of Palestine where a train has mysteriously stalled. It’s 1885. The snow has finally stopped and the train’s twelve passengers have just begun to realize they’re in deep trouble. There’s something out there and it’s calling up at them to be let in. The Buffalo Soldier on board might not be enough to save them, and the legendarily brutal mass murderer he guards is no one’s hero. But it’s not a single hero that’s required. It’s all of them. A Resurrection of Starlings https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NN64X2S/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3NFYSALUPYO25 
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THE WATERMELON PUMP
Available at Amazon.com and the other usual venues It doesn't matter what you are or who you are. It doesn't matter what you think or what your intentions are. It only matters what you do. (And if that doesn't get you interested, there's a pet chicken involved.) |
TIGER TIGER BURNING BRIGHT a haunting
Lumen could not move, but she could let her imagination run riot. So far there had been a David who wasn’t really David, and a Sir Bertram who was a tiger, but the tigers weren’t really tigers, not to mention Taylor Finch, with and without his hand. And a ghost of Rebecca. It always came back to Rebecca. Tigers, tigers everywhere. “Nice kitty. Good kitty.” Lumen couldn’t control the inanities coming out of her mouth, she was so scared. But boy, oh boy, how soft their fur! “It’s not really a tiger,” Rebecca hissed. Or is it? Tiger Tiger Burning Bright a haunting www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5P1LVCN/ |
About Gretchen Lee Rix
KDP author Gretchen Lee Rix reads a lot. She also watches too much television. She writes novels in her spare time, figuring that anyone with such a splendidly boring life as hers would have to have a fantastic imagination.
From this premise Gretchen has concocted the contemporary fairy tale-inspired romantic comedies THE COWBOY'S BABY and THE COWBOY'S BABY GOES TO HEAVEN. There will be a third novel in this series. Sleeping Beauty figures heavily in the first book, Puss in Boots in the second. And believe it or not, both books are romance novels.
The Boo Done It series features the Rix family's American mastiff dog as one of the main characters. TALKING TO THE DEAD GUYS exposes the barbecue capital of Texas (that's Lockhart to everyone else) to murder and mayhem and enough humorous predicaments to make readers laugh out loud. TEA WITH A DEAD GAL is the second in this series. She has plans to write the Boo Done It mystery series until she runs out of ideas. And Lockhart is a very interesting little town.
Gretchen is a member of Romance Writers of America, The Irving Club, and Netflix. ARROYO, her stand-alone venture into the weird western genre, is her second piece of horror writing. WHEN GYMKHANA SMILES, a short story, was her first. Most of her other published short stories fall into the whimsical fantasy category. She also writes as G.L. Rix.
You can read more on her blog at gretchenrix.com or her facebook page.
From this premise Gretchen has concocted the contemporary fairy tale-inspired romantic comedies THE COWBOY'S BABY and THE COWBOY'S BABY GOES TO HEAVEN. There will be a third novel in this series. Sleeping Beauty figures heavily in the first book, Puss in Boots in the second. And believe it or not, both books are romance novels.
The Boo Done It series features the Rix family's American mastiff dog as one of the main characters. TALKING TO THE DEAD GUYS exposes the barbecue capital of Texas (that's Lockhart to everyone else) to murder and mayhem and enough humorous predicaments to make readers laugh out loud. TEA WITH A DEAD GAL is the second in this series. She has plans to write the Boo Done It mystery series until she runs out of ideas. And Lockhart is a very interesting little town.
Gretchen is a member of Romance Writers of America, The Irving Club, and Netflix. ARROYO, her stand-alone venture into the weird western genre, is her second piece of horror writing. WHEN GYMKHANA SMILES, a short story, was her first. Most of her other published short stories fall into the whimsical fantasy category. She also writes as G.L. Rix.
You can read more on her blog at gretchenrix.com or her facebook page.
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