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!
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 |
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The Goodall Manifest
Available at Amazon.com She’d quelled the mutiny. Discovered the murderer. She’d even brought in Van der Ryn so he could pay for his crimes. She’d kept everyone alive when they probably should have died. Except for Leichter. And Praetor. And Running Wolf. She’d saved the cat, damn it! How could she have ended up back where she'd started? Book two in the Goodall series of science fiction mysteries. |
Ill Met by Moonlight
Available at Amazon.com Trees don’t walk. But here they do. In ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT they walk, they kill, they eat people, and then they— Nope. Telling you more would spoil the fun. Welcome to this horror collection about the walking macadamia nut trees of Hawaii. Believe it or not, you’re going to laugh. A new addition to the humorous horror genre. Enjoy. |
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Truepenny
Available at Amazon.com The braver the mouse, the better the supper. Not every house cat’s slogan, but Paw Paw likes them feisty. Cats eat mice, you know; even in stories. Inspired by a true story, this is the oddly endearing tale of how an old housecat becomes the BFF of the young mouse Truepenny, and of how their lives are changed forever by their adventures. |
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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
Available at Amazon.com For your consideration--six devilishly twisted tales. For those who like them quirky. |
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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