A Book Publisher Specializing in One Central Texas AuthorWe 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. |
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Rix Café Texican Notes
We have two audio books of my work now, and are busy working on a third. BABY SINGS THE BOOS, priced really reasonably (because it's short) and THE COWBOY'S BABY. Carol Herman is the narrator for THE COWBOY'S BABY and Steve Cook is the narrator for BABY SINGS THE BOOS. Both these actors did amazing work making my stories sound even better than they are in print.
Here are the links: http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Baby-Sings-the-Boos-Audiobook/B01DCNGGIQ and http://www.audible.com/pd/Romance/The-Cowboys-Baby-Audiobook/B01E06UF2M |
Books and Short Stories by Gretchen Lee Rix
The Goodall Mutiny
Available in local Lockhart stores and 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. |
The Goodall Manifest
Available in local Lockhart stores and 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. |
The Safari Bride
Available in local Lockhart stores and at Amazon.com Cannibals. Man-eating lions. Crocodiles. Pygmies. Monkeys. Lost Cities. Lots of naked people. Mr. Bryce, the best Great White Hunter of them all, rues the day he ever met one Miss Gafford from Texas. Darkest Africa may never be the same. |
Tea with a Dead Gal
A Boo Done It Mystery Available at Amazon.com How can you run a successful annual Writers' Tea party when your guest author turns up murdered, and when your substitute speaker might be the prime suspect? Think old timey British mystery novel, but set it in Texas and put some barbecue in it. |
Talking To The Dead Guys:
A Boo Done It Mystery 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. |
The Cowboy’s Baby
Available at Amazon.com Goats are heavily involved. And a lot of toilet paper. Throw the cowboy's baby into the mix and this modern take on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale becomes a romantic comedy of errors about accepting love where you find it. |
The Cowboy's Baby
Goes to Heaven Available at Amazon.com The second in The Cowboy's Baby series, is a story about taking chances, seeing people for who they are, and one very, very stubborn bull. |
Truepenny
Available at Amazon.com 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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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.
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.
You can read more on her blog at gretchenrix.com or her facebook page.
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