About Dragón

"Carlos Castañeda meets kanji hunting in a rollicking adventure. Written in García's signature style, dense, humorous, and linguistically rich, this epic journey of discovery, transformation and destiny will keep readers at the edge of their seats and gasping at every new twist."

— David Bowles

Award-winning author of Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico

"R. Ch. Garcia is a master of speculative fiction best known for his international award-winning book, Closet of Discarded Dreams. He may not have the same household name recognition as Stephen King or J.K. Rowling, but he should. His writing is powerfully evocative, lyrically descriptive, rollicking, rolling, smart yet down-to-earth, authentic and as unpretentious as anything of beauty on public display could possibly be. Yes, we are dealing with two shape-shifting, elusive dragons who have butchered their way through ancient New World civilizations, but in Garcia’s hands, this is the classic story of a seeker, a shaman’s acolyte who pits his humanity against the infernal supernatural, all told in language beyond what the Kings and Rowlings of the genre can do: poetic, double-entendred, witty, outrageously funny and ironic, soul-stirring, and interwoven with idioms, Aztec chants and Nahuatl healings spoken in the mists of ancient wisdom. The characters are unforgettable, diverse, with iconoclastic heroes and everyone else smashing stereotypes."

– Thelma T. Reyna

Author of Dearest Papa: A Memoir in Poems

"R. Ch. García’s novel is like a Mexican corrido, an epic ballad usually set to music, a hero’s personal journey as he faces dangers, tribulations, and monsters, human or savage. And so much more. Crisp lyrical prose throughout the story provides the musical background in this two-part fantastic novel: A young man’s quest for his bilingual bicultural heritage; a need to find the magic and meaning missing in his life lead him to enchanting Northern New Mexico first, then finally to old Mexico.  Miguel’s teachers are shamans--all men. But his guides through underground mazes, busy streets, and forests, traditions, the knowledge of life and death, the cultures, to understand with the heart first, then the mind—those teachers are women. This novel will remain on my reading table to enjoy again and again. Felicidades y aplausos, R. Ch. García. Encore!”

— Lucha Corpi

Author of the Gloria Damasco Mystery series

"A true Hero's Journey, intriguing, unique. I particularly liked the saturation of Mexican culture."

– Robin D. Owens

Award-winning paranormal author of the HeartMate, Luna and Mystic Circle series

"Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub will take you on a thrilling journey of discovery with protagonist Miguel Reilly, a teenager on summer break between high school and college. Miguel, in choosing to explore Mexican pre-Columbian anthropology, meets New Mexican shaman Tomás who sets the boy on an eccentric trajectory, his orbits spinning him closer and closer to an epic encounter with the ancient and legendary dragon, La Muerte Blanca, “Eater of Hearts,” in Tenochtitlán, the primeval heart of Mexico. Join Miguel and his allies in this mature, young-adult speculative-fiction novel, a life-and-death search that, if successful, will save the inhabitants of Planet Earth….at least for five hundred more years. A delightful story poetically written and charged with the life-force of youth. The fact is, I loved Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub!”

— Daniel Acosta

Author of the award-winning YA historical novel, Iron River

"Composed in a tantalizing style of Chicano sci-fi-mythology, Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub follows a young man's journey, reflecting on the meaning of his bicultural life in a country that erased all spirituality and people before the colonization in the 1600s. Miguel Reilly encompasses the realities of most pochos of all backgrounds trying to find their place in this nation while challenging the rites of passage in masculinity, the american dream, and ancestral healing. From a literary and contemporary point of view, Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub by R. Ch. Garcia intersects an echoing voice from the past with a new style of the present, provocatively transforming and retelling U.S. history."

— Sarah Rafael García

Author of SanTana's Fairy Tales & founder of LibroMobile

Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub displays R. Ch. Garcia’s capacity to weave a magical tapestry of Latino lore into something innovatively refreshing. He brings to life an exciting literary world where each page is an alluring incantation that can only be brought into existence by an esoteric mago of the highest order. A spellbinding novel – one you dare not miss! A BRILLIANT work.

— Boris Novak

Filmmaker/Screenwriter at DarkHatterFilms