I came up with the idea of a sort of mid-brow entertainment over a decade back. I think it started out as an idea for a TV show. I had been at some filmmaking workshop and was called upon to come up with a pitch on the spot. I hate those sorts of exercises. Anyway, I pitched The Cucuy Club. A lighthearted series about two guys who live in San Antonio and write a blog about the folktales of the Southwest. The hook is, as they investigate firsthand stories, they find themselves on the hunt for, perhaps, real monsters. A sort of Kolchak the Night Stalker in San Antonio, or a Chicano X-Files.

I had already spun a few tales that fit within this general conceit. Produced a few short films. And I wrote quite a few short stories featuring these characters (these stories have been woven together into a novel (as yet unpublished) titled Tales of Lost Southtown).

Back in November of 2017 I decided to sign up for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). The plan was to hammer out, in a month, a first draft of a Cucuy Club novel. It went so well, I kept going. In December I wrote a first draft of a second novel. And January, I did the same for a third novel.

I guess that’s my way of procrastinating. Write another book instead of editing the last one. I really don’t like to edit.

But, I dug in and did just that. For much of 2018 I edited and polished those novels. I decided to self publish through Amazon’s KDP service.

With little fanfare (I dislike marketing even more than editing), I published the first ebook in early December of this year.

Here’s the cover I designed using the wonderful painting I commissioned from Raul Servin.

The book is available from Amazon. Click HERE, or on the image above to purchase it.