A. J. García

I love stories that draw me in, move me, and make me think. The kind that let me guess what might happen, change my mind along the way, and, just when I think I’ve figured it all out, surprise me with something I never saw coming. As a reader, that’s what I look for. And as a writer, that’s what I hope to offer you.

My relationship with stories began long before I published a book. One day, as a child, I picked up a pencil and started writing in a notebook. I loved imagining other worlds and couldn’t stop filling page after page. Then came the typewriter and, at fourteen, my first novel. The publisher I sent it to turned it down. At eighteen, I wrote another, which I still keep tucked away on a shelf in my bookcase as a reminder of those early days.

Life eventually took me in a different direction. I pursued a career in information systems, and many years passed before I returned to writing novels. When I found my way back, I published with a small publishing house. The future of the technology industry was beginning to look uncertain, and I saw an opportunity in my books that I wanted to explore. Later, I discovered that Amazon offered a way to reach readers directly. That was when I wrote the first version of EL DON DE RACHEL, the novel that earned me my first income as a writer.

Today, I write mystery, suspense, psychological thrillers, science fiction, and drama. I’m interested in what happens when people face situations that force them to question what they thought they knew, and how they change when the beliefs they once relied on begin to crumble.

But beyond genres, there’s something that matters to me most: I want you to become immersed in the story, feel for the characters, try to anticipate their choices, and care about what happens to them. And, of course, I want you to reach the final page and find something you didn’t expect.

More than telling you about the books I’ve published or what I may have accomplished with them, I’d like you to get to know what lies behind each story: the reader I once was, the writer I am today, and my desire to keep surprising myself—and you.

When I write, I’m still that same reader, searching for a different kind of story.