John C. Prejean Sr / The Author

Welcome to Wild West Catholic

WWCP / The Company

I've always loved a great story — from Lonesome Dove to The Odyssey. Stories are what make life come alive; in a lot of ways, life itself is just one long story.

I picked up my first Louis L'Amour novel and knew someday I wanted to write my own Western fiction. Forty-plus years later, after a sign came to me while I was praying in front of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe at my church, I started writing my first novel. It's no ordinary Western — my Catholic faith is woven into every part of it.

That first book is El Cobrador (The Collector), the opening novel in the Robichaux series. I've also written a few short stories, which you can find on this site.

My hope is simple: bring back the love of Western fiction, weave in the Christian faith without being preachy, and most of all, help people fall in love with reading again.

For a new author, finding a publisher can be intimidating, to say the least. There are so many options out there, so many companies promising this and that — and when you actually research them, you find underdelivered promises and less-than-stellar reviews.

So what's a person to do?

Then it hit me: You've run your own business before. Do it again.

Sounds simple enough. Except I didn't know the first thing about publishing. But there's no better time to learn than the present — and no better material to learn on than my own.

And that's how Wild West Catholic Publishing, LLC got started.