Interview with Crime Writer Rea Frey: S. 7, Ep. 7 The Crime Cafe

Debbi Mack interviews crime writer Rea Frey.



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Debbi: Hi, everyone. My guest today is the author of several novels, as well as the CEO and founder of Writeway, where basically you get to learn about the publishing industry before you get into this crazy business. Let's see. She lives in Nashville with her husband, daughter, and three wild animals. We'll have to talk about the wild animals too. I'm pleased introduce my guest, Rea Frey. Hi, Rea.



Rea: Hello.



Debbi: It's so good to have you here.



Rea: It's so nice to be here. Thanks for having me.



Debbi: Sure thing. I got to say, I love your website so much. It's so clever and pretty. And I like the photo on the homepage with you holding those books that are dripping paint or something.



Rea: Yeah.



Debbi: I mean, it seems to be a metaphor of some kind.



Rea: Yes, we could say it's a metaphor for so many different things, but yeah, it was a fun site to put together.



Debbi: Yeah. Yeah. It's great. It's wonderful. I like it. And I like the idea of your show, your podcast, but we'll get into that in a second.



Debbi: Tell us first about your books. How would you describe your writing? Is it domestic suspense, thriller?



Rea: Yeah. It's domestic suspense, which, in all honesty, when my debut novel came out, Not Her Daughter, and they told me I was in the domestic suspense genre, I was like, "What is that? What is domestic suspense?" I wasn't aiming to write in a genre, but I always like to say I write things that basically scare the shit out of parents. I love to kind of take that worst case scenario, because I'm a parent, and really play out those fears, whether it's kidnapping, a guardian dies, someone disappears. I love playing with that and playing with morality a little bit. So I'm definitely more relationship-based instead of, you know, straight thrillers, but I technically do fall in that domestic suspense category.



I wasn't aiming to write in a genre, but I always like to say I write things that basically scare the shit out of parents. I love to kind of take that worst case scenario,