Featured Interview With Chrys Fey
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am the author of the Disaster Crimes Series, a unique concept blending romance, crimes, and disasters. I also authored Write with Fey: 10 Sparks to Guide You from Idea to Publication. Catch the sparks you need to write, edit, publish, and market your book! I run the Insecure Writer’s Support Group Book Club on Goodreads and am also an editor for Dancing Lemur Press.
I live in Florida and am always on the lookout for hurricanes. I have four cats and three nephews; both keep me entertained with their antics.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I realized I wanted to write by watching my mother pursue publication as a small child. She would write and illustrate children's books at our dining room table.
At the age of twelve, I started my first novel, which flourished into a series I later rewrote at seventeen. Although I had always enjoyed writing, I didn't start writing seriously until a strange finding sparked my imagination. One day, when I was twelve, I was playing with the blades of grass where I sat when my fingers brushed something cold and metallic. Thinking it was a key, or at least something cool, I uncovered it to find a rusted screw with a crooked tip. Well, it might not have been a key, but it acted like one, opening up the door to my imagination. A story rushed in, and I wrote every day, completing a full novel and two more after that. I was on the fourth book in the series when writer's block had me rewriting the series all the way from book one, but I had a blast doing it. Since then, I've written and started many stories.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I read just about any genre, including non-fiction such as memoirs, but my favorite genre is romantic-suspense, the best of the romance and suspense/crime worlds all rolled into one story.
My favorite authors are Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb, Diane Duane, J.K. Rowling, and Janet Evanovich.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Flaming Crimes is Book 4 of the Disaster Crimes series (Hurricane Crimes, Seismic Crimes, Tsunami Crimes, Flaming Crimes). All of the fiery scenes in this story are inspired by my real life when a brush fire nearly took my childhood home. In fact, it got so close that a mere foot of green grass remained on the right side, and the woods all around my house were charred and reduced to ashes. Everything I remember from that flaming day, from a firefighter getting burned, a brush truck getting stuck in the woods behind my house, and one of our cats running outside toward the flames, is in that book, making it that much more exciting and realistic.
BLURB: Beth and Donovan are now happily married, and what Beth wants more than anything is a baby. Her dream of starting a family is put on hold as fires burn dangerously close and Donovan becomes a victim of sabotage.
Donovan escapes what could've been a deadly wreck. Their past enemies have been eliminated, so who is cutting brake lines and leaving bloody messages? He vows to find out, for the sake of the woman he loves and the life they're trying to build.
Amidst a criminal mind game, a fire ignites next to their home. They battle the flames and fight to keep their house safe from the blaze pressing in on all sides, but neither of them expects to confront a psychotic adversary in the middle of the inferno.
Their lives may just go up in flames…
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