The first in this week’s “5 Questions, 5 Authors” e-interviews is with author Rick Reed. Reed’s most recent published work includes a thriller about a serial killer using a gay hookup website to find his victims called IM (Quest Books, May 2007); a tragic vampire love story set in 1950s Greenwich Village and modern-day Chicago called In the Blood (Quest Books, September 2007); and a paranormal page-turner about a psychic reluctantly caught up in the murders of two teenage girls in her small western Pennsylvania town called Deadly Vision (Quest Books, January 2008). Other published novels include A Face Without a Heart (a modern-day version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray), Penance, and Obsessed. Reed’s horror short story collection, Twisted: Tales of Obsession and Terror was published in April 2006. Upcoming novels include a sexy thriller called High Risk (Amber Quill Press, February 2008); a reincarnation love story called Orientation (Amber Quill Press, Spring 2008); and Dead End Street, a young adult novel about five teenagers who form a Halloween Horror Club (Amber Quill Press, October 2008). Rick currently lives in Miami, FL with his partner.


1. What drives you to write?

A battered 2001 Nissan Sentra.


2. What do you consider to be your most significant accomplishment?

Learning to turn my neuroses and obsessions into dark fiction.


3. Outside of writing, what are your other passions/interests?

Reading, of course, travel, film, theater…it all boils down to a love of stories.


4. What is your advice to young writers/first time authors?

Take up accounting; it’s a lot more practical and, for the most part, pays way better.


5. What do you want the world to remember you for the most?

That I was kind to my mother.


For more information about Rick Reed and his work, please visit http://www.rickrreed.com.

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