Ana Reyes, THE HOUSE IN THE PINES

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews New York Times bestselling author Ana Reyes about her debut, The House in the Pines, a chilling, atmospheric, and unputdownable psychological thriller that involves two inexplicable deaths, an unreliable narrator, hazy memories, and a desire to unlock old secrets. Ana describes her protagonist’s drug abuse, revealing that it paralleled her own struggle with Klonopin withdrawal. She also talks about her lifelong love of thrillers and learning to write one. Finally, she reveals what she is working on next and shares what it was like to be chosen as Reese’s Book Club pick for January!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.5	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Anna Reyes is the author of The House and the Pines, a novel.
1:06.7	Anna has an MFA from Louisiana State University. Her work has appeared in Bodega, P noir, new Delta review, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches creative writing to older adults at Santa Monica College. The House in the Pines is her first novel and was a Reese's book club pick. Anna recently did an event at Zibby's Bookshop, and if you'd like to see some pictures of that, just go to at Zibby's Bookshop on Instagram. Welcome, Anna. Thank you so much for coming on Moms. Don't have time to read books. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Oh, I'm so excited you're here too. Start by telling listeners, please, what your book is about. The House of the Pines is my debut novel. It's a
1:45.7	psychological thriller. And it's about a young woman named Maya who lives in Boston. And she's
1:52.2	trying to move on with her life after a difficult past. And she comes across this viral video
1:58.1	on YouTube of her ex-boyfriend Frank sitting across from a young woman at a
2:03.3	diner who drops dead inexplicably. He never touches her. She just drops dead. And this is
2:09.2	chilling, but what makes it even scarier is that this isn't the first time it's happened.
2:13.9	Seven years ago, Maya's best friend, Aubrey, was also talking to Frank when she dropped dead. And Maya saw this happen. So she's
2:22.2	convinced that he somehow killed both of these women, even though there's no evidence and he never
2:27.1	touched them. And it's not even clear what killed them. There's no weapon. There's no marks on their
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