Fun Five: Kendare Blake

Aug 15, 2011 by shanyn

Fun Five
Kendare Blake

Author of Anna Dressed in Blood

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1. If you could have an endless supply of one restaurant’s food in your refrigerator, which would you pick?
I thought there was no way to answer this question. How could I limit myself to only ONE restaurant’s endless supply? And then I realized that I should just pick a random five star restaurant, because they are always getting new stuff and inventing new dishes and they cannot be bothered about the price. Of course if you think this is a cheat answer, then I’d have to go with….Red Lobster. Which is probably dumb of me because I am allergic to shellfish. But mmmm. Cheesy. Garlic. Biscuits.

2. What percentage of your shoes have shoelaces?
And now you whip out the math. Dammit, I’m a writer, not a Scientologist. Breaking it down: out of seven pairs of shoes, two have laces. Not counting my ice hockey skates.

3. Tell us about your longest spontaneous road trip.
What do you consider spontaneous? Just jump in the car and go? Because in that case, it would be this one time, when my friend and I were bored, and we wrote directions down on scraps of paper, and got in the car. Every two minutes we had to draw a scrap from a hat, and do what it said, whether that be “take the next right” or “buy something from the nearest visible store” or “whip a U-ee”. This resulted in a strange occurrence of turtle rescuing, in which we pulled over and ran back down the road 500 feet or so, before realizing we were trying to save a rock. What? It totally looked like a turtle. My friend swore she made eye contact with it.

4. Describe your favorite television show without naming the title or the characters.
Sometimes strange things happen. Things that you can’t explain. A building is shaken on its foundation, and going inside you find everyone dead, but strangely mutated. It appears that they’ve sprouted extra arms, or in some cases an extra head. But it’s not a new head so much as their head. Just another one. This is because our world isn’t the only world. There are parallel universes existing alongside, and occasionally, the barriers between them rip. When they do, it’s up to this kickass female FBI agent and her hunky post-teen drama partner to figure it out, with some help from his lunatic genius father who sometimes tests red spots on his necktie after an autopsy by licking it. Good thing it was raspberry jam.

5. Invent a new cereal cartoon spokesperson and tell us his/her name and characteristics.
For this question, I am going to invent a new spokesperson for Frosted Flakes. As you know, Frosted Flakes is delicious. And Tony the Tiger has done it justice for years. But he just isn’t brand specific enough. So, I give to you, his niece, Miss Tonya Tigress. Preliminary sketches portray her as slinky and sassy, with four inch spiked claws and bleached out stripes. She’s also a tad on the skinny side. Tonya spends most of her time finding new boys to buy her more diamonds, which she wears constantly. That’s right folks, she’s frosted. And flaky. She would be voiced by….Hannah Montana.

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More about Anna Dressed in Blood:
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father’s mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn’t expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he’s never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas’s life.

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