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A Goodreads user asked Kendare Blake:

Hi, I love your books!! I'm really hoping that you will write more! Not sure if this hasn't been asked before, but in Anna Dressed In Blood (and the Girl of Nightmares, actually) what inspired you in writing the scenes where Cas goes into Anna's basement, or in the second book, when the characters walk through the suicide forest? I love you way you wrote them, and was just wondering how you came up with them.

Kendare Blake Thank you! I am indeed writing more. I have THREE DARK CROWNS coming out next year!

Scene inspirations: well, the Suicide Forest in Girl of Nightmares was inspired by the real Suicide Forest in Japan. I couldn't get Cas & Co to Japan, so I moved it to Scotland, but it was essentially the same place. As for the basement, I just wanted to write a lot of bodies, submerged like alligators.

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