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Kyra Sundance Revealed
About Kyra Sundance
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What is your birthdate?:7/20
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Previous occupations:I'm a stunt dog team performer. My background is in computers, and I used to be a Technology Mgr.
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Favorite job:Stunt Dog Team performer! Woohoo!
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High school and/or college:UCLA
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Name of your favorite composer or music artist?:Anything current.
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Favorite movie:Lawrence of Arabia. "Nothing is written"
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Favorite television show:I do watch TV, but nothing seems worthwile enough to list as my fave.
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. "Dogs Rule, Cats Drool!" (Sorry, written by Chalcy)
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. Do More With Your Dog!®
- Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
- A. Finishing a manuscript
- Q. What’s your greatest fear?
- A. Making a typo on this website, and having my editor catch it. (She catches ERVYTHING!)
- Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
- A. My home on my ranch. I absolutely love it there.
- Q. Which living person do you most admire?
- A. Stephen Hawking. I'm fascinated by physics and quantum mechanics.
- Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?
- A. Leave it! Git! Get outta the trash!
- Q. What do you regret most?
- A. That typo on page 87.
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. The ability to shoot lasers from my eyes
- Q. What is your greatest achievement?
- A. A command performance for the King of Morocco in Marrakech
- Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
- A. Geez, you expect me to let that cat out of the bag?
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. Hmm... so many to choose from...
- Q. What trait is most noticeable about you?
- A. People tell me I have a big smile :-) Or is it a big mouth... I can't remember
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero?
- A. I always had a thing for Tarzan
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
- A. Ooh... villains... boo!
- Q. If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her?
- A. "Dude, you won't BELIEVE the stuff we invented in the future!"
- Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?
- A. Cleaning them up! I hate when my pet pees in the house!
- Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
- A. Dog mushing!
- Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
- A. I'm livin' it! I'm a professional Stunt Dog Team performer. How fun is that!
- Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?
- A. A good head on your shoulders, a defined moral compass, and initiative
- Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?
- A. Salsa. Seriously, it's the perfect sustanance. It's a food, it's a drink... maybe a few chips to sprinkle in it, and I'm set.
- Q. What are your 5 favorite songs?
- A. DJ Oetzi "Live is Life," Ting Tings "That's Not My Name," Belle & Sebastian "Monkeys are Breaking Out the Zoo"
On Books and Writing
- Q. Who are your favorite authors?
- A. Dr. Bruce Fogle, Patricia McConnell, Jack Kerouac
- Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
- A. Write something that you know better than anyone else. Don't rehash what's already out there.
- Q. What comment do you hear most often from your readers?
- A. How did Chalcy become so devoted to you?
- Q. How did you come to write Dog Rules?
- A. I wrote a successful book called "101 Dog Tricks" which had step-by-step instructions for teaching every one of the tricks. That's A LOT of steps! By the end of my writing, I felt like telling the reader "look, I'm just describing the same handful of concepts over and over, with different details. Just learn the concepts, and you'll be able to figure out the details on your own." So in my next book, I wrote the concepts! And that's how The Dog Rules was born.
