Tag Archives: The Samurai

2024 Week 13: Winners are grinners (hopefully).

COMPETITION NEWS! Congratulations to Jill and Anon who entered the DCM Ishmael competition via the comments. A copy of the new edition will be coming to each of you shortly. As well as that, two more copies will be heading … Continue reading

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2024 Week 9: Dedicated to the Dedicatees – PART 2.

Back in Week 7 I wrote about the people and stories behind the dedications in my Young Adult or Older Readers books, so now let’s look at my Younger Readers and Picture Books dedications. JUST A DOG – 2010: Quite … Continue reading

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blog 96: In which I meet SHINTARO!!!!!!!!!! and live/love to tell the tale.

If you were a kid like me growing up in Australia in the 60s you would probably remember a very popular TV show from Japan called The Samurai which featured a samurai warrior named Shintaro Akikusa and his Iga Ninja side-kick Tombei the Mist. Maybe … Continue reading

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blog 85: In which October and a bit of November get the once over.

Here’s a quick recap of some of the major happenings in my life over the past couple of months. You may or may not know it (it’s sure to be one or the other) but I’m a big fan of the … Continue reading

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