A collection of the serious and silly sayings of the legendary Gandry Macallan, that great and admired ‘person of all persuasions’, in visual format. Memes you can them nowadays… the page recently opened on facebook and my articles website.
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His wisdom, quips and observations on everything under the sun… and a few things under the sea. The image is the same in each case, but the words are different. Oh yes.

What a guy! What a wit! What sideburns!

Check out and LIKE his facebook page folks, just set up recently and already full of serious and silly sayings by the lad himself:
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And on my articles website:
https://radicalfun.weebly.com/sayings-of-the-legendary-gandry-macallan.html

Sometimes my publishers tell me not to respond to negative reviews because it just makes you look defensive. 
But when someone write something utter bollocks, gives it a one star and this damages the rep of a good book (because various folk will believe the crap) then my defensive walls go up and out come the cannon. Here is my reaction to a review of our SECRETS OF THE NINJA book on Amazon that was wrong on almost every point:

Hi, im the writer of the book and what you say here is incorrect in a various ways. 
1. You say "The book tittle successfully tricked me to buy this book."...The title is not meant to be a trick in any way. Its a clear description of the actual contents. The things discussed in it were ninja secrets then, and they come directly from a book, the Shinobi Hiden, written around 1560, which was translated into English by experts connected with our book.
2. You say "there is a disclaimer in the book stating the secret ninja teaching may or may not from Hattori Hanzo." - that applies to ALL such work connected to the Shinobi hiden, since historical research has been unable to confirm that he definitely wrote the book. It is thought that he did, presumed so, but researchers are not sure. It is in no way a trick related to this specific book, that is a point of honesty in historical research. You make that honesty sounds like evasion.
3."the short story in the book has nothing to do with Hattori Hanzo. " - each of the techniques that the ninja go into is based on real techniques from the Shinobi Hiden. IF Hattori Hanzo wrote that, as is assumed, then the contents are directly from his ideas, right? 
4. "The book content also so shallow in term of what so called ninja tricks" - since they are REAL ninja techniques from a respected book of shinobi ninja, then how can they be shallow? 
Though you are right on ONE aspect, they are not new. They come from the 16thC and before.
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Ya eejit.

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Ninja-Shinobi-Teachings-Hattori/dp/1583948643/ref=cm_cr_othr_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

We had a good event at Lakeland University in Tokyo recently. About 50 people came to my talk about learning history via manga/comics. I went into how comics are a good way of learning about 'serious' subjects such as history. And how this is a useful way to get over the quite incorrect idea that 'history is boring and difficult' which we often come up against.

I also introduced our new book there, Kodansha's billingual book, 'Saigo Takamori and the Seinan Senso', which was coming out the next day . We had a history quiz, just for fun and the audience asked some great questions after. Then about a dozen of us had a drink at a Scottish themed bar nearby. And fish. And chips.

A good evening all round.