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Category: The Blackwood Crusade

Those Precious Good Reviews

Writers crave good reviews even more than they crave chocolate cake or a really fantastic pen. This is the first one I got, dug up from the archives…

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A Tatty Book is a Lovely Thing

My favourite books bear the scars of my love, so it was wonderful to see a tatty Blackwood Crusade in the school library.

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The Blackwood Crusade Book

The song from ‘The Blackwood Crusade’ by Jo Danilo

So awesome to hear that my lovely Blackwood book is still sending out ripples and appearing in dreams! I remember … More

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Getting Praised for Daydreaming

When somebody totally gets what you were trying to say, understands how your world works, and bonds with characters you gave birth to, it’s like a little bit of sparkly magic.

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Love Advice from The Blackwood Crusade

‘Do Not Mistake Love for Happiness…’

“You have two paths, Catalina. The first will give you the smallest taste of something that you can never have, but something so divine that the very memory is enough to drive you mad for the rest of your life. Or you can leave now.”

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Sheep Rescue from The Blackwood Crusade

Begging Letter #4: Tree-Climbing Sheep

In which Dr Williams comes across another strange petition in the intriguing medieval Blackwood archives…

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Can a Witch REALLY Turn You into a Toad?

Concerning a bizarre claim by a Mr Warren of Lesser Crocklington in 1331.

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Drunken Soldier from The Blackwood Crusade

Begging Letter #3: What shall we do with the Drunken Soldier?

In which Dr Williams comes across another strange petition in the Blackwood archives…

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The Origin of Cool from The Blackwood Crusade

The Surprising Origin of ‘COOL!’

The word ‘cool’ (as a way of saying ‘splendid’) has been around for longer than most people think. It all started at the royal court of Edward I…

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The Long Lost Secret to Good Fairy Cake

Why you’ll never be able to perfect that recipe, no matter how hard you try…

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