Ginger the Buddha Cat
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Hi folks – Frank here!
Thank you so much for reading my book, I do hope you enjoyed it! If you did, I’d love it if you could leave a few words as a review. Not only are reviews crucial in getting an author’s work noticed, but I personally love reviews and I read them all!
I’d also love it if you checked out the first book in the Ginger series – the award winning Ginger the Gangster Cat. Not to mention (though I just did!) my more ‘adult’ travel memoirs: Too Young to be Old: From Clapham to Kathmandu, Kevin and I in India, and Rupee Millionaires. You can find the links at: http://frankkusybooks.weebly.com/
Oh, and if you like reading memoirs, there’s a really cool Facebook group called ‘We Love Memoirs’. Drop in to chat to me and lots of other authors and readers here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/welovememoirs/
P.S. Here’s where you can find me on Twitter:
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And if you get the urge, you can always email me:
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Acknowledgements
Prrrrps! and thanks go to Cherry Gregory (for ideas and editing), Terry Murphy (for formatting, editing and laughs), Roman Laskowski (for edits and web admin), Anna Donovan (for my fab cover), and to all the good people on Authonomy who have helped with crits and comments. Sossidges all round!
About the author
FRANK KUSY is a rather fat Buddhist who likes playing bridge with little old ladies and writing silly stories about cats.
He wrote his first cat book when he was eight. It was called 'Jessie the Cat' and even his mum liked it. There followed 'Toad's Dilemma' (a sequel to Frank's all time fave kid's book, 'The Wind in the Willows') and a whole host of similarly derivative anthropomorphic masterpieces. Only after a short affair with journalism in his 20's did he write anything with a human being in it (the Financial Times insisted upon it), and only after he went to India, aged 30, did he stop writing about cats (he only saw one in India).
Frank's first published book (1986) was a travelogue on India – now re-released here on Grinning Bandits as Kevin and I in India. 'I wrote it to avoid having to return to a mind-numbing job in Social Services.' There followed a slew of Asian travel guides – India, Thailand, Burma, Indonesia etc – but none of them paid very much and the last one gave him a ten-year writing block: he simply couldn't decide which Delhi hotel had the best bathroom, the Taj Intercontinental or the Oberoi.
Frank returned to writing after breaking his leg in 2005 – his wife nagged him into it. And the first thing they penned together was...another cat book. Thus came into being 'Ginger the Gangster Cat', the story of one fat cat's devotion to Spanish cuisine. For anyone interested, Sparky – their 5-year old perennial kitten and Ginger's shy and nervous sidekick – is real. He really is the cutest cat in the universe. Ginger himself is a composite of every stray tom-cat Frank has had in the past, absolute terrors all of them!
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