by liam | Jun 14, 2012 | comics, education, literacy, writing news
Love mysteries? Love comics? Love free stuff? Now is your chance to have all three in one giveaway contest. To celebrate the launch of my brand new monthly e-newsletter, Reading Change, I am giving away four signed copies of Max Finder Mystery Collected Casebook...
by liam | Jun 7, 2012 | education, literacy, media, writing news
About a month ago, I was asked to be on the Best Books for for Kids and Teens 2012 committee, for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Which was totally cool. Writers don’t usually get to be on committees. We’re often the ones being committeed....
by liam | Jun 1, 2012 | comics, education, literacy, media, writing news
I’ve been writing mysteries for nearly a decade now, including well over 40 traditional “whodunits” in my Max Finder Mystery comics, several action-adventure mysteries for my Graphic Guide Adventures series and another whodunit, set in a video game...
by liam | May 24, 2012 | comics, education, literacy, media, writing news
Last week, I was thrilled when super librarian Julie Found emailed me to say her students had created a book trailer for Max Finder Mystery: Collected Casebook #4. You can watch it on Julie’s blog: We Found the Library! (great title btw.) I was so happy to see...
by liam | May 10, 2012 | education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, media, video games, virtual worlds
We’ve been running our Minecraft Multi-School Server Project for nearly 5 months now. We’re actually way beyond the mid-point, so I thought I was overdue for giving an update on how things are going. In a word: fantastic. There have been a few frustrating...