by liam | Oct 20, 2015 | Tank & Fizz, writing news
I’ve been sitting on this for far too long and I’m thrilled I can finally announce that Tank & Fizz: The Case of the Slime Stampede has been nominated for a 2016 Silver Birch Express Award! I’m late announcing this only because I’ve spent...
by liam | Feb 16, 2013 | education, literacy, media, writing news
After nearly four months of reading, I’ve made my way through all the books submitted for the 2013 Best Books for Teens Awards from the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. There were close to 30 entries and all of them fine young adult novels. Now that the...
by liam | Sep 30, 2012 | education, literacy, writing news
I’m incredibly honoured that my graphic novel Power Play is nominated for a 2012 Diamond Willow Award. Being one of the amazing “Tree Awards”, the winning book is chosen by the most important judges of all: the reader! Over the next few weeks,...
by liam | Sep 18, 2012 | appearances, education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, media, video games, virtual worlds
One look at this blog and you’ll know I’m kind of into Minecraft. But who isn’t these days? Seriously, mention it to a group of under 15s and guaranteed you’ll start a conversation about the best mods, servers or builds. So, I was totally...
by liam | Mar 3, 2012 | comics, writing news
I’m wearing many hats these days: teacher, librarian, video games and learning advocate and finally humble writer. Over at my blog, feeding change, I write my education / “video games aren’t evil” posts. Here at my main page, I like to stick to...