reviews | Liam O'Donnell

Readers make the writer

by liam | Jan 11, 2015 | writing news

I am a very lucky writer. I get to make stuff up, send it out to the world and have people read it. That sounds pretty basic, but sometimes that is all I want from this whole writing thing. That’s why my brain never fails to explode when readers take the time to...

Ganked gets non-gamer goodness on Amy’s Marathon of Books

by liam | Jun 1, 2014 | education, gaming, literacy, Teacher's Guide, writing news

One of my biggest worries when writing Ganked, was that non-gamers wouldn’t get it. Ganked is a straight-ahead YA mystery, but steeped in the world of video games and as a result packed with gamer terminology. But I didn’t want all the talk about MMOs,...