David O'Mahony: Children's book shows it's good to get out of your comfort zone

Most of my work has ghosts, ghouls, supernatural entities, or occasionally some sort of fantasy realm. However, I wrote something completely different for an audience of one, my seven-year-old daughter. Now it's going to be read to her class, writes David O'Mahony

One of the characters in David O'Mahony's book is a squirrel called Acorn who’s been turned into a boy. File photo

Every writer wants to be read. Well, deep down every writer wants to sell a shedload of books, though ideally they’ll all be read as well.

But there’s a difference between wanting to be read, and being prepared to be perceived, even if it’s left to most writers to do some serious heavy lifting when it comes to driving sales of their books. I’m an author, not an influencer.