Non-fiction
- Role-Playing Games in Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2023. See 'Book' above, for more information.
- Exterminate! The Mentality of a Master Race, in Travis Langley's upcoming Doctor Who Psychology (Second Edition): Times Change. Looking at how easy it is to behave like a Dalek. Very, as it happens.
- Their Own Worst Enemies, in Travis Langley's Spider-Man Psychology: Untangling Webs. Just a sidebar (I found out about the project too late to contribute anything meaningful, but had to have my name in there somewhere!), looking at how easy it is to turn a bunch of villains against each other.
- Battling Demons: Daniel Hand explores tabletop role-playing games as a therapeutic intervention, in Therapy Today. Afraid you'll need BACP membership to read this one. Just a brief exploration of RPG-therapy, trying to broaden awareness among non-geek practitioners. Oh, and the illustrator had way too much fun--the article looked amazing!
- Foreword to Karen L. Abrahamson's Death by Effigy. Having previously written a Burma-based short story for the publisher, they asked me to write a foreword to this book, giving a (very) brief outline of Burmese history. I think I'm right in saying that my entire contribution is FREE to read, on Amazon's 'Look Inside' feature.
- Several pieces for DEKHO! The Journal of the Burma Star Association. I forget how much I wrote for DEKHO!--two or three pieces, I think--but I'm so, so proud to have done so. I'm a Friend of the (now, sadly, shut down) Burma Star Association, which supported Second World War Veterans who fought in that part of the world, and I have so much love and respect for all those souls, still with us or passed, who braved that hellish theatre.
- Various newspaper articles, predominately in the Reading Evening Post.
Podcast/Panel Appearances
- I spoke to Amelia and Ryan at Character Creation Cast about how RPGs can be wonderfully therapeutic, and we even created characters using the system presented in The Practitioner's Guide! C3 has been one of my favourite podcasts for years, and I had so much fun on their show. Super hope they invite me back! FREE to listen.
- I've also spoken with the amazing Kelli Walker about RPG therapy and the hazards of dice addiction on Not Another Anxiety Show. Kelli's an amazing person, and her podcast has been an inspiration to me for...a long time. Such a privilege to get to talk with her. FREE to listen.
- I'm also on YouTube now, it seems! Corey, head of the awesome Legend of the Five Rings actual-play channel Dead Unicorn, put together a truly humbling episode about RPGs in therapy. Check it out, he's just, so cool. FREE to watch.
- I've appeared on several panels at Con-Tinual: The Con that Never Ends. Topics have included Tolkien and Trauma, Tolkien & Transformation, Anime & Manga, and many, many more. FREE to watch.
- Talking about RPGs in therapy on the Therapy Today Podcast. Alas, only BACP members will be able to access this one, but it's there if you want to have a look at the 'please log in' page.
- Talking about RPGs in therapy on the Counselling Tutor Podcast. FREE to watch/listen.
Fiction
- The Floating Village, in an upcoming (to be titled) anthology by the International Writers Fellowship. A romance story, full of ghosts and...dead people.
- The Serpent in the Glass, in the same anthology. Good, old-fashioned, sword-and-sorcery, with a monster that needs slaying and a thief in a bad mood.
- Conquest, in the same anthology (the IWF is a writers group with precisely four members, so we each have to do our bit!). An invading force must overcome unexpectedly strong (i.e., supernatural) resistance.
- Without Mercy, in Dedren Sneed's upcoming Sorghum and Spear: The Way of Silk and Stone, Volume II. Two friends, on the verge of death, are rescued by a mysterious benefactor. Inspired by John Keats's La Belle Dame sans Merci.
- Cardinal Knowledge: The honest-to-God true story of what really goes on at the highest levels of the church, in Today, Tomorrow, Always. Desribed by one reader as, "Monty Python in the Vatican." 'Nuff said.
- Blake's Heaven. Can't remember where this one ended up going, but I know it won a prize (a Waterstone's gift card, as I recall). A very short ghost story, set in Burma during the Second World War.
- Break my Heart at Painted Church, in Selene Quarterly Magazine. A weird-west story, about a strange cowgirl on a quest.
- Ascension, in Myriad Lands, Volume I. One of my more peaceful stories, set in a fantasy version of Burma, following a monk on his way to enlightenment.
- Plough this Earth and Sow it with Salt, in Tales of Ruma. I had so much fun, writing this story! Re-imagines the end of the Third Punic War, but fought with giant monsters. Incidentally, the book was produced to accompany an RPG, Ruma: Dawn of Empire. So. Awesome.
- Warriors in the Mist, in Swords and Sorcery Magazine. A FREE story, in which a war-weary young man must once again put his soul on the line to keep his community (and his pregnant dwarf wife) safe from demonic raiders.
- Memories, in Swords and Sorcery Magazine. My first paid sale (and FREE to read), this is one I haven't been able to go back and re-read, for fear of it being, you know, pants. Low-level fantasy (this particular story doesn't have magic, although it is present in the world), it looks briefly at an old soldier re-living the horrors of battle. Two decades after this character first came into being, I'm still writing stories about him!
- Freedom and Justice, in On the Map. Inspired by a line in Gundam Seed ("Where are Freedom and Justice?", referencing two of the most powerful gundams--giant fighting robots--in that universe), this is currently my only published poem. I hope I've gotten better...
- Departure, in On the Map, an anthology by members of the Thames Valley Writers Circle. Thankfully, very few people will ever have read this...um...thing, and fewer still will ever read it again. One of my few (albeit growing) attempts at romance, this first-kiss scene was based heavily upon real events.