Stories and Books

Book Series:

The Dragon Defence League (fantasy/adventure for ages 8-13) (go to the series page)

The Dragon Slayer’s Son

The Dragon Slayer’s Daughter

The Dragon Defence League

Dragon Homecoming 

Fatecarver (epic fantasy for ages 13+)

Fatecarver

Fatewalker

Fatemaker (coming mid-2023)

The Rifton Chronicles (cosy urban fantasy for adults)

Demonic Summoning for the Modern Woman

Standalone Fiction:

Squelched (a light hearted urban fantasy for adults)

The Ipswich Witch (a fantasy for ages 8-12)

A Glint of Exoskeleton (an adventure for ages 8-13)

Non-Fiction:

The Dragon Slayer’s Son Novel Study Unit (no-prep novel study unit for teachers)

Backyard Bugwatcher (how to identify and care for New Zealand arthropods, for all ages)

Insects in the Classroom (an activity guide for years 0-6)

Pandemic Poetry: Across the Fence (a collection of poems written during Covid-19 lockdown)

Short Stories:

Five-hundred Pieces (published in The Fabulist)

Mists of Time (available in Magic Portals)

100% Pure New Zealand (available in Aftermath)

Deathventures Inc (available in Alternative Deathiness)

Breach (available in Te Kōrero Ahi Kā and Magic Portals)

The Pied Piper (winner of 2017 Lexicon Short Story Award; Published in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #72

To the Centre of the Earth (winner of 2016 AuContraire Short Story Award; available in Te Kōrero Ahi Kā)

Mannequin (published in Work Literary Magazine)

How the Albatross Got its Wings (published in Fickle Muses)

Also check out my Saturday Stories, published right here on my blog.

Anthologies:

Magic Portals (edited by Sam Knight)

Aftermath (edited by Gary Nelson, Jill Winfield and Robinne Weiss)

Alternative Deathiness (edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and Bob Brown)

Putting the Science in Fiction (edited by Dan Koboldt)


Te Kōrero Ahi Kā: To Speak of the Home Fires Burning (edited by Lee Murray, Grace Bridges and Aaron Compton)

Peace Corps in Panama: Fifty Years, Many Voices (edited by Meredith W. Cornett)

Guest Blogs:

Parasitism in Sci-fi: It Gets Under Your Skin (on Science in Science Fiction, Fact in Fantasy blog)

Writing about Venomous Creatures (on Science in Science Fiction, Fact in Fantasy blog)

Writing Realistic Spiders (on Science in Science Fiction, Fact in Fantasy blog)

Insects in Fiction: What Bugs Me (on Science in Science Fiction, Fact in Fantasy blog)

Gender Determination in Fantasy Creatures (on Science in Science Fiction, Fact in Fantasy blog)