BOOKS

Fiction — and books about how fiction and games get built.

Cover of Gnosis by Rick Hall

GNOSIS

Psychic urban fantasy · 2019 · Kindle

Samantha Black is seventeen, runs parkour, and has just started getting headaches bad enough to put her in a hospital bed. She wakes with a voice in her head that isn’t hers — and the people who put it there want it back.

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Cover of Write Characters Using Myers-Briggs by Rick Hall

WRITE CHARACTERS USING MYERS-BRIGGS

On craft · 2024 · Paperback, Kindle

Characters go flat when a writer knows what they do but not why they’d do it that way. A working toolkit for building personalities that hold together under pressure.

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Cover of Cause and Effect Game Design by Rick Hall and Matt Laurence

CAUSE AND EFFECT GAME DESIGN

With Matt Laurence · 2023 · Hardcover, paperback, Kindle

Creative vision gets talked about as a gift you either have or don’t. This book treats it as a skill and lays out the steps, from first idea to a design your team can build.

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ON THE HORIZON

Awaiting publishing: a Mystery Thriller set in Orlando and a Techno Thriller set in Austin.

Under development: Speculative Mystery