Masterlist of Notebooks I’ve designed

I use a lot of notebooks. Like, a lot. I have a large collection of notebooks, and a year ago I actually decluttered about half of them because after moving house I realised I had more notebooks than I could reasonably use in my lifetime. I gifted them to friends, it was a good time.

What that’s left me with is a few shelves of notebooks I genuinely love. I use a lot of notebooks, right now I have probably a dozen in active use for all my life admin and writing projects.

I’m telling you this to try to explain my love for notebooks because I think it was always a matter of time before I started to make my own. I watched some YouTube videos on how to do it, talked to a friend who is also in the notebook biz, and got to creating.

The Reading Log Journal – flower garden design

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The reading log journal includes a 60 book reading challenge at the front, a series of pages with room for reviews and prompts, and then a generous number of pages of dot grid so you can continue to review or make notes however you like.

Reading Log Journal – tea and treats

This is the same interior as the other reading logs, but with a bright and cheery tea, baked goods and berries design all over the cover.

Tea and Treats reading log links:
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Reading Log Journal – Bookshelf

Bookshelf reading log links

This is the same interior as the other reading logs, but with a funky bright doodle of a bookshelf that wraps around the cover

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Reading Log Journal – Forest friends

This is the same interior as the other reading logs, but with a cute repeating pattern of deer, rabbits and birdies to give a forest-core feel to the cover.

Forest friends book journal links

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The TTRPG journal – dragon

For nerds, tabletop roleplaying gamers, LARPers and anyone who just likes to take nerdy notes. This notebook is designed to make you think deeper about the characters you design – with prompts for character backstory, Non Player Characters, spaces for doodles or pasted in pictures.

The second part of the notebook is space for campaign notes, sketches and anything else you want to record.

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The TTRPG journal – phoenix

The same interior as the dragon character journal, but a bright red cover with a phoenix on the front.

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The TTRPG journal – unicorn

The same interior as the dragon character journal, but a deep purple cover and a unicorn on the front for your most special and magical characters.

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The TTRPG journal – octopode

The same interior as the dragon character journal, but a bright blue cover with a kraken on the cover.

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A useful book to put things in

When I was a teenager I started the habit of carrying around little notebooks that people gifted me, or that I bought on sale at the old Kirk’s department store. I invariably called these “useful book to put things in” and this is my iteration of those beloved notebooks.

Fully dot gridded and 180 pages, it’s a book for you to use any way you like

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A dream journal

200 pages

6 inch by 9 inch

journal to record what you dream at night. To improve your dream recall, write down whatever you remember soon after waking.

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Sad Axolotl Boys Club

Maybe you’re a boy who feels like a sad axolotl? Maybe your favourite character is a sad boy who resembles an axolotl.

This one is a Misselthwaite universe joke and it won’t make sense until a few more books are published, but I like it and so should you!

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KiwiRPG Week and my new game

This week is KiwiRPG Week! An excellent collective of Aotearoa based game designers, players and podcasters have teamed up to do some excellent things this week. If you’re interested in Tabletop RPGs and want to learn about my newest game, read on!

What’s KiwiRPG all about?

We have a sampler bundle on Itch and DriveThru (my game High School Princess and a small LARP called Quiet Day in the Library are included).

We’ve had some cool international attention as well, including an article on Gizmodo and a mention on GeekNative

The biggest excitement for me is today I launched my new game: Trading Places

Before I get into that, a shout out. My game isn’t the only one launching today, the esteemed Simon Carryer has released a D&D fan edit called Pyramid of the Undying which you should also check out!

Trading Places is a journaling game. It’s an introspective game about ordinary and extraordinary lives, and I’m very proud of it.

It’s about swapping bodies, a la Freaky Friday or the brilliant book The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. What if one day, you woke up in a body and a life that isn’t your own?

It’s run beautifully in playtests, with one game running full Hallmark Christmas movie, and another game going a lot more poetical and introspective about the nature of life. It’s a game which you can do a lot with, and I expect is only the first of many journaling games from me…

Buy Trading Places on Itch

Or on DriveThruRPG

Reading log journal

I updated my reading log journal, and ordered myself some copies. They arrived recently and I’m really stoked with how cute they look and how nice the quality is. These are print-on-demand from Amazon which means you can order them from Amazon yourself!

But let’s take a look inside…

There’s a 60 book reading challenge that you can use or not as you choose – it includes different formats of books as well as options that may put you out of your comfort reading zone. There are checkboxes so you can keep track of the ones you’ve done.

Then lots of review pages, with space for various details including dates started and read and why you chose this particular book.

The review pages are broken up with colouring pages every here and there so you can reward yourself for reading and updating the journal and have a little fun. Here’s one example:

Then the back half of the book is dot gridded pages so you can continue to review books, make lists of books to read, draw or do whatever you like, really.

If you’re in New Zealand you can also order direct from my Payhip store.

Get it on US Amazon or on Australian Amazon

YA novel Onesies and Ouijaboards out now!

Onesies and Ouijaboards

I’ve returned to the world of Young Adult novels!

Onesies and Ouijaboards is a spin off from my Mt Eden Witches series – involving Basil the library witch from Overdues and Occultism and Monsters and Manuscripts. It’s a standalone novel, and you don’t have to have read the other two before this one, but you’ll get a better idea of the world if you do.

So, why did I write another Young Adult novel after all this time?

Honestly, it was because teenagers asked for it. Not like, by spamming my socials or anything, but over the last 16 months or so I’ve been to a few book fairs (not as many as were planned, due to Covid and restrictions), but I’ve learned a bit. I’ve had a lot of varied teens look at the covers to my Witchy Fiction books and been really interested, but then a few of them have asked if there’s romance in them, and been disappointed when the answer was yes. This happened a handful of times, which isn’t a huge survey at all, but it showed that there was a gap in the market.

So I went ahead and wrote Onesies with the plan of including no romance at all. It’s also my first book with a non-binary solo main character. Arrow came to me at the end of Overdues and Occultism – a grumpy, emo teen who came into the library with their family.

The book was delightful to write. Arrow was firm in my mind as a person who loved fantasy and wanted something more, and the events of Monsters and Manuscripts opened up the perfect opportunity for their story.

This book is going to be available over a lot of ebook platforms, although just for the moment it’s only on Amazon, but watch out for it in the next few days.

Gorgeous cover by Jacqueline Sweet

Be careful what you wish for…

Arrow is fifteen, non-binary, and bored.

It’s one thing to read about magic, or watch ghost hunting shows. But Arrow yearns for something more. When they try out a prosperity spell from a magical library book, things start to go very very right.

Until they don’t.

Arrow’s good luck seems to be affecting a lot of the people around them. From A students suddenly failing quizzes to freak accidents, their good luck seems to be double-sided to say the least. Arrow’s best friend Ren knows not to mess with the unknown, but Arrow’s spell might just affect him all the same.

Arrow’s got to learn about how to wield their magic fast when the power they’ve drawn down proves to be beautiful, but dangerous as well.
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Onesies and Ouijaboards is a young adult novella spinoff of the popular Mt Eden Witches series. There is no romance, but there are tarot cards, best friends, ghosts and bubble tea

Buy it now!

This Unusual Life!

Here’s my latest publication. It started as a patreon project, and now it’s a book!

It’s a little bit spooky
It’s a little bit odd
It’s a little bit silly
Even when it’s not

I’ve found it very hard to articulate exactly what this book is – it’s a short story collection, but it’s in the format of a collection of clippings from a gossip magazine from another universe.

It includes gossip about the Royals, who are a family of homicidal fey. Personality quizzes, Horoscopes and letters to the psychic Agony Aunt Cressida Flittersocks. Plus special interest pieces about tweens manifesting superpowers and an expose about family portrait attacks as well as lots more.

In short, it’s what happens when I let my imagine run wild. There’s some horror, some comedy, some pure nonsense and something to make you think. I love it, personally, and I’m sure people who share my love for silliness will enjoy it as well.

Some of the questions to the agony aunts were submitted my users and friends and my dear friend Ellen was an invaluable sounding board throughout the project.

Grab an ebook of This Unusual Life now!