About

Hello. I'm a freelance writer, researcher and game designer living in Battersea. I also do occasional web stuff. Recent projects include game design for The Rubbish Game at the Science Museum's Dana Centre; research and writing for alternate reality game The Soho Project; and building the website for the 2008 Birds Eye View Film Festival.

I've just submitted my thesis for a PhD investigating online fiction, and suddenly have more time for new projects, so if you want to give me some money to do pretty much anything involving writing, games or cities, then that would be particularly nice.

Non-fiction

• The Sandpit, a project of the Hide and Seek Pervasive Games Festival.
• Raspberry Debacle, recipes and food writing; offline for a week or two due to Wordpress problems.

Fiction

• 16 Across, a story puzzle about Adelaide.
• Clockers, a feature-length clockpunk Hackers parody written with Brendan Adkins.

Useless things

• The Shakespeare Quote Generator, for easily-amused Shakespeare enthusiasts. Neither a borrower nor a squirrel be.
• The Evening Standard Headline Generator, recombining photographs for endless new headlines. ROYAL CHICKENS TO BE LEGAL.
• bloe not blue, marketing for the colour of the future.
• The Mechanical Contrivium, auto-generated trivia on a subject of your choice. It trivs your ears.
• The Christmas Song Generator, which puts a word into a Christmas carol in order to amuse briefly.
• What Poetry Form Are You?, in case you wanted to know.

Personal things

• A Flickr account, mostly museums and slightly amusing signs
• A del.icio.us account, which I should really use more often given that it's about the only place I've ever been quick enough to get the username "holly".
• A boardgamegeek account, which I think you have to be logged in to see, but mostly all you'd learn is that I don't like chess much.
• A livejournal, updated approximately annually.