About Emma
My name is Emma, and I’m a creative writer and graphic designer from aotearoa new zealand. i am currently based in the United Kingdom.
I write because I enjoy stepping out of my own life for a little while and seeing a different world through the eyes of someone else; I love to explore a character’s motivations and opinions and shape their experience of their world to better understand my own. I love the idea that something I produced has the power to inspire imagination, inspiration and excitement in others. I wholly believe in the power of great storytelling and constantly aspire to share it with others through my own creativity.
I have been writing creatively for most of my life, and I especially take pride in my character creation and development skills which permeate both my hobbies and TTRPG writing work. I am primarily interested in fantasy and horror genres ranging from modern dark fantasy and folk horror to medieval settings and “Tolkienesque” worlds.
writing credits
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Guest writer contributing journalling prompts for Year 3-4 students in the House of Celestials. This project is due to crowdfund late 2024.
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Contributing writer for the Wisdom Beyond Fates section including deity write ups and devotee summaries. This project is currently in production, having successfully crowdfunded via Kickstarter in May/June 2024.
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Contributing writer for the Eldritch section. Included two warlock patron write ups. This project successfully funded via Kickstarter and published in 2023.
TTRPG & CREATIVE WRITING
I am an avid TTRPG player and play-by-post GM and spend much of my spare time involved with the TTRPG community, whether it be via social media or through discord groups. You can find me on Twitter at @gothHoblin. I am usually involved in a large number of games at once, and I have produced a range of games and supplements, all of which are available on itch.io and DriveThruRPG.
I have spent many years writing creatively for my own personal interest, including as part of collaborative RP forums which require proactive work and discussion between multiple writers. As an administrator of these forums, I have a lot of experience with character creation and development, proofreading and editing others, as well as worldbuilding and the creation of faction groups, character types/classes, etc.
In 2022 I was selected to write for the Tome of Pacts Zine, imagining new types of warlock patrons and those who deal with them. In 2023 I was selected to write for the follow up Book of Devotion (currently in development), this time concerning deities and the clerics and paladins who serve them. These projects involve collaborating with multiple artists to collectively envision and bring to life these characters from concept through to finished stages.
In 2022 I also conducted a series of interviews with various members of the indie TTRPG community and published them on my blog, striving to highlight smaller creators as well as larger ones.
In 2023 I was a finalist for a CRIT Award under the category "Best blog, or article written in the TTRPG space" for my article "Tips for Pitching to Writers (and other creatives too)".
In 2023 I founded gothHoblin's Grimoire, a free community zine that brings together content from indie creators under a common theme. Our first issue, "Gothic", was released in October 2023 and we followed up with a bumper issue on "Ancient Magic" for the holidays. After a slight restructure drawing on the experience of the first two issues, Issue 3, "Folk Horror" is now underway and due to be published in October 2024.
In early 2024 I was invited to contribute as a guest writer to Cassi Mothwin’s upcoming Tangled Blessings Expanded, which involved creating 7 unique prompts adhering to a given theme and setting. This project is due to crowdfund later in 2024.
For more information on projects I have written or designed myself, please check out my work.
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