Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch

Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch marks the first time Rhianna has contributed to her father’s body of literary work for children. Written in collaboration with author Gabrielle Kent and illustrator Paul Kidby, this in-world guide was published in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Terry Pratchett’s first Tiffany Aching novel, Wee Free Men. Available here and in all good bookshops. What people are saying… …a remembrance and pulling together of all the best things of the Witches of the Discworld, a real homage to the work that was done by Terry.

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Campaigns & Companions: The Complete Role-Playing Guide for Pets

Written in collaboration with Andi Ewington, edited by Alex de Campi, and illustrated by Calum Alexander Watt, Rhianna helped celebrate the colliding worlds of role-playing games and pet ownership with hilarious scenarios alongside joyful full-colour illustration. The gags come from games writers Andi Ewington and Rhianna Pratchett. Both of these creators are very familiar with both fantasy gaming and good gags. The result is something both hilarious and heart-warming. We get hamsters stuffing magical items in their cheeks, cats knocking exactly the wrong thing off a shelf, dogs chasing things that they shouldn’t and so on.

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Fighting Fantasy: Crystal of Storms

As part of Scholastic’s revitalization of Fighting Fantasy, Rhianna penned her own quirky take on the books becoming the first woman to write for the popular non-linear adventure series created by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson in the 1980’s. Rhianna’s writing though is what makes the book so special. It’s full of humour that was often missing from the original books, that took their fantasy and science fiction settings seriously.

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Press Start to Play

From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, these twenty-six stories play with our notion of what video games can be—and what they can become—in smart and singular ways. Rhianna contributed the short story Creation Screen to this anthology inspired by the world of gaming and edited by John Joseph Adams & Daniel H Wilson.

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Videogames

In Videogames, Rhianna takes a look at the development of the computer games, from simple 2D graphics to the life-like 3D modelling we have today.

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Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing

A K Peters This book was put together by members of the IGDA’s Writers’ Special Interest Group. And edited by Wendy Despain.

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Where Evil Lurks: Special Edition

Alex Otterlei In collaboration with composer Alex Otterlei, Rhianna wrote the short story entitled The House to accompany the re-release of Otterlei’s album Where Evil Lurks.

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Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames

Edited by Chris Bateman, Rhianna wrote The Needs of the Audience chapter for this first book by members of the IGDA Writers’ SIG’s.

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