Johanna Mead - Writing Samples

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Costuming: More Productive Than Drugs, But Just As Expensive 

  Short essay, part of Chicks Dig Time Lords, published 2010 by Mad Norwegian Press. WINNER: 2011 Hugo Awards (Best Related Work)

 

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Sporadic, but honest - my public blog.

 

Forbidden Kingdoms
  A chapter for a role-playing game, in which I created an alternate history of the world for the period 1919 - 1945. Forbidden Kingdoms was nominated by the RPG industry for the Best New Role-Playing Game Award in 2004.

 

Costume Diary: Re-Creating The New Battlestar Galactica Uniform 


Informal - but hopefully - informative advice for fellow costumers.
  
Setting the Stage For Your Live-Action Role-Playing Game
  Part of a larger archive of live-action RPG advice, this article focused on cheapest, cheap and not-cheap-at-all ways an individual may physically transform a space to enhance an event.
  
LARP Pitfalls And Clawing Your Way Out of Them
  A guide to identifying potential problems within the plot for a live-action role-playing game and how to remedy them before and during the event. Part of a larger archive of live-action RPG advice.
     

Nations of Theah: Vodacce - A Review 

 

A review for Black Gate Gaming magazine. Winter 2002. 

 

Additional samples available upon request