Storytelling guides & resources
Free practical guides from Storytelling for Leaders, including Your Change Story Activity Booklet.
Exercises to help you shape a story of change, build your leadership story, and develop a shared team story.
Writing
Small Weird Crews
A field guide to building high-performing teams of humans (coming 2027, preview available)
Small is not a stepping stone. Small, high-trust teams can do extraordinary things through focus, adaptability, and the strength of their connections.
From game studios to startups, special forces to garage bands, monasteries to Mortal Kombat: lessons from people who've built ambitious things with their crews.
Explore 23 lessons online, with more stories and publication updates on the Small Weird Crews website.
The Campfire in the Storm
Leadership storytelling during crisis.
When things fall apart, a shared story can help a team find its footing. Drawing on disaster recovery, startups, and creative projects, this essay explores how leaders establish reality, keep purpose in view, and help people take the next step together.
Read in The Tangle
The Painted Door
On cover art as a portal for the imagination.
A personal essay on childhood encounters with fantasy art, secondhand bookshops, and the imaginative possibilities a cover can open.
Read in ChiselProject Tempest Tales
Darkness and mystery on the New Zealand frontier. Welcome to Tempest Bay, a town on the wild coast where the Old Ways still hold.
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"... hauntingly lyrical and delightfully strange ... highly original in tone, concept, and execution ... visceral and evocative imagery."
- Booklife Prize (Publisher's Weekly)
Finalist in the 2019-20 Australasian Horror Awards
Love meets madness on a 19th century frontier at earth's end. He's been sent to investigate the wreck of a mysterious expedition ship off the wild coast of New Zealand. But the locals are strange, and the explorers driven insane.
There's one hope he still holds dear, a long-hoped-for reunion with the final survivor, yet that connection proves the most twisted and troubling of all.
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Two Strange Girls
A turbulent friendship falls apart amid secrets, betrayal, and horror. Can we ever regain what's lost?
Tempest Bay, 1910. A south seas smuggling town where misfits of all kinds live with vivid intensity. Marjorie Morton and Constance Pream are smart and strange and gloriously difficult. Both know they'll be lifelong friends. But when a storm brings a distress call from the ocean deep, terrors emerge to threaten everything they love.
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Her Mad Song
Shortlisted for the 2020 Shirley Jackson Award
The strange and haunting tale of rediscovering yourself in a time of madness.
It's a strange time in Tempest Bay, the haunted New Zealand town at the end of the earth. A pair of mysterious travellers arrive in search of a lost scientist. Sheltering on the high wild clifftops, they must navigate a labyrinth of secrets below as a long-awaited storm makes landfall.
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