Non-Fiction Writing
Commercial/Advertising
El Tacodor (Family Taco Night) Campaign - Old El Paso/Betty Crocker
In October of 2009, Old El Paso began their "El Tacodor" advertising campaign, encouraging families to have a monthly Family Taco Night, inspiring fun and communication around the dinner table.
The campaign featured downloadable games in 5 categories - "Crunch Time" (Beat the Clock), "Meat-N-Greet" (Family Fun), "Lettuce Play" (Pantomime), "In the Lime Light" (Performance) and "Say Cheese" (Wordplay). Three sets of initial "El Tacodor" challenge sheets (each with 20 different challenges) were released on October 2nd, 2009, with a new sheet scheduled to release on a monthly basis.
Jess (through Lone Shark Games) contributed more than 100 challenges to the project.
Magazine Articles
Renaissance Magazine
From 2002 to 2007, Jess was a regular contributor to Renaissance Magazine. She authored a feature article, Forsoothly Spoken, and contributed other articles in multiple issues, including Celtic Lovespoons .
As well, she contributed several book reviews including those focusing on The Witches and Wizards of Oberin, Crafting Handmade Shoes, and A Knight of Love.
eSchool News
In August of 2001, Jess co-wrote "Energy and Technology - How to Reduce the Power Consumption of Your District's Technology System" with her husband, Patrick Hartley, a noted Information Technology expert.
Electronic Publications
In August of 2009, Jess wrote a series of four blog articles on how to utilize GenCon (and other convention events) to your advantage if you were hoping to break into the industry as a professional writer, editor, artist or the like. To her surprise and pleasure, these articles reached far beyond her current readership, landing on Reddit and Slashdot, among other notable internet sites. The four articles are archived here in their entirety.
Inspired by her "Gen Con for the Aspiring Professional" blog posts, this 30+ page product contains even more advice, suggestions, tips and secrets for using conventions (and other face-to-face situations) to your best advantage. A must-read for those who are ready to break into the gaming industry, but aren't sure how to get started. Find out how to make the most of the best one-on-one connection time most gamers will ever get with industry pros!
Conducted Interviews
Sport of Kings Instructor Interviews
In 2007 and again in 2009, Jess interviewed several historical recreationists who were teaching classes on combat, warfare and tactics at an SCA event called “Sport of Kings”. From their answers, she constructed short personalized articles to allow event attendees to better understand the individuals they were learning from.
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