Career

Before pursuing a career in writing Kidd had worked at Beam Software, an Australia-based game developer. He is credited as, among other things, the writer, director and lead designer of Nightshade, an ambitious action-adventure title for the NES.

Kidd's first book, entitled Mus of Kerbridge

Mus of Kerbridge

Mus of Kerbridge is a 1995 fantasy novel by Paul Kidd. It follows the story of a mouse called Mus who has been sent to spy on the princess of Kerbridge only to help her fight against the warlady of the South.-Background:...

, was released in 1995 and received a short-list nomination for the 1995 Aurealis Awards best fantasy novel

Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel

The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and SpecFaction NSW to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers"...

. He has since released six more stand alone novels, written a two book series and has contributed to two of the Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...

 novel series, Forgotten Realms: Nobles and Greyhawk

Greyhawk

Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...

. Kidd also has written a non-fiction strategy guide based on the video game Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!? and has written two short stories which were published in the Dragon Magazine

Dragon (magazine)

Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...

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Novels

• Mus of Kerbridge
  Mus of Kerbridge
  Mus of Kerbridge is a 1995 fantasy novel by Paul Kidd. It follows the story of a mouse called Mus who has been sent to spy on the princess of Kerbridge only to help her fight against the warlady of the South.-Background:...
  
  (1995)
• The Council of Blades (1996) (part of the Forgotten Realms: Nobles series)
• A Whisper of Wings (1999)
• White Plume Mountain (1999) (part of the Greyhawk
  Greyhawk
  Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...
  
  series)
• Descent into the Depths of the Earth (1999) (part of the Greyhawk
  Greyhawk
  Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...
  
  series)
• Lace and Steel (2000)
• The Rats of Acomar (2000)
• Queen of the Demonweb Pits (2001) (part of the Greyhawk
  Greyhawk
  Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...
  
  series)
• Fey (2005)
• Dreamscape (2007)
• Lilith (2007)
• Petal Storm (2007)
• Neue Europa (2007)

Short fiction

• By The Job (2000) in Dragon Magazine
  Dragon (magazine)
  Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
  
  , May 2000 - Issue #271
• Keoland Blues (2000) in Dragon Magazine
  Dragon (magazine)
  Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
  
  , December 2000 - Issue #278