[1][2] Before pursuing a career in writing Kidd had worked at Beam Software, an Australia-based game developer.
She is credited as, among other things, the writer, director and lead designer of Nightshade, an action-adventure title for the NES.
Kidd's first book, entitled Mus of Kerbridge, was released in 1995 and received a short-list nomination for the 1995 Aurealis Awards best fantasy novel.
[4] She has since released six more stand alone novels, written a two book series and has contributed to two of the Dungeons & Dragons novel series, Forgotten Realms: Nobles and Greyhawk.
[6] Kidd also has written a non-fiction strategy guide based on the video game Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?