Portfolio

Our books, book reviews and listings, interviews and podcast appearances, keynote essays and articles, and guest posts.

High Tide, Low Tide: The Caring Friend’s Guide to Bipolar Disorder (Revised Edition), Martin Baker and Fran Houston (Kingston Park Publishing, 2021)
No One is Too Far Away: Notes from a Transatlantic Friendship, Martin Baker and Fran Houston (Kingston Park Publishing, 2021)
No One is Too Far Away: Notes from a Transatlantic Friendship, Martin Baker and Fran Houston (Eliezer Tristan Publishing, 2018)
High Tide, Low Tide: The Caring Friend’s Guide to Bipolar Disorder, Martin Baker and Fran Houston (Nordland Publishing, 2016)
For the Love of Peaks: Island Portraits & Stories, A Collection, Fran Houston (Maine Authors Publishing, 2010)
Collected Poems: 1977-1984, Martin Baker (Lulu, 2008)

High Tide, Low Tide: The Caring Friend’s Guide to Bipolar Disorder

For the Love of Peaks: Island Portraits & Stories, A Collection

Sharing our story in this powerful piece by STOP Suicide, for Time to Talk Day.
Friends in Deed: Overseas confidants co-write books about being a supportive friend. Interview with Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram
[MB] Podcast interview with Amy Gamble for SpeakUp4MentalHealth
Interview with It’s Not Your Journey for Mental Health Awareness Month
Interview with Marie Abanga (part 1, part 2)
Podcast interview with Stigma Fighters CEO/Founder Sarah Fader
MH Shorts podcast: Support in the age of Social Media, for Old Cove Road
Podcast, Transatlantic best friends: how Skype enables our long-distance caring friendship
Podcast interview with John Wilson from OnlineEvents for their professional resource library
Podcast interview with award-winning health writer/blogger Diane Atwood. Also interview for Catching Health
Podcast interview with Steven Hesse for Geek Apocalypse (mp3 audio). Also Geek Apocalypse 100th episode, mp3 audio (starting at 2:00:40)
[MB] Radio interview, Mentally Sound, Gravity Radio NE (starts 27:00)
[FH] TV interview with Derek Davis at kitten therapy event, Portland Press Herald
[FH] TV interview with Jennifer Rooks, Maine Watch, MPBN
[FH] Radio interview with Dellani Oakes, Red River Radio
[FH] Interview with Rita Kissen, Island Times (PDF)

[MB] Guest speaker for Talking FreEly, Ely, UK. Full speech (video)
Book party and fundraiser (video part 1, part 2, part 3) for mental health nonprofit Family Hope.
Fundraising campaign for mental health nonprofit Family Hope
[MB] Panellist, 2016 Maine Behavioral Healthcare’s annual It Takes a Community forum on Social Media & Mental Health (video | audio)
[MB] Book reading at Newcastle Literary Salon Jun 2016 | Jul 2016 | Sep 2016

[MB] “It’s Not Boring! An Open Letter to My Best Friend on Our 10 Year Anniversary,” by Martin Baker. Published in Hope for Troubled Minds: Tributes to Those with Brain Illnesses and Their Loved Ones edited by Tony Roberts (Way With Words Publishing, 2024) and also here.
[MB] Featured in “7 People Who Have Changed How We View Bipolar Disorder” at Health Central
[MB] Contributing author at bp Magazine
[MB] “No one is too far away to be cared for or to care,” by Martin Baker. Published in Stigma Fighters Anthology: Volume 2 edited by Sarah Fader (Osiris Ink, 2016) and on the Stigma Fighters website
[MB] 10 Ways to Support a Friend With Mental Illness When You’re Apart at The Mighty (originally published by NoStigmas)
[MB] To Dad, on Account of the Life I’m Proud Of (and Wish You Were Able to See) at The Good Men Project (also here)
[MB] Dear Mum, Love Martin at Stigma Fighters (also here)
[FH] Maine Voices Op-Ed, Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
[FH] The Big Sea. The Big See. published in The Maine Review (Spring 2016)
[FH] Lessons of the Night (December 2010)

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