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Angel Leigh McCoy (right) with singer/songwriter S.J. Tucker at a RAVENS IN THE LIBRARY reading. 2009. |
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| Born | Angela Leigh McCoy December 13, 1962 Elgin, Illinois, United States |
| Occupation | game designer and fiction writer |
| Influenced by | Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Clive Barker, Stephen King |
Angel Leigh McCoy is a game designer and fiction writer based in Seattle, Washington.
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Originally from the Midwest, Angel Leigh McCoy grew up delving into fantasy and horror novels and won her first essay contest in 6th grade. She studied French Literature at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.
She is credited with published work in the role-playing games industry as far back as 1994.[1] Over the years, she has designed RPG material for companies such as White Wolf, Wizards of the Coast, FASA, and Pinnacle Entertainment Group. In 2001, she was writing in the video game industry for Microsoft Game Studios, writing articles as Xbox.com correspondent Wireless Angel. She transferred to ArenaNet in 2007, where she was part of a team effort to make the MMORPG Guild Wars 2. She serves as the head editor for the Wily Writers Speculative Fiction Podcast.[2]
McCoy has published short fiction in various anthologies and magazines, including:
McCoy worked as a game reviewer and journalist for Microsoft Game Studios and Xbox.[11] She currently works for ArenaNet as one of the writers on Guild Wars 2.[12]
McCoy's work in the role-playing game industry includes supplements for Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms; FASA's Earthdawn; West End Games' World of Necroscope; Pinnacle Entertainment's Deadlands; and White Wolf's Mage: The Ascension, Vampire: The Masquerade, Hunter: The Reckoning and Changeling: The Dreaming.[1]
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Dungeons & Dragons product line, TSR
Changeling: the Dreaming product line, White Wolf Publishing & ArtHaus Publishing
Mage the Ascension product line, White Wolf Publishing
Vampire: the Masquerade product line, White Wolf Publishing
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Everquest product line, White Wolf Publishing
Hunter: The Reckoning product line, White Wolf Publishing
Millennium's End product line, Chameleon Eclectic
Earthdawn product line, FASA Corporation
Miscellaneous
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