Angel Leigh McCoy is an American game designer and fiction writer based in Seattle, Washington.
Early life and education Originally from the Midwest, Angel Leigh McCoy grew up delving into fantasy and horror novels and won her first essay contest in sixth grade. She studied French Literature at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.
Career She is credited with published work in the role-playing games industry as far back as 1994. 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.
Her side projects have included: founding and providing creative direction for an indie game team (Games Omniverse LLC); short fiction writing; webmaster for the Horror Writers Association; producing the Wily Writers Speculative Fiction Podcast; and editing short story anthologies "Deep Cuts", and "Another Dimension Anthology".
Publications
Novella
Charlie Darwin, or the Trine of 1809, Nevermet Press, 2011.
Short fiction McCoy has published short fiction in various anthologies and magazines, including:
"Ravens in the Library", Quiet Thunder "Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror", Comet Press "Masters of Horror Anthology", Triskaideka Books "Cobalt City Christmas", Timid Pirates Productions.Review of Cobalt City Christmas at the Seattle PI blog Shockroom "Fear of the Dark", HorrorBound Growing Dread: Biopunk Visions", by Timid Pirate Publishing Tales for Canterbury", Random Static Necrotic Tissue", issue 14, Stygian Publications
Computer game work McCoy worked as a game reviewer and journalist for Microsoft Game Studios and Xbox.Articles Listing on Xbox.com She currently works for ArenaNet as lore and narrative designer on Guild Wars 2.
Role-playing game work 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.
Dungeons & Dragons product line, TSR * The Magic of Faerun, co-author; 2000
Changeling: The Dreaming product line, White Wolf Publishing & ArtHaus Publishing * Pooka Kithbook, ArtHaus Publishing; 1999 * Inanimae: The Secret Way, contributing author; 1998 * Satyr Kithbook, 1997 * Player's Guide, contributing author, 1997 * Second Edition, contributing author, 1997 * Storyteller's Guide, contributing author; 1995 * Shadows on the Hill, contributing author; 1995
Mage: The Ascension product line, White Wolf Publishing * Manifesto, co-author, December 2002 * Hollow Ones Sourcebook, co-author, June 2002 * Mage Revised, contributing author, 1999 * The Bygone Bestiary, contributing author, 1998 * Technomancer's Toybox, contributing author, 1997 * Beyond the Barriers, contributing author, 1996
Vampire: The Masquerade product line, White Wolf Publishing * Sins of the Blood, co-author, 2001 * World of Darkness, Vol. II, contributing author; 1996
EverQuest Role-Playing Game product line, White Wolf Publishing * Monsters of Norrath, co-author, August 2002 * Player's Handbook, co-author, July 2002
Hunter: The Reckoning product line, White Wolf Publishing * Defender Sourcebook, co-author; 1999 * Survival Guide, contributing author; 1999 * Hunter: The Reckoning, contributing author; 1999
Millennium's End product line, Chameleon Eclectic * The Medellín Agent, co-author; 1997 * Overlay Accessory Kit, contributing author; 1994
Earthdawn product line, FASA Corporation * Magic, contributing author; 1995 * Legends of Earthdawn, contributing author; 1995
Miscellaneous * Aberrant: Project Utopia, White Wolf Publishing, contributing author; 1999 * Deadlands: Marshall Law, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, contributing author, 1996 * World of Necroscope: Book of Adventures, West End Games, contributing author; 1995
References
External links
Angel's Encyclopedia of Speculative Fiction entry The Locus Index to Science Fiction, 1999 Wily Writers Speculative Fiction site