Writers Guild nominee Anne Toole is a creative writer whose credits include computer games, television drama, webseries comics, and short fiction. With a penchant for telling stories with a light tone and a dark underbelly, she prefers writing contemporary mysteries, science fiction, fantasy,...
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Writers Guild nominee Anne Toole is a creative writer whose credits include computer games, television drama, webseries comics, and short fiction. With a penchant for telling stories with a light tone and a dark underbelly, she prefers writing contemporary mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, and the occasional romance. She currently writes for The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a contemporary adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. Anne started her career in television and has worked in syndication, cable, broadcast primetime and daytime. After writing for DAYS OF OUR LIVES, she was hired away as Head Writer for a game based on the STARGATE SG-1 series. She then earned the Writers Guild nomination for her work on THE WITCHER, a dark fantasy project. She has since worked on a number of different game genres and platforms.Anne has spoken on the future of entertainment at the inaugural Nokia OpenLab 2008 as well as on game design at GDC Europe, GDC Online, South by Southwest, the ION Game Conference, and Comic-con International. She also serves as the Mentorship Chair for the Women in Games SIG of the International Games Developers Association (IGDA). Aside from her creative writing, Anne has contributed over 200 blog posts on working with writers, writing and designing games, and virtual collaboration at the Writers Cabal Blog. She also tweets on game design, television, comics, and social media. You can follow her @amely. Anne graduated from Harvard with an ever-so-useful degree in Archaeology. She also studied abroad in Egypt under Kent Weeks shortly after he discovered KV5, the tomb of Pharaoh Rameses' sons. Anne is originally from the East Coast and currently resides in West Hollywood beside litigious neighbors. Born in France, she holds both EU and US passports. When she's not writing, she researches subjects like addiction, the Puritans, and business management, in no particular order.
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