Andrea Phillips

Andrea Phillips is an award-winning transmedia writer, game designer and author. Andrea created the Serial Box LitRPG project Alternis, and also co-authored their urban fantasy Bookburners and their far-future YA thriller ReMade. Her debut novel, Revision, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Her short fiction has been published in Escape Pod and Fireside Magazine, including the critically acclaimed novelette The Revolution, Brought to You by Nike; the novel-length sequel, America Inc., will be released in July 2020. Her independent work includes the Kickstarted serial The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart; Choice of Games mobile game The Daring Mermaid Expedition; and The McKinnon Account, a short story that unfolds in your email inbox Phillips has worked on interactive projects such as iOS fitness games Zombies, Run! and The Walk, The Maester's Path for HBO's Game of Thrones, human rights game America 2049, and the independent commercial ARG Perplex City. Her projects have variously won the Prix Jeunesse Interactivity Prize, a Broadband Digital award, a Canadian Screen Award, a BIMA, the Origins Vanguard Innovation Award, and others. Her nonfiction book A Creator's Guide to Transmedia Storytelling is used to teach digital storytelling at universities around the world. You can find Andrea on Twitter at @andrhia. I mean, if you like that sort of thing.