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{{Short description|Writer and editor in the role-playing game industry}}
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'''Anne K. Brown''' is a writer and editor in the [[role-playing game]] industry.
==Career==
Brown began working as an Assistant editor for ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' magazine in 1989, on issues #147 to #151 (July–November 1989). She was later transferred to [[TSR, Inc.|TSR]]'s Games Division. She worked mostly as an editor, although she did design a number of modules and supplements including ''[[Falcon's Revenge]]'', ''[[Falconmaster]]'', and ''[[Flames of the Falcon]]'' ([[Greyhawk]], 1990, with Richard W. Brown), ''[[Ship of Horror]]'' ([[Ravenloft]], 1991), ''Unsung Heroes'' ([[Dragonlance]], 1992), ''[[Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog]]'' ([[Forgotten Realms]], 1992), and ''Children of the Night: Ghosts'' (Ravenloft, 1997). Brown was a vocal advocate within TSR of the [[Greyhawk]] setting, and designed the ''[[Greyhawk Player's Guide|Player's Guide to Greyhawk]]'' (1998).{{citation needed|date=November 2013}} Brown's ''Player's Guide to Greyhawk'' and [[Roger E. Moore]]'s ''[[Return of the Eight]]'' and ''[[The Adventure Begins]]'' returned TSR to Greyhawk, and according to [[Shannon Appelcline]] "moved the setting's metaplot well beyond the Greyhawk Wars to a new era that that was lighter and more magical than that of ''[[From the Ashes (Greyhawk)|From the Ashes]]''".<ref name="designers">{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=[[Mongoose Publishing]]|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7|pages=283}}</ref>
Brown left TSR in August 1997, and did work for [[Fast Forward Entertainment]] from 2002-2003. She has also written educational nonfiction books for middle schoolers.
==Publications==
* Co-author of ''The Storyteller’s Thesaurus'' (Chenault & Gray Publishing, 2013)
* Author of middle grade biography, ''Roger Federer'' ([[Rosen Publishing|Lucent Books]], 2011)
* Author of middle grade biography, ''Katy Perry'' (Lucent Books, 2011)
* Author of middle grade nonfiction, ''Migraines'' (Lucent Books, 2010)
* Author of middle grade nonfiction, ''Virtual Danger: Staying Safe Online'' (Compass Point Books, 2009)
* Author of middle grade biography, ''Gwen Stefani'' (Lucent Books, 2009)
* Author of middle grade biography, ''John Adams'' (Blackbirch Press, 2003)
* Author of young adult novel, ''Bigby’s Curse'' (TSR, Inc., 1995)
* Co-author of fantasy novels, ''Pools of Darkness'' and ''Pool of Twilight'' (TSR, Inc., 1992 & 1993)
Short Stories
"The Wolf in the Shadows," 2016, ''Lunar Resorts Anthology, The 77 Lost Worlds: An Apocalyptic Space'' game, FireSide Creations LLC
==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite web |url=http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=495 |archive-date=December 26, 2004 |title=Anne Brown at Pen-Paper.net |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041226140432/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=495 |access-date=November 30, 2008 }}
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