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Steve Ince is a writer, artist and game designer with many years of experience, working with a variety of global clients and has gained two prestigious award nominations for his work.
His book, Writing for Video Games, was published by A&C Black. This was recently followed by the book, An Introduction to Game Writing then 201 Things for Better Game Writing.

The first of his ventures into novel writing was with the urban fantasy story, Blood and Earth set in the historic town of York.

Steve’s skills have been utilised on a number of children’s books, both with his writing and his illustration. The Magic Snowflake, The Doll’s House, The Quinton Quads and the Mystery of Malprentice Manor and Amanda Alexander and the Very Friendly Panda, to name a ...more

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	Writing for Video Games 3.53 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood and Earth: The first Bishop & Pope novel 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Introduction to Game Writing: A Workbook for Interactive Stories 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quinton Quads and the Mystery of Malprentice Manor 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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New blog here

Just a brief post to say thank you for buying and reading my books.

I hope to be posting my book reviews here, too.

Take care,
Steve

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