Editing Rhianna Pratchett (section)

== Career ==
Rhianna Pratchett studied journalism at the [[London College of Printing]]. Following graduation, Pratchett began writing for ''[[Minx (magazine)|Minx]]'' magazine, where her first games reviews were published.<ref name="arstechnica">{{cite web |last=Timmer |first=John |url=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2007/06/talking-with-rhianna-pratchett-writer-and-co-story-designer-of-overlord/ |title=Talking with Rhianna Pratchett, writer and co-story designer of Overlord |publisher=Ars Technica |date=28 June 2007 |access-date=21 July 2012 |archive-date=23 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123012026/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2007/06/talking-with-rhianna-pratchett-writer-and-co-story-designer-of-overlord/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She moved to the long running ''[[PC Zone]]'' magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/07/rhianna-pratchett-on-retrofitting-story-working-from-bed-and-what-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-could-have-been/|title=Rhianna Pratchett On Working From Bed, Retrofitting Story, And Rise Of The Tomb Raider|date=17 October 2018|website=Kotaku Australia|access-date=15 July 2018|archive-date=29 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829092608/https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/07/rhianna-pratchett-on-retrofitting-story-working-from-bed-and-what-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-could-have-been/|url-status=dead}}</ref> as an editorial assistant, staff writer, eventually becoming a section editor. She wrote for many other publications including ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rhianna Pratchett's Profile|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/rhiannapratchett|website=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=3 July 2014|archive-date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529002830/https://www.theguardian.com/profile/rhiannapratchett|url-status=live}}</ref>

Pratchett moved into script writing and narrative design in 2002 with ''[[Beyond Divinity]]'', produced by Larian Studios in Belgium.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/9/3/5850182/rhianna-pratchett-rise-of-the-tomb-raider|title=Rhianna's rise: Meet the writer behind Tomb Raider|author=russpitts|work=Polygon|date=3 September 2014|access-date=15 November 2014|archive-date=22 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422181344/https://www.polygon.com/features/2014/9/3/5850182/rhianna-pratchett-rise-of-the-tomb-raider|url-status=live}}</ref> She also wrote a novella to accompany the game. In 2007, her work on ''[[Heavenly Sword]]'' was nominated for a [[BAFTA]] and a year later she won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain 'Best Videogame Script' award for ''[[Overlord (2007 video game)|Overlord]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arts.ac.uk/students/graduation/honorary-awards|title=Honorary Awards 2017|last=UAL|date=8 June 2018|website=UAL|access-date=9 May 2019|archive-date=22 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422213523/https://www.arts.ac.uk/students/graduation/honorary-awards|url-status=live}}</ref> Pratchett wrote the comic ''Tomb Raider: The Beginning'' with [[Dark Horse Comics|Dark Horse]] and the ''Mirror's Edge'' miniseries with [[DC Comics]], along with several of her own short stories. She has contributed to various books on games narrative including ''Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing'' and ''Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.breakingtheglassslipper.com/2017/07/13/writing-video-games-with-rhianna-pratchett/|title=Writing video games with Rhianna Pratchett|first=Megan|last=Leigh|date=13 July 2017|access-date=25 September 2019|archive-date=25 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925171244/http://www.breakingtheglassslipper.com/2017/07/13/writing-video-games-with-rhianna-pratchett/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Since 2012, she has been co-director of Narrativia Limited, a production company which holds exclusive multimedia and merchandising rights to her father [[Terry Pratchett]]'s works following his death.<ref name="cust">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11471323/It-was-like-having-a-full-sized-hobbit-for-a-father.html|title=It was like having a full-sized hobbit for a father|author=Maureen Paton|date=14 March 2015|publisher=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=29 June 2018|archive-date=12 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712101047/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11471323/It-was-like-having-a-full-sized-hobbit-for-a-father.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2012 and 2013, Narrativia announced that it would be working on three television projects based on Pratchett's father's works: ''[[The Watch (TV series)|The Watch]]'', ''[[Good Omens (TV series)|Good Omens]]'', and ''[[Wee Free Men#Film|Wee Free Men]]'', as well as several other projects; Pratchett was reported as co-writer of ''The Watch''<ref name="newstatesman">{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2012/11/terry-pratchett-sex-death-and-nature|title=Terry Pratchett: Sex, death and nature|date=21 November 2012|publisher=[[New Statesman]]|access-date=22 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314061518/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2012/11/terry-pratchett-sex-death-and-nature|archive-date=14 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/meet-rhianna-pratchett--the-woman-behind-the-lara-croft-backstory-424300.html|title=Meet Rhianna Pratchett – The woman behind the Lara Croft backstory|date=6 October 2016|access-date=6 October 2016|archive-date=7 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007194151/http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/meet-rhianna-pratchett--the-woman-behind-the-lara-croft-backstory-424300.html|url-status=live}}</ref> but in 2019 she announced she had not been involved in the project "for many years".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/rhipratchett/status/1160201596950765572?lang=en|title=@rhipratchett on Twitter|last=Pratchett|first=Rhianna|date=10 August 2019|website=Twitter|language=en|access-date=17 February 2020|quote=Just to be clear (since I'm asked this a lot) I am not working on The Watch TV series, and haven't been for many years. The show is under the creative control of BBC Studios.|archive-date=25 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225164840/https://twitter.com/rhipratchett/status/1160201596950765572?lang=en|url-status=live}}</ref> In a deal announced in April 2020, multiple ''Discworld'' novels are to be adapted for television by Narrativia, Motive Pictures and [[Endeavor Content]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://variety.com/2020/tv/global/terry-pratchett-discworld-endeavor-content-motive-pictures-1234591561/ | title = Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' Series to Be Adapted by Endeavor Content, Motive Pictures | first = Manori | last = Ravindran | date = 28 April 2020 | access-date = 28 April 2020 | work = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | archive-date = 28 April 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200428094250/https://variety.com/2020/tv/global/terry-pratchett-discworld-endeavor-content-motive-pictures-1234591561/ | url-status = live }}</ref>

She has also spoken on [[BBC]] Radio 1, Radio 4, 5Live and multiple conferences around the world, including Develop, [[Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games|Animex]], [[Game Developers Conference|GDC]] and TEDx Transmedia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPoxtPR-_cw  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/pPoxtPR-_cw| archive-date=12 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=The Future of the Videogames Writer: Rhianna Pratchett at TEDxTransmedia |publisher=YouTube |date=21 January 2013 |access-date=8 August 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In June 2015, she said that her father's 41st Discworld novel ''[[The Shepherd's Crown]]'', to be published posthumously later that year, would mark the end of the series, and that no further novels or books of unfinished work would be authorised for publication.<ref name="g_rhi">[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/12/terry-pratchett-daughter-fans-shepherds-crown-last-discworld-novel Terry Pratchett's daughter declares The Shepherd's Crown will be the last Discworld novel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026214057/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/12/terry-pratchett-daughter-fans-shepherds-crown-last-discworld-novel |date=26 October 2019 }}, The Guardian, 12 June 2015</ref>

In 2023, Pratchett hosted her first radio programme, ''Mythical Creatures'', a ten-part documentary series for BBC Radio 4 about creatures from British folklore. It was first broadcast from 18–29 December 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-ay97i9/mythical-creatures/ |title=Mythical Creatures |publisher=The Radio Times| access-date=2023-12-20}}</ref>