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Shannon Gilligan

Shannon Gilligan began working with Choose Your Own Adventure in 1981, when she was hired to project manage the development of a Choose Your Own Adventure: Escape into a video game for the first Atari console. She continued her involvement with Choose by writing several bestsellers in the series, including Cup of Death, Ghost Island, and The Lake Monster Mystery. In the early 1990s, Gilligan was evangelized by Apple to develop software for the Mac. Her mystery game "Who Killed Sam Rupert?" subsequently became the first game to include Quicktime, the earliest commercially distributed video playback software for personal computers. Gilligan continued to develop software for the Mac and the PC for several years, and produced and directed Comic Creator, voted Best Software of the Year by People Magazine in 1995. In 2006, she co-founded Chooseco LLC with R. A. Montgomery, as a purpose-built publishing house for the re-launch of the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Gilligan has overseen the sales of over 15 million copies of CYOA in the past decade, while expanding licensing of the Chooseco catalog into film, board games, and now interactive audiobooks. In 2012, Gilligan conceived and wrote the script for the prototype of Choose Your Own Adventure Choose 'Toons, interactive cartoons based on Ray's bestselling title for younger readers, Your Very Own Robot. Since the series re-launch, Gilligan has written several more CYOA bestsellers including Princess Island and Unicorn Princess.

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  • Cover of: The Case of the Silk King: Choose Your Own Adventure #53

    Cover of edition caseofsilkking0000gill_y7s8 First published in 1986 — 10 editions
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    Cover of edition mysteryofurasenk0000shan Cover of edition mysteryofurasenk0000gill First published in 1985 — 8 editions
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  • Cover of: The Lake Monster Mystery

    First published in 1983 — 3 editions
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    First published in 1986 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Showdown: Choose Your Own Adventure #127

    First published in 1992 — 3 editions
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    First published in 1985 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Mona is missing

    First published in 1984 — 3 editions
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    First published in 2014 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Terror in Australia: Choose Your Own Adventure #81

    First published in 1988 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The terrorist trap

    First published in 1991 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Search for Champ

    First published in 1983 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The three wishes

    First published in 1984 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Das Gespenst ohne Kopf

    First published in 2005 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2016 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Ghost Island

    First published in 2008 — 1 edition
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Subjects

Children's fiction, Plot-your-own stories, Juvenile fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Fiction, Adventure stories, Mystery and detective stories, collectionID:CYOAyouth, Detective and mystery stories, Adventure and adventurers, Camps, Ghost stories, Livres dont vous êtes le héros, Princesses, collectionID:CYOA2, collectionID:CYOA3, ABC Weekend Specials, Adapted for Television, Ancient Civilization, Archaeological expeditions, Archaeology, Asia, fiction, Caribbean area, fiction, Champlain, lake, fiction, Children: Grades 4-6

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Australia, Japan, Thailand

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James Harrison Wilson Thompson (b. 1906), Jim Thompson (b. 1906)

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1945-

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March 10, 2022 Edited by tmanarl bio
March 10, 2022 Edited by tmanarl Added new photo
August 20, 2008 Edited by an anonymous user fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import