Lucy Keating

Romance Novelist, Narrative Designer

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

About

Experience

  • Developmental Editor at 831 Stories
    Nov 2025 - Present · 9 mos

  • Series Entertainment (Full-time · 1 yr 11 mos)
    • Lead Narrative Designer
      Oct 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

      • Managed narrative design for multiple Netflix IF titles. "The Ultimatum: Choices" achieved the highest retention of any Netflix interactive fiction property. • Mentored a team of 10 writers, fostering creative growth while ensuring narrative quality. • Built scalable narrative frameworks that blend authored storytelling with emergent, AI-driven dialogue, ensuring cohesion across diverse interactive experiences. • Developed experimental short-form storytelling projects leveraging AI-generated video.

    • Senior Narrative Designer
      Dec 2023 - Sep 2024 · 10 mos

  • Narrative Designer at Crazy Maple Studio, Inc.
    Oct 2020 - Dec 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    • Adapt existing book properties into serialized mobile stories and enticing chat fiction characters. • Lead story rooms and supervise contract writers. • Developed and wrote “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” an IP collaboration with Netflix.

  • YA Author at HarperCollins Publishers
    Jun 2014 - Jul 2022 · 8 yrs 2 mos

    Author of three contemporary YA romance novels: DREAMOLOGY, LITERALLY, and RIDE WITH ME.

  • Story Lead at Radish Fiction
    Feb 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

    • Developed and wrote some of the earliest chat fiction romance stories. • Led story development rooms for serialized romance fiction.