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I am a Narrative Designer and Game Writer with professional experience in MMORPG development and interactive storytelling. I am a published, award-winning author and translator specializing in SF&F, with official translations for Peter Watts and Stephen King, and a strong focus on worldbuilding, character-driven narratives, and player engagement across games and fiction.…

Elena Pavlova

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I am a Narrative Designer and Game Writer with professional experience in MMORPG development and interactive storytelling. I am a published, award-winning author and translator specializing in SF&F, with official translations for Peter Watts and Stephen King, and a strong focus on worldbuilding, character-driven narratives, and player engagement across games and fiction.…

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I am a Narrative Designer and Game Writer with professional experience in MMORPG development and interactive storytelling.

I am a published, award-winning author and translator specializing in SF&F, with official translations for Peter Watts and Stephen King, and a strong focus on worldbuilding, character-driven narratives, and player engagement across games and fiction.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Beginner

Beginner

Language

Bulgarian

Fluent

English

Fluent

Russian

Fluent

French

Advanced

Chinese

Advanced

Spanish; Castilian

Beginner

Work Experience

Game Writer at Beast Burst Entertainment

May 1, 2022 - February 1, 2026

Sole Game Writer and Narrative Designer for the upcoming MMORPG Scars of Honor. Contributed to worldbuilding, story arcs, character backstories, quest dialogues, and lore; created a lore bible used by multiple departments; authored in-game texts, dialogues, narrative documentation, story-related website info, briefs for concept artists and audio teams, and internal creative materials.

Freelance Writer & Translator at Self-employed / Freelance

January 1, 2001 - Present

Wrote and published more than 10 books for Middle Grade and Young Adult, 2 books for adults, 4 short stories collections and 6 game-books. Translated over 30 books for noted authors; edited and copywrote more than 20 books; won multiple national and international writing and translation awards.

Game Writer at Haemimont Games

March 1, 2001 - December 1, 2001

Initial worldbuilding; character creation; trailer and opening movie sequence scripting; game design on a very limited basis.

Game-book Writer at Pleyada & Mega

April 1, 1995 - April 1, 1998

Wrote 24 game-books (some award-winning), including classic and 'strategic' game-books; also wrote non-fiction for Mega Game-book Magazine.

Game Writer & Narrative Designer at Beast Burst Entertainment

May 1, 2022 - February 28, 2026

Sole Game Writer and Narrative Designer for the upcoming MMORPG Scars of Honor. Contributed to worldbuilding, including the initial creation of the world and its map (later updated by the current GD team), development of story arcs, character backstories, quest dialogues, and lore with a strong historical foundation. Created a lore bible used by multiple departments. Authored all narrative content across the project, including in-game texts and dialogues (in progress), narrative documentation, story-related website info, briefs for concept artists and audio teams, and internal creative materials.

Freelance Writer & Translator at Self-employed / Bulgaria

January 1, 2001 - Present

Independent writer and translator based in Bulgaria. Wrote and published more than 10 books for Middle Grade and Young Adult, 2 books for adults, 4 short story collections and 6 game-books. Translated more than 30 books for authors such as Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Peter Watts (shortlisted for Krastan Dyankov award for translation for 'Blindsight'), Alastair Reynolds, Nicholas Eams, Ian C. Esslemont, Isaak Asimov, Roger Zelazny and others. Edited and copywrote more than 20 books. Won creative writing & translation awards including Bulgarian Konstantin Konstantinov for Best Children Author, Eurocon Best Work for Children, Eurocon Best Translator, and SLF Diverse Worlds Grant; shortlisted for BSFA Best Translation.