Building worlds for curious minds.

Currently based near St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, Deb Chantson is a freelance Writer/Narrative Designer for games, television, and interactive digital media. Her career spans nearly 20 years, specializing in preschool and educational projects. Deb was the sole Writer/Narrative Designer on Rooster and the newest unannounced title at Sticky Brain Studios. She has written for 8 series (television/interactive) including The Snoopy Show and Odd Squad Gaming Unit, as a Co-Head Writer for an unannounced animated preschool series, several games in development, blogs for Sony PlayStation, and several featured blogs on GameDeveloper.com. Her debut novel, Past Perfect Vacation, was published by Omnific Publishing on Valentine’s Day, 2025 and is distributed by Simon & Schuster in both ebook and paperback. Along with LB Tran and Graham Kent, Deb narrated the Past Perfect Vacation audiobook herself. Her next novel, Quiet Billionaire Housewife, is coming soon from Ciolna Press.

Deb has delivered talks/webinars on a variety of subjects such as cultural traits as game mechanics, cultural game development, funding application tips, networking etiquette, and career launching for writers through the Game Developers Conference, Game Devs of Color Expo, Purdue University, Vancouver Film School, Warner Bros. Discovery Access / Pixelles, Full Indie Summit, and East By Northwest (EXNW). She is a Writers Guild of Canada member and a Certified Accessible Player Experiences® Practitioner. She identifies as Canadian-South African-Chinese-American.