Elizabeth "Archangel Beth" McCoy (born 5 November 1971) is a writer and editor in the

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industry at

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She and her husband Walter Milliken wrote the award-winning supplement ''

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''. She was the line editor for the ''

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'' role-playing game. In a lawsuit that received national attention and led to the establishment of the

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, McCoy, Milliken and Steve Jackson successfully sued the

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in 1993 for illegally seizing computers and electronic information.

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