She wrote, produced, and directed commercials related to the property for Warner Home video, PlayStation, and Game Boy, and developed Mary-Kate and Ashley dolls and boardgames for Mattel. She was the primary provider of original content for the mary-kateandashley website and creator and co-executive producer of mary-kateandashley brand video games for PlayStation 2 and Game Boy. Hurley was co-creator and co-producer of the sitcom So Little Time ( ABC Family) and the animated Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action! ( ABC) both starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. She has written and directed book trailers for her own books and co-wrote and co-directed two stop-motion music videos for Erasure – ' Gaudete' and ' Make It Wonderful'. She wrote a feature-length script, Good Mourning, which made the semi-finals of the Sundance Institute's Writer's Lab. Best Friend (2001) premiered at the 2002 Tribeca Film Festival and Edinburgh Film Festival and was broadcast on Trio.

Her work includes Kiss My Brain (1997) The Biblical Real World (1998) Solo-Me-O (1999), first broadcast on PBS in their documentary series Reel New York and Baptism of Solitude: A Tribute To Paul Bowles (2000), a Tribeca Film Festival selection which aired on the Independent Film Channel, nominated for a Rockefeller Foundation Award in film, and distributed on a DVD through The United Nations. Hurley began her career as a music publicist for artists such as Prince, George Michael, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Bush, Erasure, Morrissey, The B-52’s, Paul Westerberg, John Cale, The Three Tenors and Johnny Rotten, among others.

Her books are published in nearly 30 countries and in more than 20 languages. The Blessed audiobook is read by Moonrise Kingdom star Kara Hayward. A third novel entitled Hallowed followed up in 2015. Precious Blood, the first book in The Blessed trilogy, was published in 2012, and Passionaries, the second book, was released January 7, 2013. She is also an author of young adult fiction, including the New York Times bestselling book series ghostgirl. Her work with them continued in Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!, spanning 4 episodes, and as co-executive producer of various tie-in video games. Tonya Hurley is an American writer and director in film, television, live performance, and interactive media, known as co-creator and co-producer of the 2001 television series So Little Time, which featured the Olsen twins.

Ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley