Jean Rabe

Jean Rabe is a fantasy and science fiction author and editor who has worked on the "Dragonlance", "Forgotten Realms", and "BattleTech" series, as well as many others.
Career.
Early in her career, Rabe worked as a newspaper reporter and bureau chief for the "Quincy Herald-Whig" in Quincy, Illinois, then for the "Evansville Courier & Press" in Evansville, Indiana, and then as a stringer for the "Rockford Register Star". She went on to work for TSR, Inc., and was the Director of the RPGA. For TSR, she wrote magazine articles and novels, and wrote and edited Dungeons & Dragons and Gamma World gaming modules (see list below). Rabe became the editor of a BattleTech magazine, "MechForce Quarterly", in 1995. For Dragonlance, TSR had Rabe write the next major event in Krynn history after "Dragons of Summer Flame", resulting in the "Dragons of a New Age" trilogy, which began with TSR's "The Dawning of a New Age" (1996).
When Wizards of the Coast purchased TSR, they published the rest of Rabe's trilogy before bringing back Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman as the main chroniclers of Dragonlance. Her "Dragons of a New Age" trilogy consisted of "Dawning of a New Age", "Day of the Tempest", and "Eve of the Maelstrom". Her other Dragonlance work includes "Maquesta Kar-Thon", co-authored with Tina Daniell, and "The Silver Star". Her other work for TSR includes "Red Magic", "Secret of the Djinn", and "Night of the Tiger". Rabe worked with Janet Pack on "The Forces of Dagnarus" for the "Sovereign Stone" role-playing game.
She has also written short stories in the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and "Star Wars" settings, and for DAW Books. Rabe has written more than four dozen short stories. She has written science fiction stories for Martin H. Greenberg's office in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and coedited a number of all-original anthologies with Greenberg for DAW (see list below). Rabe has written articles for "On The Lake", a local magazine for tourists.
Rabe was the business manager and later the editor of the bimonthly "SFWA Bulletin", published by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. In June 2013, Rabe resigned the post in the course of a controversy about alleged sexism in "SFWA Bulletin" articles written by, among others, Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg.
Awards.
"Dragonlance: Death March" was nominated for the 2009 Special Gaming Scribe Award for Best Original gaming-related tie-in novel. The Scribe awards are given out by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers.
In 2005, Rabe served as a juror for the Andre Norton Award for young adult fiction, which was established that year.
Star Wars.
Three of her "Star Wars" short stories, "The Breath of Gelgelar", "Day of the Sepulchral Night", and "The Farrimmer Cafe", have been published in the "Star Wars Adventure Journals".