Jean Rabe

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.[1] She went on to work for TSR, Inc., and was the Director of the RPGA.[2] 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.[1] 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).[3]

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.[3] Her Dragons of a New Age trilogy consisted of Dawning of a New Age, Day of the Tempest, and Eve of the Maelstrom.[1] 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.[1] Rabe worked with Janet Pack on The Forces of Dagnarus for the Sovereign Stone role-playing game.[1]

She has also written short stories in the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and Star Wars settings, and for DAW Books.[1] Rabe has written more than four dozen short stories.[4] She has written science fiction stories for Martin H. Greenberg's office in Green Bay, Wisconsin,[1] 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.[1]

Rabe was the business manager and later the editor of the bimonthly SFWA Bulletin, published by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7]

In 2005, Rabe served as a juror for the Andre Norton Award for young adult fiction, which was established that year.[8]

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.

• "Rabe's website". Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.
• "Rabe's roleplaying game credits". Archived from the original on December 15, 2008.
• Jean Rabe at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database