Jacqueline Rayner
Jacqueline Rayner is a British author, best known for her work with the licensed fiction based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". Biography. Her first professional writing credit came when she adapted Paul Cornell's Virgin New Adventure novel "Oh No It Isn't!" for the audio format, the first release by Big Finish. (The novel featured the character of Bernice Summerfield and was part of a spin-off series from "Doctor Who".) She went on to do five of the six Bernice Summerfield audio adaptations and further work for Big Finish before  going to work for BBC Books on their "Doctor Who" lines. Her first novels came in 2001, with the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel "EarthWorld" for BBC Books and the Bernice Summerfield novel "The Squire's Crystal" for Big Finish. Rayner has written several other "Doctor Who" spin-offs and was also for a period the executive producer for the BBC on the Big Finish range of "Doctor Who" audio dramas. She has also contributed to the audio range as a writer. In all, her "Doctor Who" and related work (Bernice Summerfield stories), consists of five novels, a number of short  stories and four original audio plays. Rayner has edited several anthologies of "Doctor Who" short stories, mainly for Big Finish, and done work for "Doctor Who Magazine". Beyond "Doctor Who", her work includes the children's television tie-in book "Horses Like Blaze". With the start of the new television series of "Doctor Who" in 2005 and a shift in the BBC's "Doctor Who" related book output, Rayner has become, along with Justin Richards and Stephen Cole, one of the regular authors of the BBC's New Series Adventures. She has also abridged several of the books to be  made into audiobooks. Rayner was a member of the original Time Team of "Doctor Who Magazine".