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. Early life. Jean Rabe was born in Ottawa, Illinois, and learned to play games at an early age — checkers, chess, and euchre by the age of 7, and board wargames in high school. In 1974 she enrolled in journalism at Northern Illinois University. In her junior year, while attending the inaugural Windycon games convention, she was introduced to the fantasy role-playing game "Dungeons & Dragons", which had just been published by  TSR earlier that year. She subsequently took up the game as a hobby and social activity. She graduated from Northern Illinois with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism. Career. After graduating from university, Rabe worked as a newspaper reporter and bureau chief for the "Quincy Herald-Whig" in Quincy, Illinois, before moving to the "Evansville Courier & Press" in Evansville, Indiana. She then worked as a stringer for the "Rockford Register Star". She was hired by TSR as the Director of the RPGA. She also used her writing skills to create magazine articles and novels. In addition, Rabe wrote and edited  Dungeons & Dragons and Gamma World adventure 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 for Krynn after "Dragons of Summer Flame", which came to be the "Dragons of a New Age" trilogy, beginning with "The Dawning of a New Age" (1996). When Wizards of the Coast purchased TSR, they published the rest of Rabe's "Dragons of a New Age" trilogy before bringing back Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman as the main authors 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 more than four dozen short stories, including those set in the "Dragonlance", "Forgotten Realms", and "Star Wars" settings. 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". 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 Books(see list below). Rabe has also written articles for "On The Lake", a local magazine for tourists. In 2005, Rabe served as a juror for the Andre Norton Award for young adult fiction, which was established that year. 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 — awarded by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers — for "Best Original gaming-related tie-in novel of 2009.