Jean Rabe is an American journalist, editor, gamer and writer of fantasy and mystery.
15 Facts About Jean Rabe
Jean Rabe served the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as business manager and editor of the association's SFWA Bulletin until 2013.
Jean Rabe wrote her first "Piper Blackwell mystery" novel in 2018 and has published five books in the series.
Jean Rabe subsequently took up the game as a hobby and social activity.
Jean Rabe graduated from Northern Illinois with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism.
Jean Rabe later worked as a stringer for the Rockford Register Star.
Jean Rabe used her writing skills to create magazine articles and novels.
Jean Rabe became the editor of a BattleTech magazine, MechForce Quarterly, in 1995.
For Dragonlance, TSR had Jean 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.
Jean Rabe worked with Janet Pack on The Forces of Dagnarus for the Sovereign Stone role-playing game.
Jean Rabe has written more than four dozen short stories, including stories set in the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and Star Wars settings.
Jean Rabe 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.
Jean Rabe has written articles for On The Lake, a local magazine for tourists.
In 2005, Jean Rabe served as a juror for the Andre Norton Award for young adult fiction, which was established that year.
Jean Rabe was the business manager and later the editor of the bimonthly SFWA Bulletin, published by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.