{{Short description|American writer}} '''Jeff Crook''' is an American novelist, author, and former technical writer for the United States Postal Service.<ref name=telegraph/>
==Works== Jeff Crook's first Dragonlance novel, ''The Rose and the Skull'', was published in March 1999.<ref name="wizardsbio">{{cite web|url=http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/Bios/default.aspx?doc=JeffCrook|title=Jeff Crook|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224004028/http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/Bios/default.aspx?doc=JeffCrook|archivedate=February 24, 2009}}</ref> His other novels for the Dragonlance setting include ''The Thieves' Guild'' (2000), ''Conundrum'' (2001), and ''Dark Thane'' (2003).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/jeff_crook|title=Jeff Crook}}</ref> One of Crook's stories was also included in the 2000 Dragonlance anthology, ''Rebels and Tyrants''.<ref name="wizardsbio"/> His story, "The Fractal," appeared in ''Relics and Omens'', his poetry in "The Final Word," and his ''AD&D'' adventures in ''Dungeon'' Magazine.<ref name="wizardsbio"/> He was later the editor of ''Campaigns'', the newsletter for the Southern Realms region of the RPGA.<ref name="wizardsbio"/> He has also had short stories published in the anthology ''The Search for Magic: Tales from the War of Souls'' (2001), and co-authored ''Bertrem's Guide to the War of Souls, Volume One'' (2001).
Crook also wrote short stories for the ''Sovereign Stone'' world setting.<ref name="designers">{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7|pages=352}}</ref>
Crook co-designed the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' sourcebook, ''Champions of Ruin'', published in 2005 for the Forgotten Realms setting.
Crook also wrote a paranormal murder mystery set in Memphis, Tennessee called ''The Sleeping and the Dead'',<ref name=commercial>{{cite journal | url=https://www.questia.com/read/1P2-33527037 | author=Chapterorg, Lyda Phillips | title=Murder Mystery set in Paranormal Memphis | journal=The Commercial Appeal | date=August 26, 2012}}{{dl|date=July 2021}}</ref> which centers on the life of a former police detective named Jackie Lyons who has the ability to see the dead.<ref name=telegraph>{{cite news | url=https://www.questia.com/read/1P2-33228512 | author=Foster, Mary | title=Offbeat Characters Populate Dark Mystery | work=Telegraph-Herald | date=July 15, 2012 }}{{dl|date=July 2021}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://jeffcrook.blogspot.com/ Jeff Crook's blog] *{{cite web |url=http://www.pen-paper.net:80/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=8124 |archive-date=January 14, 2005 |title=Jeff Crook :: Pen & Paper RPG Database |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050114193328/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=8124 |access-date=February 2, 2020 }}
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