Cissy - Welcome everyone. We're chatting tonight with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro about her new book, Night Blooming - of The Chronicles of Saint-Germain. We'll be operating on protocol, so if you have questions for Chelsea, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
Cissy - yup, Barb
mary f - Hello Ronda
BadBarb - ronda
BadBarb - wb chelsea, Ronda did it
BadBarb - hi deagling
Cissy - Hi Ronda! Welcome to our chat with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
CQY - Sorry -- just got knocked off for a moment
RondaT - Oh, hi, didn't know a scheduled chat was going on and wondered what you guys were doing.
Cissy - Chelsea, before we go on to Q&A, can we get you to tell us about NIGHT BLOOMING?
CQY - Thanks for having me
deagling - Good Evening, Everyone
BadBarb - stay, stay, I promise not to behave
RondaT - I'm ducking out because I only had a minute to chat and don't want to disrupt things. See you all later
BadBarb - ?
CQY - Night Blooming is the 15th in the Saint Germain cycle, set in the court of Karl-lo-Magne
Mac - Hiya, Ronda
Mac - That'll teach me to type faster next time.
CQY - Saint-Germain comes there and becomes involved with the albino stigmatic, Gynethe Mehaut
CQY - Eventally he takes her to Rome for the Pope to settle her fate
CQY - The period is very rich and barbaric
Cissy - wow, sounds intense, Chelsea...
CQY - And, of course things don't go well -- if they did, I wouldn't have a story
Cissy - of course!
CQY - By the way, the book is dedicated to Wiley
Cissy - wow, really??
Cissy - congrats, Wiley
CQY - Also, Olivia puts in an appearance.
WileyS - thanks again
CQY - Yep -- this one is Wiley's
Cissy - Okay, let's go on to questions - ladies, break them out. I know you have them! If you have questions for Chelsea, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
Cissy - BadBarb has the first question (no one in line)
BadBarb - ?
BadBarb - oh sorry Cissy thought you missed my first ?
CQY - Do I have to guess?
BadBarb - Hi Chelsea how much of your time is taken up with research?
BadBarb - congrats Wiley
CQY - It depends on the book -- a minimum of six months, a maximum of a year
CQY - of course, I work on other projects while I research, or I couldn't pay the rent
Cissy - what about this book, Chelsea?
BadBarb - brb anyone want any?
CQY - This one took about eight months, and a month to outline, and six months to write, a bit longer than usual
Cissy - forgive my ignorance, Chelsea, but is The Chronicles of Saint-Germain a series?
CQY - Yes, there are sixteen books in the cycle, fifteen novels so far, and one short story collection
WileyS - ?
CQY - The sixteenth hasn't been published yet, of course
Cissy - oh wow, Chelsea, I'm definitely out of the loop here. For the benefit of those like me, can you bring us up to speed on the series?
BadBarb - ?
CQY - It started in 1978 with Hotel Transylvania, then The Palace, Blood Games, Path of the Eclipse, Tempting Fate, the Saint-Germain Chronicles
Celeste -
BadBarb - hi granma
Cissy - Hi granma Welcome to our chat with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. We're talking with Chelsea about her new book, Night Blooming - of The Chronicles of Saint-Germain. We'll be operating on protocol, so if you have questions for Chelsea, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
CQY - After a gap of seven years, Darker Jewels, Better in the Dark, Mansions of Darkness, Writ in Blood, Blood Roses, Communion Blood, A Feast in Exile, and Night Blooming. Wiley, have I left anything out?
WileyS - I think they are all there
WileyS - plus Midnight Harvest next year
granma16 - hello new at this forgive any mistakes
CQY - There are also associated books, the three Oliva books and two Madelains
Cissy - no problem, granma16
BadBarb - ooh granma is a virgin chatter
Cissy - no too many virgin granma's around
Cissy - WileyS has the next question (BadBarb, Celeste in line)
Mac - lol
granma16 - oh gracious me. easy girls
vaddra - hi all
Cissy - Hi vaddra Welcome to our chat with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. We're talking with Chelsea about her new book, Night Blooming - of The Chronicles of Saint-Germain. We'll be operating on protocol, so if you have questions for Chelsea, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
WileyS - My question was has Stealth Press set the dates for the reprints of Blood Games, Path of the Eclipse, and Saint-Germain Chronicles. The website does not have info
WileyS - about the reprint dates yet. Just wondered if you had heard
mary f - Hello Vad
CQY - So far as I know, Stealth isn't doing any more reprints, but I have no formal reversion from them. On the other hand, Warner will reprint Blood Games next year.
vaddra - hey Mary
WileyS - thanks
CQY - And, next spring, The Palace. Talk about the folly of youth returning to haunt one -- but I do like The Palace
Cissy - BadBarb has the next question (Celeste in line)
BadBarb - Chelsea is there any one of these books that is a personal favorite? Hi Vaddra!!! and yeah on the reprints!!!!
CQY - Always -- the next one!
vaddra - hey BadBarb
BadBarb - can you tell us about the next one?
CQY - The one I'm researching right now -- working title Dark of the Sun about the worldwide environmental catastrophe of 535-536 AD
CQY - But, of course, Warner hasn't bought it yet
Cissy - I don't think you have to worry too much though, Chelsea
CQY - From your lips to my editor's ear!
Cissy - Celeste has the next question (no one in line)
CQY - Saint-Germain has only recently moved to Warner, so nothing's certain.
BadBarb - ?
Celeste - Chelsea, have all your books been in the Le Comte de Saint-Germain series or if not, have they all been fantasy/horror?
CQY - No, far from it. I've done mysteries, too, young adult, science fiction, westerns, you name it. I've sold book #73 and I've been writing professionally for 34 years
Celeste - sorry for my ignorance
Cissy - see we're all learning stuff tonight!
CQY - Among all of it, four books of occult non-fiction, too
BadBarb - hehe Celeste, I think fell out of her chair
Cissy - ?
Cissy - BadBarb has the next question (Cissy in line)
mary f - ?
BadBarb - Chelsea do you have a favorite scene you would like to share with us?
CQY - Celeste, no need to apologize. Most of my relatives don't know, either
CQY - Actually, I'm probably the last person to advise you on that. It's much too close to the whole process for me to know.
CQY - When I work on anything, I'm much too close to it, and afterwards, I'm much too close to the next project to tell you what a favorite is
vaddra - ?
Cissy - Cissy has the next question (mary f in line)
Cissy - Chelsea, what's your favorite genre to write in?
CQY - But I do keep coming back to history and horror
Cissy - well... but if you've done mysteries, young adult, westerns and occult... those are some pretty wide variations
Cissy - well that would be an answer
CQY - They're all just various ways to tell a story, and mainly, I like to tell stories.
Cissy - that makes sense
Cissy - maryf has the next question (vaddra in line)
mary f - Chelsea, What made you pick that historical setting?
CQY - If you mean the Carolingian setting of Night Blooming, it was the state of the culture that supported the story. For me, the environment, including the culture, is a tertiary character, and this book was no exception
Celeste -
Cissy - vaddra has the next question (Celeste in line)
vaddra - Chelsea,I have a couple questions first, what kind of sci-fi do you write. 2. do you write paranormals, and 3. do you write under your own name or a different name?I have to admit I don't think I've read any of your books but I'm off to the book store this weekend and I'd like to pick up a couple
CQY - This kind of story could only happen in a culture with certain expectations and structures, which that society had,
CQY - I do some of the mysteries with Bill Fawcett as Quinn Fawcett. I tend to dystopic s-f, most of which is out of print, although there is a new edition of False Dawn out from Babbage Press.
CQY - As to the paranormals, some would argue that horror falls in that category.
Cissy - Celeste has the next question (no one in line)
deagling has timed out.
WileyS - !
vaddra - thank you Chelsea
CQY - Incidentally, I think that Warner deserves much thanks for the really beautiful covers on Hotel Transylvania and Night Blooming
Celeste - Chelsea, I've already admitted my ignorance about your book (even though I recognized your name right away....can you tell me of the main character in you Le Comte de Saint-Germain series has romantic encounters (other than probably sucking blood from some damsels neck) and is he a sympathic vampire (not totally evil)?
Cissy - comment, wiley?
CQY - Saint-Germain is the Good Guy -- it's people who cause the trouble. He's honorable, compassionate, intelligent, cultured, and very attentive about his partners.
Cissy - he sounds wonderful
CQY - A lot of people seem to think so.
WileyS - I was going to say that I'd be happy to send a complete list of Quinn's books to anyone interested, just email me at Wiley20658@aol.com
Celeste - I definitely need to read some of the series then.
CQY - Heaps of thanks, Wiley!
WileyS - I
Cissy - Tell us again what you're working on now, Chelsea?
Cissy - go ahead, Wiley
Celeste - It wasn't that long ago that some of by cyber friends got me to try the Laurell K. Hamilton Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, and I was hooked even though they are not romances per se (which is fine as I also enjoy myteries)
CQY - At the moment, I'm working on a proposal for a young adult novel, doing reseach on Dark of the Sun and working on another Quinn Fawcett with Bill.
CQY - Tha and three short stories
WileyS - LOL did not mean to type extra I, sorry
Cissy - And NIGHT BLOOMING is on shelves now, right?
CQY - I sincerely hope so!
CQY - So is the Hotel Transylvania reprint
Cissy - Chelsea, hard to believe, but our hour's up! Thanks so much for chatting with us tonight!
CQY - If you want more of them, buy these so Warner will understand
CQY - Thanks for having me
WileyS - thanks for the chat!
WileyS - thanks for the chat!
CQY - Call me
vaddra - thanks CHelsea
Cissy - Thanks again, Chelsea!
CQY - You're more than welcome
WileyS - will do
mary f - Thanks for the chat, Chelsea
CQY - Any time
WileyS - Cissy, thanks for hosting
Cissy - No problem! Please come chat with us again soon
CQY - Yes, thanks. This was fun
Celeste - thanks for taking the time to chat with us Chelsea
CQY - My pleasure