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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Biography

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born September 15, 1942) is an American writer. She is known for her series of historical horror novels about the vampire Count Saint-Germain.

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Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

Ghouls, Odd, Philosophy, Vampire

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

Goes On, Page, Pages, Real, Surprise

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

Art, Fate, Moving, Power, Unarmed

I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

Cook, Hands, Hard, Knees, Opera

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

Fast, Lists, Pay, Pays, Write, Writing

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

Attending, Break, Conventions, Isolation, Nice, Writing

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

9Th, Common, Common Folk, Folk, Lasts, Names

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

Character, Characters, Create, Involved, Plot, Stories

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.

Careers, Given, Journeyman, Think, Thinking, Time

I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.

Give, Giving, Like, Pages, Real, Two

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

Collaborator, Collaborators, General, Good

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Editors, Goal, Goals, Heresy, Thank, Worry

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