CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO: Drac's Brides was a project done through a packager, who sold the trilogy to Avon, which was part of Morrow, which merged with HarperCollins some few years back shortly before Zhameni was scheduled to come out. Apparently it was one of the things that dropped through the merger cracks. As far as I know, the packager hasn't resold the series.
10. Currently your website is off line. When will it be available again? I''d like to include a link.
CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO: I'm about to get ChelseaQuinnYarbro.net up and available. My old website has been offline for almost a year and a half, which is why I'll have a new one by mid-May, assuming all goes well.
11. Anything else you would like to tell the readers?
CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO: The Saint-Germain novels are called historical horror novels for a reason: history is horrifying. Compared to what people do to people, even a really hungry vampire is pretty small potatoes. I try to show the various periods as they saw themselves as much as I can, and to focus on the status and circumstances of women and the constraints of their societies. With those factors crucial to the nature of the story, quick reads are not really possible; it takes time to world-build, and to social-engineer. Context and environment function as tertiary characters in these stories even more than in the rest of my work, and as such, require explication beyond what I do in other genres.
Also, please do not give me any story ideas that guarantees I cannot use them, since the contractual requirements are that the story is original with me. And no, you may not write your own Saint-Germain stories or use him (or any of my characters) in stories of your own: that is copyright infringement, misappropriation, and a federal crime. If I used your ideas, I would be stealing from you: if you use my characters, you are stealing from me.
