Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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| notableworks = The Saint-Germain Cycle

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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.

Biography

Yarbro was born in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley schools through high school followed by three years at San Francisco State College (now University).

In November 1969 she married Donald Simpson and divorced in February 1982. She has no children.

Writing for over 45 years, Yarbro has worked in a wide variety of genres, from science fiction to westerns, from young adult adventure to historical horror. She is the author of over 70 novels and numerous short stories. In addition to the Count Saint-Germain novels, she also has published numerous volumes in a popular series of channeled wisdom from the entity Michael in the Messages from Michael series.

Yarbro's contribution to the horror genre has been recognised in a variety of ways: she was named a Grand Master at the World Horror Convention in 2003, and in 2005 the International Horror Guild named her a "Living Legend".{{cite web|url=http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#2005|title=:: ihg ::International Horror Guild :: ihg ::|access-date=18 January 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031061140/http://horroraward.org/prevrec.html|archive-date=31 October 2014}} She has received the Knightly Order of the Brasov Citadel from the Transylvanian Society of Dracula.{{cite web|url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/chelseaquinnyarbro|title=Chelsea Quinn Yarbro|author=Macmillan|work=Macmillan|access-date=18 January 2016}} In 2009 the Horror Writers' Association presented Yarbro with the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award.{{cite web|url=http://horror.org/yarbro-wilson-win-lifetime-horror-award/|title=Yarbro, Wilson Win Lifetime Horror Award|work=Horror Writers Association Blog|date=25 January 2009|access-date=18 January 2016}} In 2014, she was honored with the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2014.html |title=World Fantasy Awards Home Page |access-date=2014-07-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714163609/http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2014.html |archive-date=2014-07-14 }} Additionally, two of her novels, The Palace (1979) and Ariosto (1980) were nominated for the World Fantasy Award, neither winning.[http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/ World Fantasy Awards] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/ |date=December 1, 2010 }}

In 2016, she reported that on average, she wrote three to four books and one or two short stories and/or essays a year. She wrote six hours per day, six days per week except when traveling. Five days a week she spent three to four hours doing research.{{cite web|url=http://www.chelseaquinnyarbro.net/bio.html|title=◊◊Chelsea Quinn Yarbro◊◊|access-date=18 January 2016}}

Aside from writing, she has worked as a cartographer, has read tarot cards and palms, and has composed music, all of which she continues to do. Over the years she has studied seven instruments, voice, and musical theory: composition, voice, and piano have continued to be active interests for her. The newsletter, Yclept Yarbro, about her and her writings has been published since 1995 by Lindig Hall Harris.{{cite web|url=http://www.hidden-knowledge.com/authors/yarbro/yarbroinfo.html|title=More about Chelsea Quinn Yarbro|access-date=18 January 2016}} She played a major role in popularizing The Eye of Argon, a novella that became part of widespread science fiction convention reading game.{{cite journal |last= Weinstein |first= Lee |date= November 2004 |title= In Search of "The Eye of Argon" |journal= The New York Review of Science Fiction |volume= 17 |number= 3, Issue 195 |pages= 1, 6–8 |location= Pleasantville, N.Y. |publisher= Dragon Press |issn= 1052-9438}}

Pseudonyms

Quinn Fawcett, for projects coauthored with Bill Fawcett
Trystam Kith, for the two volume Trouble in the Forest historical fantasy series featuring vampire antagonists
Terry Nelson Bonner, for the fifth volume of The Making of Australia series
T. C. F. Hopkins, for historical nonfiction
Camille Gabor, for the high fantasy series, The Vildecaz Talents
Vanessa Pryor, for the romance novel Taste of Wine

The Michael teachings

Messages from Michael is the first in a series of four books recounting three-decade-long "conversation" between a group of friends centered around Sarah Chambers (1937≠1998) with a channeled entity and spiritual teacher that has come to be known as Michael. As of September 2013 this conversation continues, as the Michael group continues to conduct closed sessions in the San Francisco Bay Area. A core concept of the teachings is "all choices made are equally valid."

Yarbro's book presented a heavily fictionalized version of Sarah Chambers' group, which gave Chambers the alias of "Jessica Lansing". The three subsequent books more contain edited channeling transcripts, along with background material.

Bibliography

Footnotes

References

{{cite book | last=Clute | first=John | author-link=John Clute |author2=John Grant | title=The Encyclopedia of Fantasy | location=New York | publisher=St. Martin's Press| pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffa00clutrich/page/n1064 1041]–1042 | year=1997 | isbn=0-88184-708-9| title-link=The Encyclopedia of Fantasy }}
{{cite book | last=Clute | first=John | author-link=John Clute |author2=Peter Nicholls |author-link2=Peter Nicholls (writer) | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction | location=New York| publisher=St. Martin's Griffin | pages=1357–1358 | year=1995|isbn=0-312-13486-X| title-link=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction }}
{{Citation

| last1 = Searles

| first1 = Baird

| author-link = Baird Searles

| last2 = Meacham

| first2 = Beth

| author2-link = Beth Meacham

| last3 = Franklin

| first3 = Michael

| title = A Reader's Guide to Fantasy

| publisher = Avon

| date = July 1982

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/readersguidetofa00sear/page/158 158–160]

| isbn = 0-380-80333-X

| url = https://archive.org/details/readersguidetofa00sear/page/158

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{{Cite book

| editor-last = Sullivan

| editor-first = Jack

| editor-link = Jack Sullivan (literary scholar)

| title = The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural

| publisher = Viking Press

| year = 1986

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/penguinencyclope00sull/page/470 470]

| isbn = 0-670-80902-0

| url = https://archive.org/details/penguinencyclope00sull/page/470

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External links

{{official website}}
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{{LCAuth|n79060717|Chelsea Quinn Yarbro|79|}}
[https://lccn.loc.gov/n97041022 Quinn Fawcett] (joint pseudonym of Yarbro and Bill Fawcett) at LC Authorities, with 12 records, and [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n97-041022 at WorldCat]

Category:1942 births

Category:Living people

Category:20th-century American novelists

Category:21st-century American novelists

Category:American science fiction writers

Category:American fantasy writers

Category:American horror writers

Category:Western (genre) writers

Category:American women short story writers

Category:American women novelists

Category:Pseudonymous women writers

Category:American women science fiction and fantasy writers