Since Charis has other, more important problems to deal with, she doesn’t worry too much about the age matter, particularly since she doesn’t quite believe him, just as she has lingering doubts about his undead state. The age disparity becomes an issue in these stories when it is significant to his partner and less so when the partner isn’t bothered by it, or has other concerns that supercede the age matter-which is most of them. He’s been rattling around in my head since about 1971, and I’ve learned to go where he goes, as I’ve mentioned already. What do you feel adds to or changes writing about a relationship between characters with that much disparity in age?ĬQY: He’s a little over four thousand years old, proto-Etruscan, born to a warlord in what is now Transylvania. VRP: Saint-Germain is thousands of years old.
Check in with me in a decade, and if I’m still here, I may have an answer for you. Am I impressed by what appears to be Saint-Germain’s legacy? That’s a long and complicated question, and whatever answer I might provide would, at this point, be incomplete. Just now, I’m not reading mysteries or ghost stories, and, for that matter, vampire stories, and so most of my sense of the genres is out of synch with most readers’. Think of Tulsi Kil in A Feast in Exile.īecause I don’t read in the genre in which I’m writing at any given time, I’m perpetually behind on what’s out there.
How do you reflect on that aspect of the genre as it has changed over time? Are you impressed by any of your literary descendants?Ĭhelsea Quinn Yarbro: The thing is, I don’t think of him as a romantic hero, I think of him as a way to look at the lives of women in other periods and cultures-the ultimate outsider by virtue of his nature and his longevity, who can see women’s lives the way their contemporaries, and sometimes the women themselves, cannot. Vanessa Rose Phin: With the character of Saint-Germain, who first appears in Hotel Transylvania (1978) and in over twenty volumes since, you’ve been credited as having originated the vampire as romantic hero. This interview was conducted by email in August 2015, after an unexpected acquaintance at a conference bar. Her novel Hotel Transylvania was among six nominated for the Horror Writers Association onetime Stoker award for the Most Significant Vampire Novel of the Twentieth Century. She has sold over ninety books and more than ninety works of short fiction, essays, and reviews in a variety of genres. This interview is part of our 2015 fund drive bonus issue! Read more about Strange Horizons' funding model, or donate, here.Ĭhelsea Quinn Yarbro has been a professional writer for forty-seven years.
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