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Tor has contracted for An Embarrassment of Riches (set in Bohemia, 1269-72) will be novel #22 in the Saint-Germain Chronicles; Commedia della Morte (France & Italy 1792-94) will be novel #23. (With two short stories collections, that makes them numbers 24 and 25, respectively in the Chronicles as a whole.)

Burning Shadows: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain (Saint-Germain Chronicles #23, novel #21) by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is available. In Burning Shadows, Yarbro looks at the legendary Huns from the perspective of the people who faced the brunt of their attacks. The vampire Saint-Germain seeks sanctuary at an isolated monastery, unwilling to abandon the hundreds of terrified villagers he has led in flight from the Huns. A few Roman soldiers and some village Watchmen are the monastery’s defense force—and they are undermined by the religious fervor of some of the monks, who argue that since everyone’s fate is in God’s hands, it is foolish to defend themselves. In the hothouse atmosphere of the high-walled monastery, Saint-Germain must take special care when slaking his vampire thirst, for discovery of his True Nature will result in his True Death. The novel is set in what is now known as Hungary and Romania during the early years of Hunnic aggression (430s).

BURNING SHADOWS reviews:

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award during the Horror Writers Association's 2009 Stoker Awards Weekend, June 14, 2009, in Burbank, California.

A Dangerous Climate: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain, the 20th novel and 22nd book in the St. Germain series, is now out in trade paperback as well as hardcover.

The vampire Count Saint-Germain, disguised as a missing Hungarian nobleman, is on a spy mission in the heart of Russia in the year 1704 as St. Petersburg in being founded. Almost by the power of his will alone, it seems, Peter the Great is wrestling the city that will one day be St. Petersburg out of swampland. Representatives of the heads of all European states are living in tiny, frigid, wooden homes as they jockey for power and influence over the Czar. When a man shows up claiming to be the Count Saint-Germain, the vampire must figure out how to protect his title and wealth without revealing either his true identity or his True Nature.

The Charlie Moon mysteries--Ogilvie, Tallant and Moon, Music When Sweet Voices Die, Poisonous Fruit , and Dead Mice--have been re-published by Ramble House.

The EBOOK EDITION of A MORTAL GLAMOUR by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is now available on Fictionwise. As is ALAS, POOR YORICK.

Borne in Blood (Saint-Germain Chronicles #22 (novel #19) is now available in trade paperback as well as hardcover.

A list of FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (and their answers) has been added to the site.

History News Network, who had asked CQY to write an article on writing CONFRONTATION AT LEPANTO by T.C.F. Hopkins, has posted the essay. ("T.C.F. Hopkins" is CQY's alter-ego.)