News Juno Editor/Paula Guran on 28 Jan 2009 09:15 pm
Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Horror Writers Association has announced that this year’s winners of their Lifetime Achievement Award and I am very pleased to report they are Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and F. Paul Wilson. Quinn is, of course, a “Juno Author” and a long-time friend. Paul may not be a Juno author, but I’ve known him even longer than I’ve known Quinn.
Quinn is a true pioneer in speculative fiction and without her imagination *your* concept of vampires might be very different indeed. To crib from her bio:
Yarbro is best known as the creator of the heroic vampire, the Count Saint-Germain. With her creation of Saint-Germain, she delved into history and vampiric literature and subverted the standard myth to invent the first vampire who was more honorable, humane, and heroic than most of the humans around him. The world and its mortal inhabitants, not the vampires, are forces of darkness in Yarbro’s long-running “historical horror” series. She fully meshed the vampire with romance and accurately detailed historical fiction and filtered it through a feminist perspective that both the giving of sustenance and its taking were of equal erotic potency. Yarbro’s novels are notable for laying the groundwork for the 1990s upsurge of “paranormal romance” and trans-genre fiction.
So. Huzzah!