Chelsea Quinn Yarbro — American Writer born on September 15, 1942,

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is an American writer. She is known for her series of historical horror novels about the vampire Count Saint-Germain... (wikipedia)

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.
I'm not a good collaborator in general.
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.
I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.