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December 4, 2017
“A Hunting We Will Go” (BEES)
From Friday, November 24, 2017 (The Day After Thanksgiving):
I finished carving and scavenging the turkey carcass around 1:30 a.m. last night. (Not that I was working all the time up to then. The festivities wound down around 5:30 p.m., and everyone subsided into a digestive meditation, emerging periodically for a piece of pie or a handful of Moose Munch. Everybody fell asleep around 9 p.m., including me and the dogs.)
Below is a new Excerpt (“Daily Lines”) from GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM G...
November 22, 2017
“My father?” (BEES)
Given that it is Thanksgiving… what are y’all making for dinner?
Ours is pretty traditional – fruit-stuffed turkey (no bread stuffing, because I hate stuffing and I do the cooking) roasted on a bed of apples, carrots, grapes and small potatoes, with rosemary-suffused olive oil rubbed under the skin. Candied yams, because… Thanksgiving. Mashed potatoes (I don’t like those, either, but husband and younger daughter love them) with gravy (using the pan juices from the turkey, with broth from Pen...
November 13, 2017
“A Bit of Trouble?” (BEES excerpt)
A recent New York Times article about the Starz Outlander TV show, titled “‘Outlander’ Finally Unveiled Jamie’s Big Secret; Here’s How the Writers Did It.” by Jennifer Vineyard, implied that my next book, GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE, might be finished soon. Vineyard stated that “Gabaldon is putting the finishing touches on Book 9.”
This is certainly not the case (see my hashtags, below). Ms. Vineyard should have checked with me first; I am not di...
November 5, 2017
DRAGONFLY 25th Anniversary Edition!
This post was made by Diana’s Webmistress:
A new special hardcover edition of DRAGONFLY IN AMBER was released in the U.S.A. and select global markets on October 24, 2017, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its initial publication. It features a beautiful new cover, a new introduction by Diana and a reader’s group guide. DRAGONFLY is the second major novel in Diana’s best-selling OUTLANDER series. The popular Starz Outlander TV series is based on these novels.
An event with Diana to celebra...
July 25, 2017
“Taking Leave” (BEES) & Happy News!
The family is thrilled and delighted to announce the safe arrival of a lovely baby boy. 9 pounds, 2 ounces, a very solid citizen with extremely good lungs. His parents haven’t yet decided on a name and we won’t know for sure what color his hair is until he has his first bath tomorrow, but we love him dearly, and are so grateful to all of you for your thoughts, good wishes, prayers and sweet gifts. Moran taing!
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July 5, 2017
Denver Comic Con Fun
Had a fabulous weekend at the Denver Comic Con (and got to zip up to Ft. Collins and visit daughter, son-in-law, and incipient grandchild, which was lovely)!
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I did a panel (so to speak) with the delightful Andrew Gower (or, as he modestly styled himself, “Shortbread-biscuit Man”—i.e., Bonnie Prince Charlie in the Outlander TV show), and had a great time. Did a few other panels on things like complex villains, the process of adapting a book to the s...
June 7, 2017
SEVEN STONES on June 27, 2017!
Alrighty, then! Penguin Random House (U.S. and U.K.) and I are delighted to announce that SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL comes out June 27th!
(For those who’ve just stopped by…this is NOT (repeat NOTNOTNOT) Book Nine. SEVEN STONES is a collection of “Outlander short fiction”—i.e., novellas. (Not all that short, either, but these things are relative…. the individual novellas run from 30,000-50,000 words each, so this is a fairly substantial book.)
So, to introduce the book, every week we’ll ha...
SEVEN STONES on June 27!
Alrighty, then! Penguin Random House (U.S. and U.K.) and I are delighted to announce that SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL comes out June 27th!
(For those who’ve just stopped by…this is NOT (repeat NOTNOTNOT) Book Nine. SEVEN STONES is a collection of “Outlander short fiction”—i.e., novellas. (Not all that short, either, but these things are relative…. the individual novellas run from 30,000-50,000 words each, so this is a fairly substantial book.)
So, to introduce the book, every week we’ll ha...
June 3, 2017
Happy Outlander Day!
From Thursday, June 1, 2017
You know, if there’s something you want to do… I think you should just go ahead and start doing it, and see what happens.
That’s what I did, twenty-nine years ago. I thought I wanted to be a novelist, so I started writing a book…and here we all are, and what a long, strange trip it’s been, to be sure…
Thanks so much to all of you who’ve been my companions on the journey, and here’s to many miles before us!
Excerpt From OUTLANDER
And in honor of World Outlander Da...
February 23, 2017
Season Three Returns in September, 2017!
NEWS!!! Released on Wednesday, February 15, 2017!
(It’s now 28 million copies, but who’s counting….? Thanks to all of you!!!)
Starz and Sony Pictures Television Announce ‘Outlander’ To Return in September, 2017Production Transfers from Scotland to South Africa to Shoot Last Five Episodes; Co-stars Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan Say “Goodbye to Scotland” in Video for Fans
Beverly Hills, Calif. – Today Starz, in association with Sony Pictures Television, announced that season three of the Go...
