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December 5, 2015
Outlander Bears (Signed)
And…there will be bears! Should you be looking for something cuddly for Christmas, the Poisoned Pen is stocking a few of the Jamie and Claire bears (made by the North American Bear Company, licensed by Sony), signed. (It being difficult to sign a bear, they asked me to do hang-tags, as shown.)
[NB: I don't have any financial interest in the bears, but I do have a personal interest in the Poisoned Pen, my local independent bookstore.]
Click here to go to the Poisoned Pen’s webpage for the Ou...
December 1, 2015
Stirling Castle Video
During Book Week Scotland last month, BBC Scotland’s art correspondent Pauline McLean did an interview with me at Stirling Castle, asking questions from fans:
Click to watch the BBC Scotland video (web version).
Or if you have a Facebook account, you can also watch the video here:
November 30, 2015
“Inquiries” (Book Nine)
This is an excerpt from Book Nine in my OUTLANDER series of major novels, which I am working on now. I originally posted this as one of my Daily Lines on my Facebook page on November 15, 2015. Note that this excerpt may contain SPOILERS…
Facebook Hashtags: #DailyLines, #BookNine, #NoItsNotFinished, #Maybe2017, #MaybeNot, #WhoKnows, #Inquiries
William had been half-hoping that his inquiries for Lord John Grey would meet either with total ignorance, or with the news that his lordship had retur...
November 29, 2015
A Time Of Waiting… and of Preparation…
Advent is a time of waiting, and of preparation. Of contemplation—of what is past, and what is to come. During Advent, we make wreaths, made of leaves or evergreens, with four candles, and we light one candle for each of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas.
Today is the first Sunday of Advent. May your candle burn quiet in the dark, and may you be at peace.
PrologueIn the light of eternity, time casts no shadow.
“Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.” But w...
October 26, 2015
New Book Recommendation
I’m pleased and proud to recommend a new book to you: THE SURVIVORS, my brother-in-law’s debut novel in a new series starring psychologist Cal Henderson.
When Cal Henderson was a child, his mother waved to him from the backyard one summer day, then shot herself. Cal, reasonably enough, went and hid under the bed. When he’s eventually rescued, he finds that before shooting herself, his mother had killed his father and his two older brothers, and seriously wounded Scottie, the friend who had b...
October 19, 2015
“Technicalities” (Book Nine)
Below is an excerpt from Book Nine of the OUTLANDER novels, which I am currently writing. Note that there are SPOILERS…
“What do you mean, I can’t? Whose business is it whether I renounce my title or not?”
Uncle Hal looked at William with an affectionate impatience.
“I’m not speaking rhetorically, blockhead. I mean it literally. You can’t renounce a peerage. There’s no means set down in law or custom for doing it, ergo, it can’t be done.”
“But you—” William stopped, baffled.
“No, I didn’t,”...
September 29, 2015
Season One, Volume Two Released!
AT LAST!!! Season One, Volume Two of the Starz Outlander TV series is available today in the U.S.A. and other selected markets! (The second eight episodes…)
Included are deleted scenes, such as Geillis Confronts Jamie. And a video of my first visit to the Outlander series sets! And other special features and extras…
The Outlander Volume 2 Original Television Soundtrack is also available, with 15 tracks from master composer Bear McCreary. Remember that McCreary’s beautiful music for Outland...
September 14, 2015
USO Tour!
USO Tour! I’m happy and excited to announce that I’ll be doing a brief USO tour on bases in the UK and Germany, in company with the lovely Kathleen Antrim and Tess Gerritsen. Operation Thriller V starts in about four hours….
For those non-US fans not familiar with the USO, it’s a private, nonprofit, non-partisan organization whose mission is to support the troops by providing morale, welfare and recreation-type services. I think we’re recreation.
...September 5, 2015
Inspiration and Bookshelves
I get a lot of questions about what "inspired" this or that element/incident/character in my books. Occasionally, there will actually be some concrete kernel—like a historical description of some fascinating object or incident—but more often, Stuff just comes along as I think and work, or floats silently to the top of the murky pools in my mind.
I tend to hover by my bookshelves while thinking—sometimes a book wants to come into my hand, sometimes I’m actually looking for something—but just...
September 3, 2015
Scripts
Most of you have probably heard that I’m writing a script for one of the episodes of Season Two for the Outlander/Starz TV series. This is new and interesting—I’ve written comic book scripts for Walt Disney (waaaay back in the late 70′s) and I’ve written the script for a graphic novel (THE EXILE— for those of you who haven’t encountered it, it tells the story of the first third of OUTLANDER in graphic novel format—from Jamie’s and Murtagh’s point of view)—but I’ve never done a script for TV...
