Diana Gabaldon's Blog, page 18
June 2, 2014
LA Schmoozing – International Film Rights
Schmoozing in LA…
So—I had a wonderful time at the Word on the Lake writers festival in Salmon Arm, BC (photos above). Worked like a dog, but that’s normal for such events. I gave two keynote speeches, taught three workshops (on Characterization, How to Make Them Turn the Page (a useful skill, when you write 900-page books), and How to Write (and How _not_ to Write) Sex Scenes. And a panel on how to carve a “writing cave” out of chaos—i.e., making time to write, which is pretty basic, but alw...
May 16, 2014
And…We Have a New Cover!
OK. This is the new Starz TV tie-in cover for OUTLANDER–for the US. (The foreign markets may get slightly different covers; I don’t know for sure yet.)
No, the book itself hasn’t changed in the slightest; it just has a new cover to advertise the upcoming show (which as previously noted, airs on August 9th–in the US. If you’re not in the US, please scroll back a couple of posts, where you will find out about international sales of the series).
This tie-in edition will be printed both as trade pa...
May 10, 2014
We Have An Air Date!
We have an air date for the new OUTLANDER TV series!
OK. Let me start off with a few brief facts (in hopes of staving off reams of stuff about “But when is it showing in Outer Mongolia?”):
SONY is the corporation that actually owns the film rights.
STARZ is the American production company that is _making_ the tv show and who thus has the US licensing rights to air it. Sony will license the show to other countries individually.
This is the announcement about the Starz showing, which is why it’s fo...
We have a air date!
We have AN air date! [beastly program won't let me edit the header!]
OK. Let me start off with a few brief facts (in hopes of staving off reams of stuff about “But when is it showing in Outer Mongolia?”):
SONY is the corporation that actually owns the film rights.
STARZ is the American production company that is _making_ the tv show and who thus has the US licensing rights to air it. Sony will license the show to other countries individually.
This is the announcement about the Starz showing, whic...
April 28, 2014
Thar She Blows….!
It’s DONE!!!
As my husband says, “Finished” is a relative term to a writer. For me, there’s a sense of completion when I’ve seen the shape of the book; I know what I’m working with. Then there’s the BIG “Finished,” when I’ve done with the writing–the story is All There, and in the publisher’s hands; at this point, there _will_ be a book, even if I get run over by a train.
Revisions–usually very minor, and they were _really_ minor in this book–are generally done as I go along. I send my two edit...
March 6, 2014
26 Years Ago Today…
I get the occasional question as to how I came to write OUTLANDER, and given that today is the 26th anniversary of my doing so, thought I’d maybe post this explanatory message—which I wrote a few years ago in thanks to the Compuserve folk who Witnessed the Creation , now updated.
Dear All–
On March 6, 1988, I started writing a novel. I wasn’t going to tell anyone what I was doing, let alone ever try to publish it. I just wanted to learn how to write a novel, and had concluded—having written All...
February 27, 2014
CANADIAN TOUR DATES FOR WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART’S BLOOD
CANADIAN TOUR EVENTS/DATES
Canadian Flag 2 clipart
from Clker.com
(Don’t panic; I’ll be posting the US tour dates tomorrow.)
Friday June 20
6:30pm TORONTO EVENT
Toronto Reference Library, Bram & Bluma Appel Salon
789 Yonge St.
This is a free, ticketed event. To reserve your ticket or for more information please visit:
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/programs-...
Saturday June 21
1:00pm LONDON (ONTARIO) EVENT
Chapters, 1037 Wellington Road
This is a free event. For more information please...
January 16, 2014
OUTLANDER_Starz – First Look OUTLANDER (tv) Trailer!
Here’s the “first-look” trailer presented at the recent Fan Event in Los Angeles, with a fascinating glimpse of the new cable-tv series (being produced by Starz), to be released sometime this summer!
Hope you enjoy it!
January 1, 2014
AND A VERY HAPPY HOGMANAY to all of you!
“In the light of eternity, time casts no shadow.”
[Excerpt from WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART’S BLOOD, to be published June 10th.]
It was perhaps four o’clock ack emma. Or before sparrow-fart, as the British armed forces of my own time used to put it. That sense of temporal dislocation was back again, memories of another war coming like a sudden fog between me and my work, then disappearing in an instant, leaving the present sharp and vivid as Kodachrome. The army was moving.
No fog obscured Jamie....
December 23, 2013
THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
It’s a short Advent season this year, Christmas coming so soon after the Fourth Sunday, but we are the more expectant in our anticipation, and deeper in our gratitude for the blessings of home and family.
May the blessings of the season be with you and yours!
[This excerpt is from the end of THE SCOTTISH PRISONER (aka DIE FACKELN DER FREIHEIT, in German).]
It was cold in the loft, and his sleep-mazed mind groped among the icy drafts after the words still ringing in his mind.
“_Bonnie lad_.”
Wind...
