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November 3, 2011
November 2, 2011
THE FIERY CROSS UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK
THE FIERY CROSS UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK –
OK, I talked to my agent (who talked to Recorded Books–who made and owns the Unabridged audiobook). The license for the ABRIDGED recording has now expired, which means that Recorded Books _can_ go ahead and sell the recording through Audible.com and other retail outlets. However, they couldn't do a contract with Audible.com for this _until_ the other license expired–which it did, yesterday. So they'll do the contract as quickly as they can, and as soon...
October 31, 2011
Happy Halloween!
And many thanks to Blue Moon Magnolia for this lovely tribute to Jamie's backside. {g}
October 19, 2011
Happy Birthday, Claire!
In honor of Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser's birthday–October 20, 1918– here's Claire's first scene from WRITTEN IN MY HEART'S OWN BLOOD. (NO, I don't have pub date for this book. I'm not done _writing_ it, for heaven's sake. When it's done, I'll tell you, OK? (I'm hoping to have it finished by the end of 2012. Meanwhile, THE SCOTTISH PRISONER and Jamie will perhaps help tide you over–that one comes out next month–November 29th))
WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD
Copyright 2011 Diana...
October 15, 2011
OUTLANDER: The Musical is now on iTUNES!
Yay! I'm delighted to be able to tell you that
— at long last—
OUTLANDER: The Musical is available on iTunes!
Thanks to Kevin Walsh, the composer of OTM, who made arrangements through the British Academy of Composers, Songwriters and Authors to make this happen. (Many thanks also to the BACSA!).
You can, of course, still get the whole CD (which is probably a better Christmas present than a 99-cent iTunes gift card), either from Amazon.com or from Mike Gibb (the OTM lyricist), but now you can d...
October 3, 2011
"PLAGUE OF ZOMBIES" – Publication, and an Excerpt!
I'm delighted to announce that there's a brand-new Lord John novella out TOMORROW (October 4th)—though a few people have already emailed to say they've got a copy and are…er…devouring it with gusto. (Really. That's what they said.)
The title of the novella is "Lord John and the Plague of Zombies." Please note that this is NOT a stand-alone book. It's a novella of {going off to run a quick word-count}…27,000+ words. It's _in_ an anthology (a collection of stories by different authors...
September 29, 2011
WHAT TO READ WHEN
Chronology of the Lord John Novels: When to Read What?
The Lord John novellas and novels* are sequential, but are built to stand alone; you don't need to read them in order.
In terms of their relationship to the larger Outlander novels: These books are part of the overall series, but are focused for the most part on those times in Lord John's life when he's not "onstage" in the main novels. This particular book (THE SCOTTISH PRISONER) focuses also on a part of Jamie Fraser's life not...
September 28, 2011
Sedona Book Festival this Saturday!
I'll be appearing THIS SATURDAY (October 1) at the Third Annual Sedona Book Festival! This is being held at Yavapai College: Sedona Center for Arts & Technology – 4215 Arts Center Drive – Sedona, Arizona.
See here for details and directions.
The Festival is from 9 AM to 5 PM. I'll be speaking at 2 PM, and signing books afterward. The Well Red Coyote bookstore will be supplying books (if you're not able to attend, you might want to call or email the bookstore to ask them to have a book...
September 26, 2011
THE SCOTTISH PRISONER – description
Now, if you don't want to know _anything_ about this book before reading it–stop right here. {g} This is the original catalog-copy for THE SCOTTISH PRISONER; the general description of the book that I wrote for use by editors (who write the flap-copy and back-cover copy), agents (who write descriptions for their own catalogs for use at international book-fairs), and publishers (who write brief descriptions of new books for the catalogs their sales reps use when describing new books to their ...
September 22, 2011
NEW OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE!
Well, this is exciting. I haven't heretofore had anything to do with Facebook—feeling that there wasn't world enough, or time, to deal with building a decent Facebook presence on top of everything else. The kindly and artistic souls at Random House, though, have built one _for_ me, and Facebook's recent changes have resulted in several scattered non-official DG pages now being consolidated.
The Random House people made a beautiful app for the page, which you can see by clicking on the...
