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February 2, 2024
Recent Interview Podcast – Storycentric
Just for general interest…(if you have any, I mean )… here’s the an interview/podcast (in two parts) that I did with/for Andrew Buckley (The Storycentric Podcast):
Thanks, Andrew!
-Diana
There are multiple ways to listen to podcasts, on different apps/services, so choose whichever you prefer below. Don”t subscribe to any of them? Well, some of these services apparently will allow you to listen to a podcast or two on a trial basis without signing up and paying for a new subscription.
Part 1 of...
January 24, 2024
February 2024 Events in Arizona!
Oooookay….moving right along here…
EVENTS FOR FEBRUARY!
EVENTS FOR FEBRUARY
Well, February looks pretty interesting, event-wise. It has our 47th wedding anniversary, but beyond that….
Monday, Feb. 5th – The Poisoned Pen – 7:00-8:30 PM
(Ticketed Event – $35, which includes a copy of FOURTEEN DAYS)
I’ll be doing a live (but also available online) event with Doug Preston (half of the Preston and Child team that produces the Very Entertaining (if slightly gruesome…) Pendergast suspense novels, amo...
January 18, 2024
CLANLANDS Sale, A Gift & Jeff Woodman Interview
Well, here’s a nice offer from The Poisoned Pen…
Why not fall in love with New Zealand, home to Graham McTavish? There is many a Scot living there. He and Sam Heughan take you on a tour of this beautiful country. Kilts and Kiwis!
For Valentine’s Day, The Poisoned Pen offers a special: a first edition of CLANLANDS IN NEW ZEALAND: Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under. Signed by Sam, Graham, and (me, Diana ….) at a special price: $15 (USD). A sweethear...
January 11, 2024
Outlander Cocktails, Arby’s Ears, & Excerpt
HAPPY 11th of January!
Aside from the (no doubt) universal rejoicing at the fact that it’s my birthday —Penguin Random House would like to announce a couple of Really Entertaining new items. To wit:
THE OUTLANDER COCKTAILS BOOK – I wasn’t sure what this would be like, but it’s really gorgeous; the photography is fabulous! (The editor emailed me in great excitement, saying, “The cover looks so great I want a drink, and it’s only 9 AM!!”)
I agree, and I really only drink wine…. well, and the oc...
January 4, 2024
“Frog-legs … and a lot of beer.”
Happy New Year! Good wishes in abundance toward everyone, all the time, everywhere.
And here is a small New Year’s treat:
EXCERPT FROM BOOK TEN (UNTITLED), Copyright © 2024 Diana Gabaldon
[NB to readers unfamiliar with copyright notices; your material is copyrighted by you the moment you put it into a concrete form (i.e., words on page or screen), and unless you’re quoting from an already-published book (in which case, it has a fixed copyright; the year of publication), the copyright no...
January 1, 2024
Happy New Year – 2024!
Happy New Year to one and all!
‘Tis the season for new resolutions and perhaps the odd spot of bibulousness….
So it’s New Year’s Eve— a time to sit down and breathe, sip something to aid contemplation (be that hot tea or cold gin…) and let the peaceful night surround you. (Unless you’re a party animal, in which case I don’t need to suggest anything to you…) Do you look to the past and see what the last year has held—and what you did or thought about it? Or to the future, with hopes and dreams—a...
December 24, 2023
Merry Christmas!
It’s just after midnight, which means that it’s Christmas! Merry Christmas to everyone, whether for you it’s a religious celebration, a time of seasonal contemplation and renewal, or just a few days off work!
It’s a slightly anomalous Christmas, in that an hour ago, it was both the Fourth Sunday of Advent… and Christmas Eve! (Well, this is the sort of thing that will happen now and then when you go setting dates according to a lunar calendar…)
However, this holy trinity of dates does in fact ha...
December 2, 2023
First Sunday of Advent – A Journey
Today is the First Sunday of Advent. Like Lent, which comes before Easter, Advent is a time of preparation. But while Lent is a time for penance and reconciliation, Advent is a time of contemplation and growth. By prayer and good works, we make ready—ourselves and others—for the birth of Jesus and the renewal of the world. Like most religions, our feast of birth and new growth coincides with the physical turning of the world and the coming of light into the dark of winter. Happy Advent!
Like L...
October 17, 2023
New! Outlander Coloring Book, Vol. 2!
Well…
A brand-new Outlander coloring book is available now. The Outlander Coloring Book, Volume 2 features forty-five all-new illustrations. The thrilling world of Outlander awaits! (Publisher’s hyperbole, you know…?)
ANYway…The Outlander Coloring Book, Volume 2 is indeed out today, and available pretty much everywhere. ALL the buy-links from various retailers are available on the publisher’s page for this book:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725652/the-official-outlander-coloring-bo...
October 9, 2023
Yorktown Talk Video and Upcoming Surrey Conference
Just to pass the time—for those interested, here’s the video of my talk at American Revolution Museum at Yorktown last month:
(as you can no doubt tell from my appearance, it was a Very Warm evening and there were 400 people in a smallish space…)
More about the American Revolution Museum…
Surrey Conference and Local Signing
Well, it’s October…which means that the Surrey International Writers Conference is coming Right Up…
This is the only conference that I do every ...
