Diana Gabaldon's Blog, page 35

Steinkreis 1.1

In an amongst all the exciting and impending New Stuff, I mustn't omit to note the recent publication in Germany of DER MAGISCHE STEINKREIS, which is...

Well. For starters, the book that was published in the UK as THROUGH THE STONES, and in the US as THE OUTLANDISH COMPANION, was published in Germany as DER MAGISCHE STEINKREIS. Now, personally, I dislike this title very much; it means [gag me with a spoon:] "The Magic Stone Circle". As I keep telling careless interviewers, there isn't an...

And Now for Something Completely Different...

There doesn't seem to be any way to include a playable mp3 file in one of these blogs, so I'm going to provide a link, here.

What is this? Well...

When I went to Edinburgh last year, I met a lovely gentleman named Mike Gibb, a lyricist/playwright, who said that he'd fallen in love with OUTLANDER, and that he and his friend, composer Kevin Walsh, would like to do a song-cycle--a musical telling of the story in the form of 14 or 15 songs. (There's a possibility that this song-cycle might ev...

Appearance this weekend - Flagstaff Celtic Festival

APPEARANCE! - July 17th – FLAGSTAFF CELTIC FESTIVAL!

Owing to the knee surgery, I'm not going many places in June and July. One exception, though, is the Flagstaff Celtic Festival, which is held on the 17th and 18th of this month, at Foxglenn Park.

This increasingly popular festival features "heavy events" (caber-tossing, hammer-throwing, etc.) and Highland Dance, as well as bag-piping, music by popular Scottish performers, whisky-tasting (and beer-drinking), and the odd special even...

UK Mass-market edition of ECHO - Sept. 30

Now, let me note that the UK readers are not left out of the paperback ECHO celebrations! True, British/Australian/New Zealand fans don't get the famous Green Slime trade paperback, nor do they get the EXILE eight-page full-color excerpt. Nor do you get THE EXILE itself, unless you can convince Orion Books that there is indeed a market for graphic novels on your side the pond. [g:] On the other hand…

September 30th heralds the publication of the UK mass-market paperback edition (that's the...

The GREEN SLIME thanks you!!

You know, what with knee surgery, new stories, travel, new website developments, etc., etc., etc.—I really hadn't paid all that much attention to the new Green Slime edition of AN ECHO IN THE BONE, other than to briefly admire the cover. [g:]

I find that y'all have been busy, though! I opened my email this morning to hear that the new Green Slime edition has hit the New York Times list—I _think_ that's the first time one of my trade paperback editions has done that! It's also #4 on BookScan...

A Closer Look

OK—this is what it looks like on the inside. Just had my post-surgery checkup—all well—and the surgeon kindly presented me with a souvenir X-ray of my right leg, with unicompartmental knee in place. [g:] (This is, if I'm not mistaken, a back view of my right leg (taken while I was unconscious following surgery). I _think_ that they flipped the negative while making the copy, thus making it look like my left leg.)

Many thanks to all the kind people who've sent me flowers, Starbucks cards, g...

Don't Look if You're Squeamish

I mean, it's not _that_ bad. But still mildly gross. [g:]

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety Jog

Well, I'm home—and thrilled to be here, believe you me. [g:] I actually got sprung late afternoon on Friday, earlier than expected. Possibly because I was standing beside my bed, dressed in my street clothes, when the surgeon came in to see me (very funny; there was an RN and a LPN in the room at the time, and he apparently thought I was one, too. He glanced at the empty bed, then—startled—at me, and blurted, "Oh, you're the _patient_! I didn't recognize you." No reason why he should, a...

Meet My New Little Friend

Meet my new little friend. The reason I'm not going anywhere much in June and July is—aside from my needing to stay put and write books—that I'm having partial (or at least I _hope_ it's partial) knee replacement surgery tomorrow.

I went to see an orthopedic specialist at the behest of Elder Daughter (an OR nurse), when what I thought was chronic tendinitis in my right knee got suddenly worse. She said a cortisone injection might clear tendinitis up entirely, and could certainly make it f...

Yes, the Green Slime _will_ have THE EXILE excerpt

Just a note to answer the question about the graphic novel excerpt (I have no idea why, but the blog won't let _me_ post comments now). Yes, the new (green) US trade paperback edition does indeed have an eight-page, full-color excerpt from THE EXILE.


THE EXILE, for anyone who wasn't plugged in over the last six months or so, is the official title for the graphic novel based on OUTLANDER. This is being billed as "Jamie's side of the story"--and it is that, though Jamie's is not the only vi...