You wrote an article about Sam Heughan in which you talked about how quickly he changed from Sam to Jamie I don’t know what to call that phenomenon. I realize it’s acting, but not every actor has that ability. George Clooney sure doesn’t, but Viggo Mortensen does. I’m going to call it ‘plastic’ for lack of a better word or phrase.

Compare Viggo Mortensen’s performance and appearance in GI Jane to that in Lord of the Rings or Hidalgo. Same guy, totally different looks.

Anyway, thanks for your writing. I fell in love with Scotland in 1968. I was a ‘wee lass’. My Father , a professor, was taking a sabbatical from his usual institution to the University of Liverpool. On the weekends we would explore Britain. We never did get over to Ireland, but I have crawled through numerous castles, old homes and museums from John O’Groats to Land’s End.

Because I was so young, I picked up a Liverpudlian accent and can tell you where someone is from in Great Britain. Huh? Well, for example, without even looking, I knew Sam Heughan was not from Northern Scotland. His accent is too mellow. True, he’s changed it over time in his acting career, but it’s not the hard accent near John O’Groats or the Northern Highlands. This ability is one of my few talents. I cannot tell you, for example, where someone is from in the United States. Sad, I know.

Congrats on the series! You’ve brought back some very happy memories for me.

Tania Moore.

today I read the graphic novel fire and stone, and I must say I find it very good figures may not agree with my idea but it should be if not impossible very difficult to please every reader. Succeeded very and the important scenes are available. It is a must for every Highland saga fan.

I even secretly admit that I hope that this series will be filmed.

Still a big compliment to you Diana Gabaldon without these books would be missing something me and I would love not to Scotland and the Highlands / know how I do it now.
Greetings from Germany

Sonja

I am an absolute obsessive fan from Germany. My grammar is bad, sorry …. My family has been totally unnerved because I talk constantly of the action. I escape into another world and see many things in my experience it differently and partnership now intense. I told my husband he is my Jamie and my daughter is my red-haired Brianna. She has really long red hair and is absolutely beautiful and a teenager;-) I’m a bookworm, a very long time. I’ve actually read very much, but put all their books to the crown. You write very much alive to read a sentence is enough just to have in mind, in color and everything completely real thanks for the absolute pleasure to read! Always her devoted servant … laughing … Sabine from Germany!

Claire looks different in each frame; there is no consistent vision of her. She appears hastily drawn and veers almost to the comic.
Her dress appears to defy laws of gravity , like the heroines on grocery store novel covers.` While in your book it is clear that she is a very beautiful woman, Exile does her no justice.
Some of the background details– Murtagh’s love for Ellen, for example– explain what was hinted at in the books, and are a clever touch; others, such as Kenneth, add an extraneous element, to no end.
Some of the scenes are monochromatic splashes, which give a rather cheap comic book effect. All the faces appear the same , with no attempt at individual expression.
The artist is obviously talented; I wish he had been as careful in all the plates as he was in the “Next Morning” in Chapter One.

I must say that I love the idea of a graphic novel.

I have to agree with Midge, that the sketches are WONDERFUL!!! Jamie is just as I pictured him, amazing and beautiful. The only thought that I have on the picture of Claire, is I guess I assumed her hair would be curlier? No matter, he has captured her beauty and is breath taking. I CAN NOT wait to see a portrait of them together. It is most exciting to see them come to life.

Also I read on one of the posts that there is a movie in the making?? Just curious if this is true or false info. I am crossing my fingers that it is true (though casting will be very difficult no doubt)I only say that because, you have painted them already in my mind a set picture of rare beauty, which will be hard to follow.

Rachel

My God, they’re gorgeous. Jamie looks great: young and studly and striking. (I’m fine with 22 since I started reading your books when I was just under that age myself.) Love your dialogue and Hoang’s art is perfection.

Lauren

PS. The Last of the Mohicans is my favorite film — excellent choice of hair model with Madeleine Stowe.

I love love love the sketches. Jamie is everything I thought he would be and more! Also I dont think you could have found a more capable artist… its so exciting