As I'm writing this, I'm downloading Voyager to listen to while I work and, I must say, it's just as exciting as reading the books. They (or you, not sure how that works) couldn't have chosen a better narrator IMO. She's fabulous!

I'm so excited to see that Echo is FINALLY out. I've been waiting patiently for the past year and it's finally here! YAY! Now I just have to get my own copy (hmmmm…I see a trip to the bookstore in my near future).

Thanks so much for the storytelling

Stephanie

Am at pg 725, and have scoured furiously through the (only 95 remaining, how could you?! ABOSA was 1400+) rest, desperate for the answers. Only to find that…NO YOU DID NOT!!!! You really expect me to live the next three years of my life?! Sane?! I want to say [g], but [groan, moan, whine] is all I've got.

Well, ok, am trying to breathe. But you must cancel all touring and go write the rest of this thread. Now. Please. pleeeeeeaaaaaaaasssssssseeeeeeee???

"Like a string of firecrackers," indeed. More like a string of SCUDS, just waiting for my oh-so-innocent page turn. You are a twisted, torturous woman, and I love you all the more for it, as soon as I complete my ranting. In THREE more years [real g].

Was at your dinner talk last spring in Gainesville, FL. An absolute delight. Now, back to the computer for you, and your little dog too!!

Ps. I was lucky enough to be one of the people who got the free Outlander book with the ECHO excerpts. My husband almost had a heart attack when I opened the package and started screaming hysterically!

Merci Beaucoup to your Publishing Company.

Keighley Poulsen

I'd have to look back through my directory of files to tell that, myself. I could pick out the bit that was written at the Scottish Parliament, because that file will have a specific date on it, and ditto for the two complete scenes that were added after the manuscript was "delivered," but I doubt that most of the last-minute bits and pieces could be identified, even by me–at that point, I was just working on the last section of the book as a single file, adding in bridges and transitions, and shuffling the order of scenes and chapters (as I said to my editor, "This section is tricky, because it has to detonate like a string of firecrackers." Judging from his sole comment on that section ("Surprising, thrilling, shocking, brilliant! Bravo!"), I might have managed that. [g] You'll have to judge for yourselves, though.

A most heartfelt and sincere welcome back. And thank you so kindly for the update on the Graphic novel. I'm looking forward to trying to discern which pieces of Echo might have been born on the floor of the Scottish Parliment and which might have been quickly keyed in a taxi on the way to the airport. I'm sure we'll never be able to tell, but it might be fun to guess.

How do you do this? I check this blog and check it and then one day there's three new entries.

Anyway, can't wait for Echo. AND the short story about Roger's parents. Too bad his dad didn't find out he also could travel through the stones.

Awaiting eagerly to meet Rogers parents as well.

(I must also organise copies for both my mum and grandma!!!)