Comments on: HOW Long ’til the next book?!? https://dianagabaldon.com/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/ Author of the Outlander Series Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Diana https://dianagabaldon.com/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/comment-page-9/#comment-13694 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:59:07 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/#comment-13694 DearJHRC–

You’re entitled to your opinion. [g] I don’t know why you’d think Claire would be disgusted with herself, though; she’s done nothing wrong.

–Diana

]]> By: Jesus H Roosevelt Christ! bka TK https://dianagabaldon.com/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/comment-page-9/#comment-13685 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:50:10 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/#comment-13685 *New Fan Alert* Almost two years after the last comment I come along digging through years of your blog for anything I can find about Echo. I’m late & you’ve already started writing…I have to admit I didn’t read all 176 comments but I didn’t see any that said what I want to read first. While it does pertain to the Claire/Jamie/John issue I specifically want to hear Claire’s first person account of her feelings about what happened between her and John. I want her to tell me how she went out on the docks like a mad woman in disbelief looking for Jamie when John told her he’d died and how appalled she is and disgusted with herself for sleeping with John. That will do to set me on the right track in addition to that upper cut he gets from Jamie. Thanks for asking. :)

]]> By: Annemarie https://dianagabaldon.com/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/comment-page-9/#comment-4817 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:51:38 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/#comment-4817 I've just finished my first run through of Echo in the Bone. in the forward you say that every book takes you three years to write so I was calculating and hoping that three years starts from last year which means 2012. Now I'm maybe having to face the fact that it could be 2013…or even…God forbid…2014! This is what hell must be like. Do try to hurry? Although I do take your point about James Patterson. LOL!

]]> By: imusbknutz https://dianagabaldon.com/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/comment-page-9/#comment-4772 Fri, 07 May 2010 22:48:55 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/#comment-4772 I'm still stuck on some of the older story lines.
The war is just a big distraction.

1. Is ARCH BUG really dead?
The letters claiming that he was the #3 man of the Gold heist (Culloden time) were dropped off (in Scotland). Philadelphia (printshop) happened after.

I can't wait to hear the REAL story of the GOLD (Culloden end). Gold type fonts. Gold in the Cave…Gold Astrolabe (maybe a stretch-but maybe not)

2. What was in the little pouch that Jamie HAD to get from Fergus-before he even saw Claire..Must be important.

3. Michael Murray..he has been off in the wings doing things in France…(I think of Voyager and the current that went between Jamie and Ian Sr. when mentioned at Lollybroch.) I think he has been involved at odd moments of Jamie & Claire's adventures…I'm suspicious of that one!

4. Duncan Kerr: Have we ever gotten the connection between why Duncan Kerr knew about Geilie's/Sandringham/Silkie stash…The question of was he dropping it off or picking it up?

5. Geilie: 1967 vs. 1968
Dougal's message 1-9-6-7.
She looks really different from the what 6-7(?) months or so since Claire/Roger/Brianna saw her go through the Stones all young and slim. ( I haven't dug hard enough to find a post explaining this. I'm not sure if the 1945/46 thing would cover this.)
Claire planned to come in 1967 but cancelled, then coming in 1968.
Geilie had the Compte St. Germain's Grimoire in Outlander (in Attic). (Silkie Stash/Sandringham)
OH YES-and Geilie claims to have had 5 husbands since….(Jamaica?) What about her time in France?

6. What else was in that garage of Reverend Wakefield's?

7. Martletts, suns etc…Percy's letters (Seals at Black Chamber) Looking very much like Claire's Q. Lamb's genealogy packet. Confirm the Beauchamp thing-(Percy not aware of having any kids yet-)

8. Philip Wyllie-PW? 9. The Sin Eater-(S&A)

]]> By: Amber Ty https://dianagabaldon.com/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/comment-page-9/#comment-4770 Wed, 05 May 2010 14:15:21 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/#comment-4770 I am definitely dying to know what happens with Roger/Brianna/Jemmy. Over all, I'll just be happy to have the book in my hands!

]]> By: adventures north https://dianagabaldon.com/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/comment-page-9/#comment-4730 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:44:32 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/#comment-4730 A friend gave me Outlander last January and I read straight through to Echo, finishing a couple nights ago, and all I can say is "You have nay soul" to leave us hanging! Personally, I think your series has at least 2 more books in it because we do have so many story lines to complete, a revolution to finish, and what had best be some semblence of happily-ever-after for poor Jamie & Claire.

Let's do start the next book with them…we, your gentle readers, love them and love them together. I personally can't swallow that they would've actually separated for the perilous trans-Atlantic voyage in the first place, given what they've been through. I'm also disappointed that Claire couldn't have the strength and character in mourning that Jamie showed in the years after Culloden. Maybe they need to broach these subjects in their relationship as they heal? Just please, please don't make it that Jamie actually lost his v-card to the nameless French girl but forgot about it because he was whacked in the head with an axe.

I love the detail you pour into your writing and your insight into the human psyche. Now get going on that Book 8….please.

]]> By: shadowdancer https://dianagabaldon.com/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/comment-page-9/#comment-4656 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:23:17 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/#comment-4656 Jamie and Claire, Jamie and Claire, Jamie and Claire….I don't think their story will ever get old.

I'm with Kara on her comments, but would like to add..please bring the family back together, in the past preferably. Jem misses his Grandda and Brianna misses her mother. They should be together.

And what of Buck? Is he not the same one that tried to kill Roger?

]]> By: Kara_R https://dianagabaldon.com/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/comment-page-9/#comment-4655 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:35:19 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/#comment-4655 Ok, now that I've had some time to decompress and chew over the whole series, there are a couple of things I'd like to see:

1. Good things for Young Ian (as mentioned above).

2. An explanation on why Jack Randall's tombstone was where it was. We know why the one with Jamie's name on it was there, but Randall supposedly died at Culloden, too, and as Claire observed, it's an awfully long way from the battlefield. There was never really any closure on his death; it was rather anticlimactic after all he put Jamie through in the beginning of the series, I felt.

3. A reappearance of Master Raymond. He's my favorite minor character! Eagerly awaiting his first book, of course, but I'd love to see him back in the main action once again.

BTW, y'all, that is NOT a love triangle. There's no force of attraction on the Claire-John leg of the thing, in either direction.

]]> By: michie https://dianagabaldon.com/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/comment-page-9/#comment-4654 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:57:25 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/#comment-4654 Since the moment in Echo when Lord John acquired "carnal knowledge" of Claire, I've wondered how Jamie will react. And I will wonder anxiously until the 8th book…

]]> By: Alice https://dianagabaldon.com/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/comment-page-9/#comment-4652 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:33:59 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2009/12/how-long-til-the-next-book/#comment-4652 I have spent the last few months reread book 3,4, and 5. (I needed to be surrounded by my "friends" while waiting for the new grandbaby!)
Anyway after finishing Fiery Cross I have something else I hope will find it's explaination before you end it all.
Who, or What is Raymond???????

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