Thank you for replying to my comment – very much appreciated. I take your point about the busy life of an author with multiple contracts etc – but isn't keeping track of that something your agent should be doing too? – eg. noticing that the Kindle title availability is oddly spotty ( eg. for Australia; I can't tell for other territories)? – Why not start with the first three, as you say usually happens, if they're/you're/someone is not going to go with the lot? Somebody, somewhere, made the decision to write that contract with just FC and EB (unless it was put together by evil robots who hate Australian readers and have engaged in ongoing sabotage…[g].)

Given that the odd spottiness of this isn't something you knew, or your agent had put on the table, I guess comments/complaints/rants like mine are useful research then, letting you know where problems (and eager customers) are. For me, really, I don't want to buy two later unsequential titles in the series for my Kindle, I'd rather start from the beginning again; I don't think I'm alone in that. So the way in which this decision has been made re Australian Kindle availability is likely to affect sales, or deter sales. Which can't be what you or your agent would want.

In my line of work, complaints (uncomfortable though I may find them) are also opportunities. And with 450,000 books available on Kindle to Australia (vs 600,000 to US customers) surely it's flattering to you to know how quickly I noticed the absence of most of your books from that 450,000.

Maybe your agent needs to put together a big fat informative database or spreadsheet to keep proper track of it all, so you have time to keep writing, and everybody's time is used effectively.

After that Canadian reader's comment, I checked again; they may have Kindle Outlander now, but our limited choice hasn't changed. Sigh.

SO, my big deal is, when are the next real books coming out?

I truly adore the Outlander series and feel like I actually know the characters. They actually brought me a closer connection to my Scottish heritage.

And while I'm at it, I like Katherine Heigle as an actress, but she is NOT Claire material…

Thanks for letting me kvetch a bit!

Plus I fear that Blanvalet might be right about there not being a market for graphic novels in Germany. They are not very popular over here (yet) and if they are bought… well, that kind of is a different target group. From my experience, graphic novels (at least where I work) are rather bought by manga/fantasy/sci-fi readers than by those interested in historical/romance/whateveryoumaycallit fiction. I can see real fans buying it, just for having a "complete set" of your books, but I somehow cannot see a huge market (yet).
However, I feel that graphic novels might become more important for our market in a couple of years. Maybe the thought of eventually getting it on the markt over here should be postphoned but not abandoned… aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben

But then again, we are also still waiting for an unabridged German version of the audiobooks (hopefully not read by Daniela Hoffmann) or the unabridged versions of Fiery Cross and Breath of Snow and Ashes on the German Audible. Again I hope that postphoned does not mean abandoned Especially as the market for audiobooks already is growing (they were unheard of 10 years ago and have just gotten really popular).

But yeah, I can see where Blanvalt is comming from. Kind of. Unfortunately.

I just recently (last 3 years) discovered the Outlander series. I read the last 5 books over the past summer. Needless to say, I am hopelessly addicted to the characters and their story. From the looks of it you are extremely busy with the musical, Exile, tour events etc. I am just curious…can you give us addicts a round-about-time for the release of the 8th book? I'm thinkin' you really have it completed and are just holding out on us!

Oh, and by the way, any excerpts would be greatly appreciated!

Sincerely
Roxy