Comments on: APOLOGIES! https://dianagabaldon.com/2011/01/apologies/ 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/2011/01/apologies/comment-page-1/#comment-8913 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:24:54 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/?p=868#comment-8913 Dear Ellen–

My best to your husband! It’s hard to compete with the allure of wooden canoes {g}, but I’m gratified that he made the effort! (And thanks to you for egging him on.) I wish him the best of luck, with the treatments and an eventual donor. (I was/am registered with the National Bone Marrow Registry, but I think they deferred me some years ago, for spending too much time in the UK.)

–Diana

]]> By: Ellen https://dianagabaldon.com/2011/01/apologies/comment-page-1/#comment-8910 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:10:25 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/?p=868#comment-8910 On husbands enjoying your books- my dear man is devoted to his topics of interest, mostly how to build and restore old canoes, who did what in exploring the Arctic and Antarctic and technical stuff on how to sail small boats. Recently he has been undergoing chemotherapy for MDS. That consists of sitting under a blanket while the IV slowly pumps cold fluids into him. He also has occasional unexpected hospital stays and when we get lucky, he’ll find a donor and get a bone marrow transplant.

So between the chemo treatments, hospital stays and the sure knowledge that there are only so many books on wooden canoes (all the ones he wants he has and has read numerous times) I decided it was time to introduce him to the Outlander series. He really needed something new to read. Sure, I had to push a bit (he is an engineer and this is way outside his parameters) but after I put a towel over all the other books next to the bed and put Outlander on his pillow with a chocolate, he got started.

He kept nibbling at the book. I kept planting chocolates. Eventually he was about an inch into it was holding the book very close to his face with his eyebrows raised very high on his forehead. Time for me to ask a few questions.

“Have you ever read a book with a love scene in it?”
“No.”

The man, the dear man, is 61 years old. So, congratulations, Diana, you’ve scored a first with my boy! Now he is well into Voyager and I’ve been able to take the towel off the other books.

Keep up the wonderful work and know that you are giving us a gift we love to share.

]]> By: maria https://dianagabaldon.com/2011/01/apologies/comment-page-1/#comment-8859 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:14:29 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/?p=868#comment-8859 i dream of the outlander series as an multi-film epic. steve waddington as jaime, and rachel weicz as claire. im having a hard time moving past it.

]]> By: Valentine Running Brook https://dianagabaldon.com/2011/01/apologies/comment-page-1/#comment-8311 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:07:31 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/?p=868#comment-8311 My son thinks I’m a cracked pot because I am still worried about Jemmy in that cold, dark tunnel! Is it just me or are there other cracked pots out there too?? Oh, the agonizing wait…!

]]> By: Cynthia https://dianagabaldon.com/2011/01/apologies/comment-page-1/#comment-8308 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/?p=868#comment-8308 Hysterical Post!

]]> By: Judy Potts https://dianagabaldon.com/2011/01/apologies/comment-page-1/#comment-8299 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:28:23 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/?p=868#comment-8299 Oh Diana,
I woke up early this morning, a Sunday, to finish “…Bone.” I couldn’t believe you left Roger/Brianna and me hanging like that. Not even a hint or a whisper, or a breath or nothing. The possibilities are infinite, and knowing you, you will probably explore them all. Now, I read your comment that it was planned torture. You didn’t need to do that, I would read anything you wrote even laundry and shopping lists. How long must I wait? Oh pain, oh anticipation.

Judy

]]> By: Diana https://dianagabaldon.com/2011/01/apologies/comment-page-1/#comment-8178 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:46:44 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/?p=868#comment-8178 Dear Linda–

I don’t see why not. The simplest way–assuming you don’t already have a German book in hand that you want signed–would be to contact the Poisoned Pen bookstore (they’re listed under “Resources,” I think).

–Diana

]]> By: Diana https://dianagabaldon.com/2011/01/apologies/comment-page-1/#comment-8177 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:45:30 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/?p=868#comment-8177 Dear Juidth–

Glad you enjoy the books! Though I don’t know why you’d have trouble imagining that you’d buy the books for your husband. I notice that women seem somehow to assume that these are “women’s” fiction–possibly either because I’m a woman {g} or because Claire’s an important character (though hardly the only one)–but they’re not. Men love them–straight _and_ gay men–though they do often see different elements in them than female readers do.

–Diana

]]> By: Diana https://dianagabaldon.com/2011/01/apologies/comment-page-1/#comment-8176 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:42:59 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/?p=868#comment-8176 Dear Linda–

It’s not expanding upon in ECHO–that’s where it _starts_–the mysterious part, I mean.

–Diana

]]> By: Michelle Kreuch https://dianagabaldon.com/2011/01/apologies/comment-page-1/#comment-8116 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:19:16 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/?p=868#comment-8116 Dear Diana,

Have a great trip.

Just wanted to ask have your daughters read your books? did they love them like every one else?

Will there be a book 9 or will the next one be the end?

I’ve just started the final installment again in 6 months, I seemed to miss a lot the first time around.

Michelle
Virginia/England

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