Diana is working on A BLESSING FOR A WARRIOR GOING OUT. Once she finishes writing it, it has to go through the publication process, which she discussed in her Writer’s Corner webpages:

http://dianagabaldon.com/2021/03/what-finished-means-to-an-author-2/

After she finishes writing the book, it is her publishers in each country or publishing region who decides the date(s) when the book will be on the shelves in the end, not Diana. Her books are always published first in the U.S.A., of course, since she is an American author. Often Germany, the U.K. and Canada release their editions on the same day or soon after. Other countries and publishing regions may take up to a year if the book has to be translated to another language.

Recently she has said that work on Book Ten is going well. The last book in the OUTLANDER series of major novels is tying up many of the main themes besides Jamie and Claire’s relationship. Once she has finished it and the publisher announces the release date in the U.S.A., that information will be posted here and on her official Facebook page.

Diana always does her very best in creating each book, and gives her all. She is 74 years old, by the way.

I was talking about this series with a member of the co-op I live in and she said she hated the ending. Turns out, she blinked at exactly the wrong Second and didn’t actually see the last SECOND of the ending. She went back and watched it again – not blinking this time – and reports that this was really amazing.

Wanted to say, I feel Sam Heughan taught me that sometimes a really good actor understands – and portrays – a character better than I do, right from the start. It was wonderful watching Jamie, already a fine person, grow into his full adulthood. Thanks, Mr. Heughan!

Can’t wait (literally? Don’t want to wait) for Book 10.

After so many years of loving and following Outlander, I have to admit that I had hoped for a very different ending.

I know I am not the only fan who feels this way. We have followed Jamie and Claire through years of love, loss, separation, sacrifice, and uncertainty. Their family has been torn apart so many times, and we have watched them lose people they loved deeply. The loss of Fergus was especially heartbreaking because he had become like a son to Jamie.

That is why I hoped the final episode would give us something we had been waiting for throughout this journey: a moment of genuine peace and happiness.

Jamie’s conversation with Claire about William made that feeling even stronger for me. Hearing him speak about the sadness of being separated from his son and the possibility of never meeting his grandchildren was incredibly moving. It made me feel that this part of Jamie’s story deserved the chance to come full circle.

I would have loved to see Jamie reunite with William, meet his grandchildren, and spend his later years surrounded by the family he had spent so much of his life longing for. Seeing him at Fraser’s Ridge with Claire and the people he loved would have felt like a beautiful reward for everything he had endured.

I am not saying this because I expected a perfect or unrealistic ending. I simply wanted to see Jamie and Claire finally have the chance to enjoy the family and peace they had fought so hard to find.

I say all of this with genuine love and gratitude for Outlander. This is not meant to diminish the incredible work that went into the series. It is simply the honest perspective of a fan who has spent many years caring deeply about these characters and hoping their journey would end with a sense of peace and fulfillment.

Regardless of how each of us feels about the ending, I will always be grateful for the journey Outlander has given us. Thank you to the actors who brought these characters to life, to the writers who created so many unforgettable moments, and to everyone behind the scenes who dedicated their talent, passion, and hard work to this extraordinary series.

Most of all, thank you for giving us Jamie and Claire and for giving us so many years of a story that became deeply meaningful to so many of us. ❤️

I watched the show on the advice of my sister and we made our parents watch it together. I rewatched it with my boyfriend and it’s safe to say we all LOVED it. Apart from S.6 – we didn’t really understand why they had to make Claire’s rape scene worst than what you’ve written already and make her drug herself with ether?? And sadly, we didn’t like this last season either.

Overall we felt the timeline was completely crushed and rushed. The life in the 18c, the scenery, everyday chores, horseback or boat travels and the time they take, the adventures that happen “on the way” were part of the show up until the last season which brought a new power : teleportation. Imagine Jamie and Claire teleporting from the witch trial to Lallybroch’s door in season 1, that would’ve been shitty. The company’s teleportation to Lord John’s house (and everyone popping up 600 miles away every 10 min or so) was bad too. The rhythm of the show felt like we were checking boxes to wrap everything up quickly and thus everything seemed simplistic.

I agree with what you said in an interview: if the idea of Henri-Christian’s death was too much why not just save him like they did and be done with it? Why send Marsali after the Count’s land like that? We don’t even know what happened to her and the children? My opinion : they had to kill no one, no fire at all, and the family could have kept on being printers in Savannah, that would’ve really wrapped their storyline properly. Jamie and Claire didn’t even get the right to be sad? (I really didn’t believe the grave scenes etc.)

Why so many flashback clips ? I know it’s free but it really bothered me. I felt out of it this season, I felt the actors acting and the flashbacks kinda remind you it is “only” a series.
The choice to change the way Jamie is shot is sooo overdone, and honestly kinda sad for the warrior he is, he doesn’t even get to be shot during the battle… And how lazy is the company that they didn’t feel like disarming their prisoner?

I’m okay with the decision to change the faith/fanny line, even though it feels even sadder to me than the simple (but dramatic) loss of one’s child; but to know that she lived (and died an horrible way) and you didn’t get to know her, it must be worst somehow. But in any case, if you create a new story for her, why take so much screen time for it and finally leave it open like that ? I would’ve loved to see less of her and more of Brianna and Jamie reuniting and talking about his father, Claire in her garden and such. This season is turned toward their announced death since min 1 and thus forget all about the life on the ridge.

In the end, I feel that most of us, with no experience at all, could’ve done a better job on the script both to respect your book and the quality of the show. Whilst making cuts needed to fit in 10 episode. Also, the house is so ugly and feels much more like a movie set than the old house. I can’t understand why not one room gets to have paint ? or a rug on the floor in the bedroom ? And the pottery is so out of place I couldn’t take my focus off of it (it maybe a professional deformation since I’m an archaeologist specialised on the matter but …) I understand they were less prosperous with the lost of the whisky trade but they’ve got a stash of gold…

I can’t wait for your book (I read them all in less than a year and i loved how the tv show and the book series complete each others, I find the books are so much richer but I loved the Sam/Caitriona interpretation) and thank you so much for the universe you created !

Carla D.