And a Happy World Outlander Day to all of you, too! <g>
I remember Publication Day for OUTLANDER, June 1, 1991. I was supposed to launch the book at a theater in Phoenix, event sponsored by a local library.
Only I forgot about it, not (yet) being in the habit of checking a calendar to find out what the heck I was meant to be doing on a particular day…
Luckily, cell phones had been invented, and my husband had one for his business. We had gone out to buy a set of bunkbeds for our housekeeper (or rather, for her kids), and were on our way home when the phone suddenly rang, with Doug’s secretary saying that the people at the theater were sort of wondering if I’d be much longer….
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So, on the first World Outlander Day (so to speak <g>), Not-Yet-Famous-Author ran into the theater, wearing cut-offs and a T-shirt, to introduce her first book to the world. <g> (The audience, bless them, waited for me.)
With many thanks to the fabulous Karen Henry, then, here’s a nice retrospective collection of quotes from the Outlander novels over the years.
https://www.outlandishobservations.com/2026/06/quick-quotes-in-celebration-of.html Link opens in a new browser tab or window.
And we’ll end with Thanks and Good Wishes to all of you (!), and a snippet from A BLESSING FOR A WARRIOR GOING OUT:
He walked through the town, downhill, up and then down again, to come out near the bay. That would do. Little as he liked being on water, being next to it was often soothing. Confirmed landsman that he was, he could still find a quiet sense of himself in the regular sound of water coming and going about its business.
“So long as I needn’t be on a [Gaelic equivalent of “f*cking”] boat,” he muttered, and made his way halfway down the slope to find a patch of grass and weeds that didn’t look like poison ivy in which he could lie down and have a wee chat with God.
Love,
–Diana
Read my 2019 blog discussing World Outlander Day. Also opens in a new browser tab or window.
Top image is the dust-jacket art from the first edition hardcover of OUTLANDER (Delacorte, U.S.A.)
Image of the Scottish Claymore is from the Darksword Armory – https://www.darksword-armory.com/medieval-weapon/medieval-swords/scottish-claymore-1319/