Very exciting!
I’ll be back later with observations on Game Day [g], but wanted to let y’all know right away that the launch party for the book is tonight _at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel_, not at the Poisoned Pen bookstore. (The Pen is organizing the event and selling books, but they can’t possibly cram hundreds of people into the bookstore.)
Rosana, my webmistress, sent out an email this morning to the website subscribers, welcoming them to the party, but mistakenly ended it with “…at the Poisoned Pen.” I’m sure she’ll be sending out a quick PS shortly [g], but wanted to put in an early word here, since I don’t know when she’ll get my email about it.
Hope to see many of you in person, tonight and on the road–and I hope ALL of you will enjoy the new book! Thanks for buying it. [smile]
I came to your book signing event at Davis Kidd bookstore in Nashville on Thursday evening. I very much enjoyed hearing your story and I hope you will return to Nashville when the next book is published. I share your books with everyone. My mom, dad, grandfather, sister, mother-in-law, and other friends have all read the Outlander series…some of us more than once. We love Jamie and Claire. Thank you for giving us these characters to "live with" in our imaginations.
Diana, thank you for the wonderful books, I have been hooked since I discovered Outlander in my High School library in 1992…and I've been through the painful process of waiting for each additional installment ever since. I do however re-read at least once a year…and start thinking in a Scottish accent after submersing myself in them for the week it takes me to read them.
They are marvelous books and I may come out and see you in Ottawa when you are here.
I sure hope that #8 is going to come sooner than the others, as I was literally surprised Echo ended when it did. Well, everyone hasn't finished it yet, so that's all I'll say.
Great books. Thanks!
I just finished reading Echo in the Bone and I do hope – PLEASE – that it won't take another four years until the next book. I really need to find out what happens to all those hanging storylines! See you here in Halifax where I shall pump you for information
Love, Love, Love these books. I've read them 3 times since being introduced to them 4 years ago. I think I really am addicted to Jamie and Claire and their romance! I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow and Echo is already packed. My best wishes Diana for contniued success! Clare
Ach! Wonderful book, Echo. Loved every page of it, but the cliffhangers will be the end of me. Please, please, please stop EVERYTHING else you are writing and concentrate on #8. Publication in 2010 (okay, maybe 2011 at the latest!) would be really peachy.
From your most devoted fan–
Marilyn Bartel
I absolutely love your books and can hardly wait to read the latest one!!
Diana,
Please don't get picked off in a cross walk in the next 3 or 4 years, as I am really invested in finding what happens especially to Jem etal.
Dee
58 pages in, if I hadn't had plans this weekend it would of been finished. LOVING IT. I love all of the Outlander books. You are one amazing author. Hopefully we'll see you in Boston one of these days. Enjoy the tour.
I will see you at the Barnes and Noble in Roseville, MN on October 1st!! Can't wait
Looking forward to meeting you at Borders in VA tomorrow! Although I couldn't wait til then to begin your latest. I'm mid-way through and I must say captivating! Completely enjoying–in fact, having a really hard time balancing my other books…hummm lets see Echo in the Bone or Jesuit Relations…Ft. Pontchartrain at Detroit or Echo in the Bone…LOL! Needless to say research is falling by the wayside! Tomorrow! meyre7@comcast.net
Dear Diana,
I am LOVING this book! I am enjoying the complexity and pace of the four storylines but am trying to pace myself and savour every line.
I wanted to ask you as the complexity increases does it ever get confusing for you? I can only imagine that holding both the historical and the fictional threads together has to boogle the mind once in a while.
Also, I want to say a very large thank you for saying there is at least one more book (this made me smile.) Your loyal fans know that 'at least' carries a lot of weight. The end is not in sight yet and I am glad!
Happy touring,
Jewell
OK,I've finished "Echo" and enjoyed every minute. Must say that I now know that you need to write at least one more. So many ends to keep following!
I waited a whole day before I went looking for Echo in Borders and Angus & Robertson, only to be told that it might be in the shipments due on Thursday. Might.
I then figured, I've requested it at two or three libraries, I'll wait for it there, then buy it in paperback when it comes out in a year or so.
Then I was at Borders again on Saturday, and found it – in trade paperback with the leafy cover (not the caltrops) – at $38.something. I flipped through it over a hot chocolate and put it back on the shelf.
Then I saw it in the latest Kmart catalogue for just $19.70 and my will is wavering. I actually need another bookcase, I've run out of room in my current ones. But is Echo the final straw that will break that particular camel's back???
Jen in Oz
Amazing is the only way to describe Diana's writings. I hope you dont take too long to publish the sequel to An Echo. The ending(s) took me by surprise, and that is hard to do!!!!
Please learn the difference between Thee & Thou.
I cannot wait for the next book. I hope is out next year!
Read somewhere on this blog that your husband, Doug, enjoys Beenie Weenies. We ate a variation of this growing up called a Baked Bean Sandwich. It consists of several slices of plain sandwich bread face up on a cookie sheet, beans (I use Bush's Vegetarian, but whatever) placed on top of the bread with a slotted spoon. Add sliced hot dogs and pepper to taste. Top it off with good ol' processed American (or whatever) and bake (open-faced) in the oven until heated and cheese just begins to brown. This is depression era cooking passed down through my family.
I finished Echo last night (9/29)! I savored it, like a fine wine, and it was worth it! Oh my goodness!!! I can't wait for #8!!!
Aaah!!! I ordered my signed copy from The Poisened Pen two weeks ago, I rush home after work every day and rip open the mailbox hoping it's arrived… No luck yet.
I too may begin stalking the postman…
I went and bought the book at 10 AM the day it came out. I was on page 6, reading on my way to the food court for breakfast, when a complete stranger shouted out, "Excuse me!" and hurried over.
"Yes?"
"Is that… is that?" She pointed frantically at the cover.
I grinned."The new Diana Gabaldon book?"
"YES!"
"It just came out today."
"Oh my goodness, where did you get it?"
"Coles."
She looked around, bewildered, as if expecting the bookstore had creeped up on her in the last ten seconds. "Where…?"
I pointed behind me, laughing. "That way!"
She grabbed my arm and said, "THANK YOU!!!" excitedly before running off. I just about grinned my face off for the next half hour. So from myself and from the other excited fan, thanks again! I can't believe I have another three or four years to wait for the next one!