WELCOME to the All-New, Completely Redesigned, and—with luck—Totally Updated Diana Gabaldon Official Website!
Many, many thanks to the very talented Jeremy Tolbert of Clockpunk Studios (www.clockpunkstudios.com), who did the new design (and guided me through the maze of learning to work with WordPress).
And many thanks to the lovely Rosana Gatti, who designed (more than once {g}) the original Diana Gabaldon website, and has run it for more years than I care to count.
(Thinking especially of longevity these days, as a) it’s my birthday {g}, and b) OUTLANDER (the novel) was published twenty (yes, 2_0) years ago!)
Now, there will be a few spots where I’ll add new material, links, excerpts or whatever as we go on, but I think the new site is essentially complete.
(There will be a link to a Facebook page, for instance, but that’s not quite available yet.
And my blog will now be an integral feature of the website, as well.
I hope you enjoy exploring the new site!
Do please let me know—there’s a place for comments, below, and on other parts of the site—if you see anything that doesn’t work, or have suggestions for things we may not have thought of that you’d like to see.
(And you can use the “Follow” links to talk to me via Twitter, if you’d like.)
Thanks-Diana
Love the new website!!!!!
I started reading Outlander last fall after a friend’s recommendation. Since then, I’ve read the seven Outlanders and just finished the third Lord John Grey. In the process, I’ve forgotten how to ride my bike, put on 5 pounds, and fallen in love with Jamie and Claire and Lord John too. I can’t imagine what it would have been like to wait 3 years between books and never know if it was the last one until reaching the last page!
One thing that surprised me was my husband. He’s an avid reader but has always said he doesn’t like first-person books, leans more to Stephen King and spy/mysteries. And Outlander was first-person from the point of view of a female character! He asked about it as I was obviously obsessed with it and I just said I liked it but no details. As soon as I finished, he picked it up. As he approached the end of the book he did mention that he usually didn’t like first-person books but went on to finish the series and the Lord John books before I did. We’re both impatiently awaiting the next one!
Thank you for the hard work you put into each one. You bring the 1800s to life.
Hello Diana ! I wonder : have you ever got comment from France ? I really don’t know. I’d like to thank you for your wonderful books “OUTLANDER” series. So inventive unusual amazing story ! About 10 years ago I was browsing among English books at WH SMITH’s bookstore in Paris when by a mere chance I took in hands “Dragonfly in amber” and THAT WAS IT… since I have got all the series books and I just bought “An echo in the bones” a few days ago. your new website is very good ! I have Spanish roots too from my maternal grd-mother’s side. So thanks for the good time you give us when reading (and re-reading !) your books ! Looking forward to the next one !! Many thanks. Take care, with best regards. A fan from France.
Diana,
You are my heroine! I’ve absolutely loved the series and have read the first book 4 times (totally insane, I know) but I re-read the series when a new book comes out. However, I probably have reached the point of stopping this now that there are so many books! I am anxiously awaiting the next one! I started a book club and can you guess our first book?!!!!!
I keep wishing for a series on cable (because it’s a bit too graphic for regualar channels). Kevin McKidd is a Scottish actor who would be a great Jamie. He’s on Grey’s Anatomy. He also played a Scottish lord in the movie “Made of Honor” starring Patrick Dempsey. Please check out his website or better yet, watch the movie which shows him singing, being charming, throwing telephone poles, and being a thoroughly rugged Scotsman.
Interestingly enough, I always pictured Claire with lighter brown hair of shoulder length, but very curly.
I am so glad that you’ve written these books. It is sad to think that they will end…..hmmmm….perhaps a
series based on the lives of Brianna and Roger could continue…….
Luckily, my family found the Sara Donati/R. Lippi series which I have devoured because of the connection in Into the Wilderness. Thank you again for hours of reading pleasure and of many discussions with friends about the books.
Sandy Cupp
I’m not writing for publication. I wanted to share my appreciation and to let you know I think Kevin McKidd
would be a great Jamie!
Thanks!
Sandy
I’m new here, but love the new website. I hope that this gets posted.
Dear Diana,
Happy Belated Birthday. I started reading Outlander in 1992, and have read all the books at least twice. But, Dear Diana, I have been retired for 11 years and am now 77 years old, so I must beg you to finish the latest one asap. I want to read ALL of them. Please, PLEASE. You are SUCH a talent, I love your spirit, your intellectual gifts, and your incredible humor.
Much love,
Jeanne
Diana I love the new website!!
Just finished “Echo In the Bone”. Have read the other books, as well as the Outlandish Companion. Was concerned that several story lines were not totally wrapped up in the “Bone”. Is there going to be another out coming book to cover these open story lines?? If so, how soon should it be out??
I love how you research things and events in such infinite detail. It makes the story lines so much more interesting. I know the Dunbonnet lived, as you stated in the Companion. About the rest of the main characters, they lived also, correct?? I have to believe that they did.
And what about Lallybroch?? Is it still standing today as it was 50 years ago??
Looking forward to the “Outlander” movie. Sure hope Gerard Butler plays Jamie. To me he is the consummate actor for James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser. Any idea when the movie will be out on the market in the theatres?? Or on DVD??
My next venture is the Lord John Gray series. Looking forward to continuing the adventure.
Belated Happy Birthday, Diana. :)))
Diana!
My mother and I have read all of the Outlander books (yummy) and are now going to walk about in Scotland on the West Highland way! Are there places we should be alerted to as part of the series? Or should we send you a list of towns, so you can understand the basic route?
Thanks,
Julia
Hi Diana,
Happy Birthday! I am writing to BEG you to continue the amazing Outlander Series!!! I couldn’t put it down until I had finished all of the books. WHAT A LEGACY you have created for us!!! Thanks for all of you hard work, and all of the ours you have devoted to making all of your readers so very enthralled with your characters! Donna
Hi Diana,
I just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed your books over the years. I can’t wait for the next one to come out. I have reread all of them more than 3 times. I’m just sitting here at the computer at 11 pm, I can’t sleep. So I’m looking on the computer. I saw that you well be in Surrey BC in Oct. I well be there again this year to get some of my book signed by you. I hope that you had a good summer so far. Well I quess I should go, getting sleepy now, take care. Again Thank You so much.
Kathy
I read all the books in french about Jimmy and Claire. I finished the last one,« Écho des coeurs lointains, volume 2 » for a long time and I would like to know if there is a new one coming soon ? I read the all books twice and I will read them another time. They are marvellous and we always want to know what will happen after. I’m sorry for my english, I’m french …
Have a nice day and please, don’t forget the «suite» when Jimmy just come back and Claire is married with Lord John…. what happen after ???????
it could be interresting if your web site could be traducted in french… Sorry, my english is so bad…
my son and i have read all 7 books of the outlander series and the lord john books. we are waiting patiently for the next book(s) of the two series. we are great fans of your writings.
Love your new website! I am now reading the Outlander series for the 3rd time! I am waiting on pins and needles for your next book. I am also ordering the new one “Scottish Prisoner” today.
Diana, you are the best author. Everyone and everything come alive and feel like they are part of our family! Keep up the good work. I think I sent a message earlier that my husband is related to the Lord Loval Simon Fraser! He was his 6th great grandfather! He is now reading your series and loving your books just as much as I do.
Forgot to mention that we also appreciate all your research and history that go into the books too! It makes it so interesting and so authentic.
Your fan,
Katie
Dear Ms Gabaldon,
Or if I may address you as Diana, many happy returns of the day, as we Brits say. Been living in Germany for more than 35 years, so the first books I read of yours were in German – a loan from a dear friend, whilst my youngest son, then 10 or 11 years old, was away on holiday for the first time – and my did they hit me. She had only given me part one and three!!! no. 2 was long gone somewhere. I was addicted. Ordered no. 2, devoured no. 1 in three days, my husband protested about the so-called “cold kitchen” (your translator knows what I mean). So, stay as perky and on your toes as I last saw you in Hamburg-Altona presenting one of your books. And hopefully, as witty and interesting as always. Best regards from a small village near Schneverdingen. Lbnl, congratulations on 20 years of successful writing! Yvonne Fietkau
I was an instant fan the moment I first read Outlander. I am curious as to how you researched the Scottish expressions. Did you have an editor from Scotland to help? Now I am plowing through the books once more on my IPod and am especially impressed with Davina Porter, whose portrayal of Scottish voices is especially masterful.
The one thing I notice is her constant mispronunciation of “plaid”. She pronounces it “played” instead of the correct “plad”. I even went so far as to look it up in the Oxford Dictionary thinking that there might be an alternative pronunciation. How did she manage to mispronounce the word all through her wonderful narration?Did no one catch it in time to correct it?
As you may guess, I was born in the UK. I must congratulate you on such a wonderful saga with such believable characters and accurate representation of the expressions of Scotland.
Dear Joan–
No, I just read everything I could get my hands on written by a Scot {g}, and listened obsessively to Scottish bands and folk-groups. (And talked to Scots, whenever I found one.)
Actually, Davina is also from the UK–she’s half-Scots, and married to a Scot. So I imagine the Recorded Books people took her word for the pronunciation there.
–Diana
I just finished An Echo in the Bone last night and felt like I was left hanging with no finality. So here I am searching the web trying to look for answers. So glad to see a continuation is upcoming, can’t wait. Love the Outlander series! You are the best!!
Boy oh boy nothing less than an epic, its just fantastic the whole outlander series. What more could I say. Olive
Dear Diana,
I miss your imagination and your characters. Thank you for this wonderful epic.
I live in Quebec City and it was really nice to follow William throughout our past. I can’t wait to read more.
Thank you again.
Chantal Robin
Well Happy, Happy belated B Day to you and many Blessings uopn you always… So I’ve read Scottish Prisoner and now I’m reading An Echo in the Bone and Jamie make’s reference to being at Helwater… How does he get back home, to Claire?? And thank you for your imagination, it’s Awesome!!!! I Love your writings, although didn’t read the Lord John series, am really plugged into The Outlander series…… Blessed Be Sister This is the first time I’ve been on this web page, how could I have asked this before???
Dear Cristal–
I’m usually talkin’ to the multitudes, not to individuals. [g] Of course you can ask anything you like here–but I’m not sure I understand your question. How did Jamie get back from Scotland to America at the end of ECHO? He and his sister found another ship. I don’t know what that has to do with a reference to Helwater, though.
–Diana