This News webpage features selected recent news about my books, writing, the Outlander TV series, and other projects I am working on. Some posts from my official social media accounts are included, too.
Items are arranged by the date the news was posted, in reverse chronological order, i.e., the newest first!
Happy Father’s Day 2025!
June 15, 2025:
Happy Father’s Day! To all our fathers, stepfathers, foster fathers, and those loving men who step up for those who need them.
A new excerpt from A BLESSING FOR A WARRIOR GOING OUT (Book 10):
How to pack for a rescue operation in which one has no idea where one may be, for how long, or under what circumstances?
Clothes… well, the possibility of having to hob-nob with the sort of people who would be disaffected by my normal wardrobe was remote, but couldn’t be totally discounted, either. We might need the good will of someone with influence. Read more…
GOOD OMENS
May 1, 2025
Well, first things first—
A Very (slightly ex post facto…) Happy Birthday to Sam Heughan! When he was first cast to play Jamie Fraser, I noted that he was born on April 30th, while Jamie’s birthday is May 1st—one on either side of the Beltane fire.
Beltane is the Celtic fire festival that marks the beginning of summer, so plainly a time of good omens. As it turned out, it was indeed a time of good omens for All Things Outlander, so it seems an appropriate time to offer up two bits of (what I assume will be) further Good News. One on either side of the fire, as it were…
Read more of my blog from May 1… including my announcement of the title of Book Ten…
OUTLANDER Anniversary
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Well, it’s March 6th. This is my anniversary—not of marriage—but of beginning to write a book. I knew from the age of eight that I was supposed to write books; I just didn’t know how.
I have had people ask me whether I regret not getting an English degree and starting writing sooner, instead of <ahem> wasting time on all those science degrees. (Really, people will say anything to someone they see as a Public Figure…) I actually never thought about that for a moment, and in retrospect, the answer is a solid “No.” I use every single thing I know or have learned when I write novels.
This News page was last updated on Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 2:25 p.m. (Central Time) by me, Diana Gabaldon, or Loretta, my Webmistress.