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.
Arby, our “House Hyena,” in the photo at right.
Items are arranged by the date the news was posted, in reverse chronological order, i.e., the newest first!
“I’ll Tell Ye…”
December 7, 2025 – Second Sunday of Advent
Fraser made a sound indicating acceptance and no more was said between them until they stopped at a small creek to water the horses and have a piss.
“I dinna ken much about your life of late,” Fraser said casually, as they were about to remount, “and ye dinna ken aught of mine. If there’s something ye want to know, ask and I’ll tell ye. Anything, so long as the story is mine to tell.”
Read more of this new excerpt from A BLESSING FROM A WARRIOR GOING OUT (Book 10).
“Weigh, Hey, and Up She Rises…”
November 30, 2025 – The First Sunday of Advent
Minnie had always liked uncertainty. Not knowing whether the books she’d rummaged out of an attic in Paris were trash or splendid treasure, not knowing whether the next person to walk through the bookshop’s door was a customer or a Jacobite spy. Not knowing what the babies she’d carried for months inside her would be like in her arms, let alone what they might grow up to be.
And not knowing what her husband would do next. Domestic bliss was, of course, blissful—but living on a knife’s-edge now and then suited her. Now and then, being, of course, the important bit.
Read more of this new excerpt from A BLESSING FOR A WARRIOR GOING OUT (Book 10).
Friday, November 21, 2025
Well, this is new news!
“OUTLANDER Author Hand-Picks Texas A&M to House her Literary Archives”
The “Outlander” universe, in which a time-traveling British nurse finds adventure and romance with an 18th-century Scottish warrior, is coming to Aggieland.
The best-selling book series author, Dr. Diana Gabaldon, has selected Texas A&M University’s Cushing Memorial Library & Archives as the permanent home for her literary papers, notes and memorabilia from the historical science fiction, adventure-romance series and its hit streaming adaptation.
“Blood of My Blood” Now on Starz!
August 8, 2025
Exciting news… the new Blood of My Blood series premiered on Starz on August 8, 2025 in the U.S.A. The first two episodes were released.
It’s wonderful. I really, really like this show, and I hope you all will, too!
Check out the trailer on Youtube.
“BOB” for short, this new tv series will explore both Jamie’s and Claire’s parents who, of course, lived in different time periods. No doubt the new Sony/Starz tv series and the book I am writing about Jamie’s parents will have a few things in common. <g>
Episodes are available via the Starz streaming service or through cable providers. For access in other countries around the globe, please check with your local cable and streaming services.
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 Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 3:00 a.m. (Central Time) by me, Diana Gabaldon, or Loretta, my Webmistress.