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“With my goods I thee endow, with my body I thee worship…” Grey, in the front pew with Percy Wainwright, was close enough to see the expression on the General’s face, which surprised him with its soft intensity.  He was the more surprised–and not a little taken aback–to catch an answering flash of response from the Countess’s eyes. He experienced that peculiar crawling of the flesh that attends any child’s sudden realization that a parent must not only have engaged at some comfortably primeval date in the theoretical carnal act that resulted in his own existence–but was capable of doing it again in the all-too-physical present. He glanced quickly at Percy, to see whether this frisson of horror was shared, but saw only an expression of subdued wistfulness on Percy’s mobile face.  Of course it would not be the same, he reminded himself; the General was in fact not Percy’s father.  There would be no bar to his imagining…he choked that line of thought off at the root, staring hard […]

Below are some answers to commonly-asked questions about Diana’s OUTLANDER-series characters. (Read carefully, as some questions contain "spoilers.") All answers are from Diana, either written for this FAQ or are quotes from interviews, articles or her posts online: How do you develop your characters? Do you keep charts or index cards to keep track of them? No, I don’t keep charts of characters–I don’t write down anything much but the text of the book, and I don’t even write that in a straight line. I write in scenes; lots of little pieces that eventually get glued together. In the later books, I do have to sort of count back and see what month of what year it is when a given scene takes place, so I’ll know what the weather should be like, but that’s about as far as it goes. I don’t forget the characters, because I can "see" them. As for where the characters come from: There’s a local group of fans here in Phoenix who took me […]

The Frequently Asked Questions about Diana Gabaldon and The Outlander Series have been taken from her answers to the questions from her online fans (America OnLine and CompuServe). In most cases, the answers are direct quotes from Diana’s posts. In others, she has edited the original answer to include more information. Readers be cautioned that some of the answers to these questions will contain SPOILERS. If you don’t want to know anything about the future books, be cautious in your reading. I will try to note which questions contain spoilers. (After following a link below, simply select the “Back” key in your browser to return to the index.) Publishing Information Where did you get the idea for a time-travel novel? How did Outlander get published? What is Cross Stitch? Why is there a date discrepancy between Outlander and Cross Stitch with regard to the birth of Geillis Duncan? Why did you choose Scotland during the Jacobite period as the setting for your books? Is there any significance to the title […]

Frequently Asked Questions Note: These FAQ pages are in the process of being updated. Thanks! Readers, be cautioned that some of the answers to these questions will contain SPOILERS. If you don’t want to know anything about the future books, be cautious in your reading. I will try to note which questions contain spoilers, but can’t promise that I’ll catch everything. MOST of the Frequently-Asked Questions are listed below.  The links to the right are for easier navigation. So where did you get the idea to write these books? If you mean where did I get the idea to write a book, period—I always knew I was meant to write novels; I just didn’t know how. Finally decided I should try, and luckily I turned out to be reasonably good at it. If you mean, why did I write books set in Scotland but that otherwise defy description— it was an accident. I thought I’d write a book for practice, just to learn how, and thought perhaps a historical novel […]

A voice spoke suddenly behind him in a tone of absolute amazement, and he turned toward the lieutenant who had been screaming an instant before. A cannonball came skipping across the ground like a stone across a pond, struck a buried rock, hopped high, and smashed through the lieutenant’s head, removing it. Blood fountained from the still-standing body, spraying several feet into the air.  Ropes of blood lashed Grey’s face and chest, blinding him, shocking hot through his wet clothes.  Gasping, he dashed a sleeve across his eyes, clearing them in time to see the lieutenant’s body fall, arms thrown wide in boneless grace.  The sword he had been holding rolled from his grasp, silver in the grass. Grey seized it in reflex, and whirled on the gun-crew, who had begun to edge away from the smoking cannon.  The bombardier was nearest; he fetched the man a blow across the side of the head with the flat of his blade that sent him reeling back across the gun’s barrel, then […]

These are links to Interesting Stuff, Useful Sites, and Other People’s Blogs  that have something to do with my books, and might be interesting. Here is the Compuserve Books and Writers Community.  This has been my primary online hang-out for the last twenty-five years, and the owner has been kind enough to give me my own “Diana Gabaldon” folder for the last several years.   This is where you’d find the most in-depth discussions of my novels (last time I looked, there were roughly 3500 messages regarding What Happened between Claire and Lord John at the end of ECHO, alone), and where you can ask me questions; I’m there most days, except when on the road or in the Final Frenzy of finishing a book.   To the left of the Home page you’ll see a list of folders–these are the sections of this Forum.  One of them is labeled “Diana Gabaldon”–but do explore the others, too.  (I often put things in the “Research and Craft” folder–where we discuss the craft of […]