Diana Gabaldon
For Outlander fans, this week brought good news and bad news. First, the good news: Last week, Diana Gabaldon sold the 8th book in the saga to her current publisher Delacorte. Bad news: The new book won’t be published until 2013. But then, Gabaldon fans are used to waiting four years for a new installment. 600 pages weren’t written in a day, after all. In an interview last fall, Gabaldon gave BookPage a peek into her writing process:
“I don’t write with an outline. In fact, I don’t write in a straight line. I write when I can see things happening. What I need on any given day to start writing is what I call a kernel. A line of dialogue, an emotional ambience, anything I can sense very concretely. I write very painstakingly in these little disconnected bits. But as I write these disconnected pieces, and I continue doing research and of course thinking about the book all the time, they begin to stick together. They develop little connections.” (read the rest of the interview)
Related in BookPage
1997 interview for Drums of Autumn
Review of 2005′s A Breath of Snow and Ashes
2009 interview for An Echo in the Bone
Author photo © Jennifer Watkins
What will be released between The Exile and the 8th in the Outlander series. I am suffering from Jaimie and Clare withdrawl after finishing Echoe in the Bone.The Exile just wasn’t a good enough fix. I need something I can sink my teeth into. So please let me know when your next release is scheduled. Thanks and I just love your stuff.
Barb.