Tag: Diana Gabaldon

  • Diana Gabaldon takes her own Outlander tour

    BEST-SELLING author Diana Gabaldon got to experience the Outlander effect for herself when she hit the tourist trail of the show’s top locations. Outlander news from Private tours Edinburgh The US writer stunned fans of the Jacobite telly phenomenon at the weekend as she turned up at Culross in Fife and nearby Falkland Palace. Diana…

  • Outlander author Diana Gabaldon has received an award for boosting Scottish tourism

    Outlander author Diana Gabaldon has received an award for boosting Scottish tourism through her fantasy saga. Outlander news from Private tours Edinburgh . The US writer, 67, received an International Contribution to Scottish Tourism award at the Scottish Thistle awards. It comes as VisitScotland published a paper detailing how sites used in the TV adaptation…

  • Diana Gabaldon might write an episode of Outlander series five

    The good news today is that  seasons 5 and 6 have been confirmed ( as if there was any doubt about that ), and that Diana Gabaldon may be writing at least one episode. Creator of the Outlander book series that the STARZ show is based on, Gabaldon enjoys a bit more creative freedom with her creation than other…

  • Outlander author talks about George R.R. Martin’s struggles writing The Winds of Winter

    Diana Gabaldon, the author of the Outlander series and a friend of Martin’s, recently backed up that idea when speaking with fans last week. We’re not sure what question inspired her to talk about this conversation she had with Martin, but it was interesting.  So Gabaldon asked Martin how things were going with “the newest book.” Quoth Martin,…

  • Outlander fans visitor numbers to the Clan Fraser memorial are up

    Historians who maintain the Culloden Battlefield in Scotland are reportedly blaming fans of the novels and TV series for trampling the area around the Clan Fraser memorial . The property manager of Culloden says more than 180,000 people visited the battlefield last year, up 28 percent from 2016. Some even left behind little cutouts of…

  • Diana Gabaldon to dish on ‘Outlander’ at Savannah Book Fest

    Savannah Book Fest: Scientist-turned-novelist Diana Gabaldon to dish on ‘Outlander’ at sold-out opening address   In the late 1980s, Diana Gabaldon was a research scientist working in the field of behavioral ecology when she set out to explore a new hobby that would transform her career rather drastically. What became the New York Times bestselling series “Outlander” began as…