Outlander author Diana Gabaldon reveals she knew how Jamie and Claire’s story would end for 20 years

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ARTICLES

• the foreigner author Diana Gabaldon has been busy promoting the new book in the series – Go tell the bees that I’m gone.
• Ahead of the premiere of season 6 of the hit Starz season 6, Gabaldon hid a few secrets.
• Including the fact that she knew how Jamie and Claire’s story would end for 20 years.

the foreigner the author Diana Gabaldon has just published the ninth volume of her long series – Go tell the bees that I’m gone. Along with the launch of the novel, Gabaldon revealed secrets. About everything from how she started out as a writer to her involvement with the Starz the foreigner TV show. Including the fact that she knew how her popular time travel fantasy series would end for 20 years.

“Outlander” author Diana Gabaldon always knew she was “meant to be a novelist”

Gabaldon was working as a professor at Arizona State University in the late 1980s when she decided it was time to start writing her first novel. She told The Guardian that she had known from the age of 8 that she was “supposed to be a novelist”.

At the age of 35 – with three college degrees (including a doctorate) and three children under the age of six – she realized that she would have to start writing if being an author was truly her calling.

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It took Gabaldon 18 months to write the nearly 650 pages of the foreigner. And she did it all in secret.

The only exception being a group of friends she found on an online literary forum, who helped her sign with an agent and get a book deal after reading a sample.

There’s a reason it took Diana Gabaldon over 30 years to write the series.

The first one the foreigner novel was published in 1991, exactly 30 years before the release of the new book. The 69-year-old told Parade magazine that there was a specific reason it took him so long to tell the story of Claire and Jamie.

“One of the reasons it takes me so long to write these books is that I have to grow old with them,” Gabaldon explained. “I’ll be 70 in January, and I’m a different person than I was at 32 when I started writing the foreigner. Your perceptions and experiences change and deepen as you get older. And when you tell the story of a long-term marriage, it makes a difference.

Outlander author has known the end of the series for 20 years

A few weeks before the release of Go tell the bees that I’m gone, Gabaldon revealed that she has officially started writing the 10th and final novel of the the foreigner series. She’s not a linear writer who uses any type of outline, but Gabaldon says she already knows the ending. In fact, she knows how she the foreigner the series would end for 20 years.

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“It was about 20 years ago that I saw the end, and I got up in the middle of the night and wrote it with tears streaming down my face,” she says. “And no: I’m not telling you what it is.”

The Droughtlander novel lasted seven years

The release of Book Nine ended a seven-year Droughtlander novel, which was the longest-running ever. Gabaldon explained that the consultation on Starz’s TV adaptation really slowed her down. She also wrote some mysteries of Lord John Gray during this time.

But she promises she’ll have finished Book 10 before the TV show catches up with her. Thus, they can avoid the same fate suffered by Game of thrones in its last season.

“Outlander” author Diana Gabaldon takes pity on George RR Martin

The author says she feels “very sorry” for George RR Martin after what happened at the end of the HBO adaptation of his A song of ice and fire series of novels. Gabaldon explained that when Game of thrones caught up with Martin, he met the showrunners and told them what he was planning to do with his book, so they could write the final episodes accordingly.

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“Only they didn’t write accordingly. They took his stuff, twisted it and wrote their own ending, which was not at all what he had in mind but used whatever material he told them, “Gabaldon said. “They go [the Starz adaptation] never catch me. I will definitely finish the 10th book before they finish the show.

the foreigner Season 6 will air Sunday March 6, 2022 on Starz. Go tell the bees that I’m gone is now available wherever books are sold.