Very exciting!
I'll be back later with observations on Game Day [g], but wanted to let y'all know right away that the launch party for the book is tonight _at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel_, not at the Poisoned Pen bookstore. (The Pen is organizing the event and selling books, but they can't possibly cram hundreds of people into the bookstore.)
Rosana, my webmistress, sent out an email this morning to the website subscribers, welcoming them to the party, but mistakenly ended it with "...at the Poisoned Pen." I'm sure she'll be sending out a quick PS shortly [g], but wanted to put in an early word here, since I don't know when she'll get my email about it.
Hope to see many of you in person, tonight and on the road--and I hope ALL of you will enjoy the new book! Thanks for buying it. [smile]
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If I could hop on a plane from Canada right now I would!! But I'll have to settle for my local Chapters instead, and a quiet corner in my house later to dive into Echo!!!!! Have a WONDERFUL time, and I'll see you at your signing in Calgary at Wordfest! WOOT!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately (for me), you won't be coming here (Ireland) and though I'll be in New York next month my timing/location Stateside is all wrong. But first things first when I get off the plane in NYC: find bookshop, buy Echo. Can't wait:)
ReplyDeleteAlready can't put it down...thank you for this gift!
ReplyDeleteDiana,
ReplyDeleteIf you want to reach a wide audience with this information right away, you may want to add it as a status on your Facebook page. All of the people who have signed up to be fans will immediately see the message in their news feed.
I came very close to buying a plane ticket from Boston to meet you tonight, but just couldn't swing it this time, though some friends of mine will be there. I do hope to meet you some day.
Congratulations on the release of the book!
Thanks,
Nicole Z
Congratulations! My copy is sitting on the dining room table, though I have only been able to read the first couple of pages, since a little someone has refused to nap (today of *all* days!)
ReplyDeleteI am keeping my fingers crossed to see you tomorrow night at the Tattered Cover in Denver!
Somehow the bookstore in my city put Echo in the Bone out on Sept. 21. I go my hands on it at noon and I'm reading and loving it. Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteHooray! I need to get my rear end to the bookstore!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on another completed and published project...and thank you!
Whoo HOOOO!! Congratulations! Have a glass of champers for me.
ReplyDeleteSee you at the SiWC
I sure wish I could be there, but alas I am stuck in Wisconsin working and taking care of two small boys! :-) I received an email yesterday that my pre-ordered copy of the book is in the mail. I can't WAIT until it arrives!
ReplyDeleteYipee! I can't wait :o) My friends and I think the bookstores need to open before 10 a.m.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the release of the book!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to reading it.
I have it and already love it-- can't wait to read more.
ReplyDeleteHave a fantastic release day! I won't get to see my copy until tomorrow and I gotta tell ya, I'm savouring the anticipation. ;)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on another (sure to be) spectacular book and "well done" in advance!
Congratulations! Shame this one is not a Munich release, but maybe London next time :-) Hope it is every bit as successful for you as the past. Your hard work is an inspiration!
ReplyDeleteIs it weird that I'm nervous to read it?! I'm dealing with the sick feeling that the series may end! I don't know if I can handle that! LOL! But then again it is an addiction that needs to be fed! Going to get mine tonight! Congrats on the release date! Woot!
ReplyDeleteooooo! It's so hard to wait to buy this, but I'm sticking to my original plan. Can't wait to start reading in a few weeks!!! Congratulations on the release and have a wonderful party!
ReplyDeleteI am so excited! Thanks to your wonderful publishers I won't have to wait until January. So now I start stalking the postman!
ReplyDeleteOh my, thank you so much for all the hard Mrs. Gabaldon. I can not tell you how much I love the series. I honestly went to the bookstore today just for the book, lol. I can't wait to get finished reading the others (for the sixth time at least) so that I can be up to date to read this one. Thanks again.
ReplyDeleteHey enjoy the party! You deserve it!! I picked up my copy of Echo this morning in Mountain View, CA, and I look forward to seeing you there in a couple of weeks. Thank you again for writing so well and for traveling so much to meet and greet!
ReplyDeleteHappy Echo day! Mine is pre-ordered from Amazon and was shipped today! Can't wait to get it!
ReplyDeleteI also got a copy a day early--my bookstore called yesterday and said my copy was ready to pick up, and I wasn't inclined to inquire as to why--and I dove into it right away. I had to change my dinner plans to accomodate this very pleasant surprise...oh well, leftovers it is!
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Diana, the pages have me hooked!
PS: I just wanted to tell you that your "acknowledgements" section and I find them THE most entertaining! I have laughed out many times over the years!
ReplyDelete"Echo in the Bone" feels nice and substantial in my hands, and I am so looking forward to delving into it tonight.
ReplyDeleteI am lucky as this year I get to see you in Calgary at Word fest. It will require an early rise and a long drive, but a great opportuntiy to thank you in person for all your hard graph on our behalf!
Good luck for Game Day! Bought my copy this morning. I'm loving it so far! Thank you.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on Echo's release, Diana! I'm a recent convert to the series so have lots of catching up to do!
ReplyDeleteCarol Garvin
I am so excited about this latest edition! I am rereading all the previous ones to get ready!!! I need to HURRY! I am only on Drums of Autum.
ReplyDeleteHope you come to the Panhandle of Florida area...(Pensacola, HINT HINT!)
PS- my best friend graduates CRNA (nurse anesthesia) school NEXT August. I got her a book, but she is making me keep it at my house until she graduates b/c she is afraid she will read it. When I got her started on the series she didn't sleep for about two days.
ReplyDeleteYou just can't put these down! You just get so nervous something is going on without you..you just have to know!
I've had my copy on order for weeks now, but the book shop says "the computer says it was released yesterday, but we don't have it. Maybe by the end of the week?"
ReplyDeleteI'm very jealous of all the people that are reading it already!
Impatiently awaiting the Swedish translation. Not due till June the publisher says... *sigh*
ReplyDeleteBut I am looking forward to celebrating Midsummer with Claire & Jamie... ;)
Dear Nicole--
ReplyDeleteI haven't had anything _like_ time to figure out how to do anything intelligent with Facebook yet, I'm afraid. [g]
But if you're in Boston, hop on the train and come down to DC for the signing on the 29th at Bailey's Crossroads, VA! Probably cheaper than flying to Phoenix. [g]
Dear Angela--
ReplyDeleteWell, you could just ask me, you know. [g] No, this isn't the last book; I only got as far as 1778, and I do need to get all the way through the American Revolution, so there will certainly be at least _one_ more book!
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ReplyDeleteI already have it in South Korea, and have the first few chapters read! VERY excited! I just got my my 23 year-old sister hooked on the series--I love passing it along. :) She keeps saying, "Edward and Bella got nothing on Jamie and Claire!!" ...my sentiments exactly ;) Living abroad,the series is my go-to comfort reading. Thank you SO much for keeping me entertained all these years. Every time I re-read the series, I'm swept away again. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm 150 pages in and lovin' it! Thanks again for a wonderful story.... I'd have stayed up all night, but I was already nodding and almost dropped the book!
ReplyDeleteI'll see you Saturday!!! I'm so excited. Love these books.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Diana! Now you get to travel all over the place and we lucky fans get to meet up with you. Can't wait, see you in Mountain View.
ReplyDeleteBTW, my co-workers were so glad when yesterday was over because I was useless all day waiting to get home and start reading. :)
Good luck on your exhausting schedule!! I really don't know how you do it, it sounds absolutely grueling! I'm excited about some of the things you mentioned in your facebook chat yesterday! A Master Raymond book!! That is awesome, he is one of the characters that I definitely would love to see a book about! But something struck me, and since I couldn't participate in the chat (I was taking my 2 toddlers to a movie, Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, I highly recommend it!) I was wondering if I could ask you a question?
ReplyDeleteYou have mentioned before possible books about Ellen and Black Brian (Jamie's parents), Roger's parents, Master Raymond, and the already published Lord John series. You also mentioned that you are going to do a modern mystery novel, but it seems to me, the (REALLY) humble observer, that you mostly stick to the characters that were born out of Outlander.
Do you find it hard, once you have created a character for a supporting role, to leave their story untold? Do they come alive and start speaking to you until you feel like you will burst if you don't get it out? Or is it, a lot like us, that you have fallen in love with the characters and have a hard time letting them go?
Thank you for your consideration! I hope you have time to see some sights during this tour, if you catch your breath long enough!! Thank you for being so accessible to us normal folk!
I was so disappointed that B & N sent me an email that my preordered audiobook (Davina Porter's narration I hope!) is on backorder for 30 days! I was so hoping to start it this week. But, you know, I will continue to savor the anticipation until it gets here. Thank you, dear DG, for what you do. And the best of all luck with AEITB.
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ReplyDeleteI am picking my copy up tonight that I preordered from Chapters and I am so excited to start since I finished the last of the series at the beginning of the summer and I have missed having Claire and Jamie in my life! My 8 year old stepson is always interested in what I am reading and is very aware of the upcoming novel (as I have been doing the countdown since June)he wants to know how Claire and Jamie are doing so I have to get reading! I will see you in Ottawa on October 14th!
ReplyDeleteFINISHED IT!!!! I cannot BELIEVE the cliffhangers you left you naughty author! LOL The last 100 pages or so felt a bit rushed, but maybe it was ME rushing thru! I will definitely do an immediate reread now so as to absorb it all more completely. NOW HURRY UP DIANA WITH THE NEXT ONE ;) LOL xoxo melzie
ReplyDeleteDiana, it was a pleasure meeting you last night! Thank you for your time and taking care of everyone there. I'm guessing there were a few thousand that showed up. AND, last but not least my manners escaped my last night. You gave me a compliment and I failed to thank you. So, THANK YOU!
ReplyDeletelistening to the unabridged tapes for the 3rd time!!! in preperation... can't wait!!
ReplyDeleteI still have not received mine (groan amazon) But you have me very curious about the "I didn't see that one coming" moment, trying to figure out what could it possible be.. I will have to keep you posted...lol
ReplyDeleteGot my copy yesterday but for some reason i keep taking breaks while reading it...i do not want it to end and then have to wait another 3 years for the next adventure.
ReplyDeleteSigh...so bittersweet!
Echo time! I'm so pumped!
ReplyDeleteI just finished the book...it was amazing! I'm a bit sad to be leaving Jamie, Clair, Ian, Rachel, Brianna, and Roger...you simply must be writing another book...there are so many cliff hangers!!! I will wait a few months and read all 7 again! Thank you so much for this book! I wasn't expecting another...now I expect at least one more! lol
ReplyDeleteVERY UPSET- Initially told in NZ the Echo will be released today (24 Sept) but when I turned up was told that it won't be out till 28 Sept!!! sorely disappointed :( have to wait another 4days...
ReplyDeleteDear Diana,
ReplyDeleteThe professor for my Africa Discovering Europe class had the nerve to schedule our library research for Tuesday night 5-8!!! It was horrible. I just sat and stared at the clock, imagining what was going on at the party. Lets just say my teacher kept getting the evil eye from me. Hopefully I will be at your event at Changing Hands in Tempe. Hope the party was hoppin.
Keighley Fleming
me too, me too!!!
ReplyDeleteI am waiting here in New Zealand to get my hands on it. AND!!! it is school holidays so I will take a few days off to enjoy a good read.
And and, I've booked to meet you in New Zealand - gotta get a photo & autograph hope you don't mind adoring fans grin!
Love Leanne
Several book stores in Calgary were already sold out yesterday!! I was feeling smug because my sister scooped me a copy at a store she found. I am looking forward to immersing myself in more stories and adventures of Claire, Jaime, Roger and Brianna, and other family and friends....
ReplyDeleteYou are an awesome author, Diana. Many thanks for this exciting adventure!!
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ReplyDeleteWish I had a copy - even with the offer to UK residents for a free trade copy it is going to be DAYS before I get one - and some of you have read it already!
ReplyDeleteOh well, back to the ironing and re-listening to a Breath of Snow and Ashes - at least it makes the ironing bearable!
Diana,
ReplyDeleteThank you, Thank you, Thank you. I haven't even opened the book yet because I am relishing the anticipation. I want this moment to last as long as it can. The beginning. Thank you!
I'm so excited about the newest Outlander book being out! I've been sitting at the hospital with my father for the last week and a half, and last night my hubby drove up and took me out for sushi and then to Barnes & Noble so I could get my copy. I've already started it and love it so far!!
ReplyDeleteDear Diana,
ReplyDeleteVery nicely done. I'm a few chapters into Echo & have already had a lightbulb moment. Whether I'm on the right track remains to be seen. :D
Well played. My hat goes off to you.
C
Really enjoyed our trip from Chicago to be at the Party! My husband blushed a bit from the excerpt. Really admire your sense of humor and graciousness in the face of the hundreds of us waiting for your personalization. Your poor hand!
ReplyDeleteI happened to be in Denver the other day (was visiting from another state) and was unable to make your book signing at the Tattered Cover. I was so hoping to be there to thank you. Hope it was a great signing!
ReplyDeleteI was at Barnes and Noble when they opened the doors on Tuesday morning. I had preordered my copy and nearly caused the woman at the counter bodily injury when she told me I should come back the next day to get it. Suffice it to say I left with my copy in hand, lol. I basically havent done anything but read for the past 3 days. I just read the last sentence a half an hour ago and am sitting here in a bit of a stupor. I am actually kicking myself for being so eager, knowing how long I will have to wait for the next installment!
ReplyDeleteI thank you for these books and these characters. I was born about 200 miles from Culloden, my family are Protestant lowlanders, lol. You have encouraged me to learn the history not only of the country of my birth but also of the United States where I now reside. The only word I can use to describe my new found interest is obsession. I dont know that my family would thank you considering they have been eating take out all week. LOL!
Very much enjoyed Echo! Thank you! Would love to hear Jamie's opinion on Voltaire's Candide since you had them dining together in Paris.
ReplyDeleteDiana it was so wonderful to listen to you speak and "read" from your new book. We were all giggling like girls at the particular passage. :) Many thanks! We hope you'll come back to Lexington really soon.
ReplyDeletelaurie eller
Just to say that I am delighted that my promised UK paperback arrived this morning! I have a long train trip to Scotland later in the week so will save it for then. I shall be staying with another Outlander fan who will be "gripped off" that I have a copy of the new book before her.
ReplyDeleteI came to your book signing event at Davis Kidd bookstore in Nashville on Thursday evening. I very much enjoyed hearing your story and I hope you will return to Nashville when the next book is published. I share your books with everyone. My mom, dad, grandfather, sister, mother-in-law, and other friends have all read the Outlander series...some of us more than once. We love Jamie and Claire. Thank you for giving us these characters to "live with" in our imaginations.
ReplyDeleteDiana, thank you for the wonderful books, I have been hooked since I discovered Outlander in my High School library in 1992...and I've been through the painful process of waiting for each additional installment ever since. I do however re-read at least once a year...and start thinking in a Scottish accent after submersing myself in them for the week it takes me to read them. :)
ReplyDeleteThey are marvelous books and I may come out and see you in Ottawa when you are here.
I sure hope that #8 is going to come sooner than the others, as I was literally surprised Echo ended when it did. Well, everyone hasn't finished it yet, so that's all I'll say.
Great books. Thanks!
I just finished reading Echo in the Bone and I do hope - PLEASE - that it won't take another four years until the next book. I really need to find out what happens to all those hanging storylines! See you here in Halifax where I shall pump you for information
ReplyDeleteLove, Love, Love these books. I've read them 3 times since being introduced to them 4 years ago. I think I really am addicted to Jamie and Claire and their romance! I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow and Echo is already packed. My best wishes Diana for contniued success! Clare
ReplyDeleteAch! Wonderful book, Echo. Loved every page of it, but the cliffhangers will be the end of me. Please, please, please stop EVERYTHING else you are writing and concentrate on #8. Publication in 2010 (okay, maybe 2011 at the latest!) would be really peachy.
ReplyDeleteFrom your most devoted fan--
Marilyn Bartel
I absolutely love your books and can hardly wait to read the latest one!!
ReplyDeleteDiana,
ReplyDeletePlease don't get picked off in a cross walk in the next 3 or 4 years, as I am really invested in finding what happens especially to Jem etal.
Dee
58 pages in, if I hadn't had plans this weekend it would of been finished. LOVING IT. I love all of the Outlander books. You are one amazing author. Hopefully we'll see you in Boston one of these days. Enjoy the tour.
ReplyDeleteI will see you at the Barnes and Noble in Roseville, MN on October 1st!! Can't wait :)
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to meeting you at Borders in VA tomorrow! Although I couldn't wait til then to begin your latest. I'm mid-way through and I must say captivating! Completely enjoying--in fact, having a really hard time balancing my other books...hummm lets see Echo in the Bone or Jesuit Relations...Ft. Pontchartrain at Detroit or Echo in the Bone...LOL! Needless to say research is falling by the wayside! Tomorrow! meyre7@comcast.net
ReplyDeleteDear Diana,
ReplyDeleteI am LOVING this book! I am enjoying the complexity and pace of the four storylines but am trying to pace myself and savour every line.
I wanted to ask you as the complexity increases does it ever get confusing for you? I can only imagine that holding both the historical and the fictional threads together has to boogle the mind once in a while.
Also, I want to say a very large thank you for saying there is at least one more book (this made me smile.) Your loyal fans know that 'at least' carries a lot of weight. The end is not in sight yet and I am glad!
Happy touring,
Jewell
OK,I've finished "Echo" and enjoyed every minute. Must say that I now know that you need to write at least one more. So many ends to keep following!
ReplyDeleteI waited a whole day before I went looking for Echo in Borders and Angus & Robertson, only to be told that it might be in the shipments due on Thursday. Might.
ReplyDeleteI then figured, I've requested it at two or three libraries, I'll wait for it there, then buy it in paperback when it comes out in a year or so.
Then I was at Borders again on Saturday, and found it - in trade paperback with the leafy cover (not the caltrops) - at $38.something. I flipped through it over a hot chocolate and put it back on the shelf.
Then I saw it in the latest Kmart catalogue for just $19.70 and my will is wavering. I actually need another bookcase, I've run out of room in my current ones. But is Echo the final straw that will break that particular camel's back???
Jen in Oz
Amazing is the only way to describe Diana's writings. I hope you dont take too long to publish the sequel to An Echo. The ending(s) took me by surprise, and that is hard to do!!!!
ReplyDeletePlease learn the difference between Thee & Thou.
ReplyDeleteI cannot wait for the next book. I hope is out next year!
ReplyDeleteRead somewhere on this blog that your husband, Doug, enjoys Beenie Weenies. We ate a variation of this growing up called a Baked Bean Sandwich. It consists of several slices of plain sandwich bread face up on a cookie sheet, beans (I use Bush's Vegetarian, but whatever) placed on top of the bread with a slotted spoon. Add sliced hot dogs and pepper to taste. Top it off with good ol' processed American (or whatever) and bake (open-faced) in the oven until heated and cheese just begins to brown. This is depression era cooking passed down through my family.
ReplyDeleteI finished Echo last night (9/29)! I savored it, like a fine wine, and it was worth it! Oh my goodness!!! I can't wait for #8!!!
ReplyDeleteAaah!!! I ordered my signed copy from The Poisened Pen two weeks ago, I rush home after work every day and rip open the mailbox hoping it's arrived... No luck yet.
ReplyDeleteI too may begin stalking the postman...
I went and bought the book at 10 AM the day it came out. I was on page 6, reading on my way to the food court for breakfast, when a complete stranger shouted out, "Excuse me!" and hurried over.
ReplyDelete"Yes?"
"Is that... is that?" She pointed frantically at the cover.
I grinned."The new Diana Gabaldon book?"
"YES!"
"It just came out today."
"Oh my goodness, where did you get it?"
"Coles."
She looked around, bewildered, as if expecting the bookstore had creeped up on her in the last ten seconds. "Where...?"
I pointed behind me, laughing. "That way!"
She grabbed my arm and said, "THANK YOU!!!" excitedly before running off. I just about grinned my face off for the next half hour. So from myself and from the other excited fan, thanks again! I can't believe I have another three or four years to wait for the next one!
Finished Echo last night and regaled a very puzzled husband with my wails about a) cliff hangers and b) having to wait until the next book. LOL!
ReplyDeleteOMGoodness...I'm on tenterhooks about it all. My fingernails won't last the distance! So afraid for wee Jem.
THANK YOU! I think. *grin* ;)
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ReplyDeleteWell, my lady...you didn't lie. There were more tears and a lot of great story!! Thank you for a wonderful ride. I look forward to the next book. And thanks for the great time in Lexington!
ReplyDeleteim 223 pages in and i love it. LOVE IT. I read the first 6 books back to back. i nearly jumped out of my skin when i first read the name Dr. Weatherspoon. it made my day.
ReplyDeleteyours truly, Rebekah Weatherspoon :)
Dear Heather--
ReplyDeleteWell, people just kind of come and talk to me...but they talk much more easily if I'm paying attention to them. [g] And since my mind is so much focused on the milieu of the OUTLANDER books, it's easier for someone from that to catch my attention, as it were. Others _do_ talk to me, though--it's just a matter of time, as to when I can stop and listen intently to them.
Deb--
ReplyDeleteThe ECHO unabridged recording should be available within the next two weeks! Davina just finished making it last week (I only finished _writing_ the book about six weeks ago, which made it difficult for the Recorded Books people, I'm afraid). Can't wait to listen to it myself!
Dear Kathy--
ReplyDeleteI know the difference between Thee and Thou. [g] Please read the Author's Note (in the back) regarding Quaker Plain Speech, ca. 1770. I can give you the scholarly references for that, if you like.
am delighted to hear that the divine Davina is again narrating the unabridged book - and I did expect that; she is a wonderful actress and so perfect for your books. In fact, when I've heard her narrate other books, I've had to stop and say wait, wait that's Claire, not Isobel Dalhousie (or whomever the character is) and readjust my perspective to the new character.
ReplyDeleteOn another subject, I get so angry at the -- albeit few here on this site -- people who feel compelled to leave hurtful, arrogant, and just plain mean comments for you. If you're so upset by the direction an author takes with their own character, just don't read the book, or future books! I think it's that simple. But to leave a really mean or otherwise negative comment on a public site is just plain stupid. Well, I guess I figured out right there why they do it; they're just plain stupid! Poor things. Take a breath, Diana, pack some clean undies, and go out into the book-tour world and knock 'em dead. I met you at the tea in Flagstaff, and I know your incredibly open, friendly, and welcoming personality just runs right over those negativers. All the best!
Congratulations Diana! Can't wait to see you in Ottawa next week!
ReplyDeletejust finished Echo today. tried to savor but about 1/2 way, began devouring. at some point today i think my husband became frustrated but i'm unsure and now that i've reached the finale, i will check in with him.
ReplyDeletei am not looking forward to the wait for numero 8. how does everyone manage? i read Outlander in Feb of this year and was able to begin a new book in the series as soon as i'd finished the previous.
at this point, i think of Jamie & Claire as good friends and fully expect to miss them. have downloaded the audio versions of the books on audible to help with the pangs.
thank you, Diana, for this spectacular thrill ride of reading ... i think {wink!}
I just finished Echo and absolutely loved it! I was sad it was over and have decided to go back to the beginning. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteLoved it!!! I am just sorry there will not be a book before 3 years, but you enjoy your much earned and needed break. I just talked my husband into reading the series. There is just enough blood and violence in them for him to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteWish you were coming to a city near me, or that I had the means to go to one that you are already going to, but... Just finished An Echo in the Bone and Oh, my. Laughing, crying, screaming (which freaked out my 6 year old little man). You never dissappoint.
ReplyDeleteOn a totally random note, I was searching far and wide for Interesting Things to Read, when I came accross this...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/philip-wylie/corpses-at-indian-stones.htm
Apparently Philip Wylie is more then he appears! haha... I was very amused by the coincidence.