Graham McTavish
The eighth and most recent major novel in the ‘Outlander’ series, ‘Written in My Own Heart’s Blood,' was released on June 10, 2014 in the U.S.A. and Canada. The book made its debut as number one on the New York Times bestseller list in the hardcover category and combined e-book and hardcover category! And the book is also a bestseller in Canada.
Diana is serving as a Co-Producer and advisor for the popular Outlander TV series, produced by the Starz network and Tall Ship Productions and distributed by Sony International, which is based on her novels. She has written a script for an episode of the series, also.
Her main current writing project is the ninth major novel in the ‘Outlander’ series, ‘Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone.'
Two, which are nonfiction (well, relatively) works which provide details on the settings, background, characters, research, and writing of the first eight novels in the Outlander series of novels. Gabaldon (it’s pronounced “GAA-bull-dohn”—rhymes with “stone”) has also written several books in a sub-series featuring Lord John Grey (a major minor character from the main series): ‘Lord John and the Private Matter,' L’ord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade’, ‘Lord John and the Hand of Devils,' and ‘The Scottish Prisoner.'
Returning to her comic-book roots, she has also written a graphic novel titled ‘The Exile’ (set within the ‘Outlander’ universe and featuring the main characters from ‘Outlander’), but told from the viewpoint of Jamie Fraser and his godfather, Murtagh. The graphic novel is illustrated by Hoang Nguyen, and published by Del-Rey.
Graham McTavish is a Scottish actor and author. He is known for his roles as Dawlin in The Hobbit, Vlad Dracula Tepes in the Netflix-animated series, Castlevania, the Saint of Kills in the AMC series, The Preacher, Sigismund Dijkstra in the Netflix show, The Witcher and Dougal MacKenzie in the Starz hit series, Outlander. McTavish is also known for his roles in the video game franchise, Uncharted as the main antagonist Zoran.
In 2020, McTavish and Outlander co-star Sam Heughan co-wrote Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other, which hit No. 1 on the New York Times' Best Seller Lists for hardcover nonfiction and for combined print and e-book nonfiction.
In January 2023, McTavish married Garance Doré, at Borthwick Castle in Scotland.
Dr. Gabaldon holds three degrees in science: Zoology, Marine Biology, and a Ph.D. in Quantitative Behavioral Ecology, (plus an honorary degree as Doctor of Humane Letters, which entitles her to be “Diana Gabaldon, Ph.D., D.H.L.” She supposes this is better than “Diana Gabaldon, Phd.X,”) and spent a dozen years as a university professor with an expertise in scientific computation before beginning to write fiction. She has written scientific articles and textbooks, worked as a contributing editor on the MacMillan ‘Encyclopedia of Computers,' founded the scientific-computation journal ‘Science Software Quarterly,' and has written numerous comic-book scripts for Walt Disney. None of this has anything whatever to do with her novels, but there it is.
Diana and her husband, Douglas Watkins, have three adult children, two grandchildren, and live mostly in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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