So this particular mini-bibliography is a snapshot of the references that I think might be especially useful in the writing of Book Nine. Some of them will be and some of them won’t; it’s just a glimpse of how my mind is working with this book at the moment (the moment being now, June 2015).
All right, LibraryThing. This is easy: go to www.librarything.com. You can use the Search box in the upper right corner of the page to look for listings. Typing Gabaldon will show you an ungodly number of books, including those I’ve entered in the system and those that anyone else has entered with my name mentioned in the listing. For a finer-grained search, type https://www.librarything.com/catalog/diana.gabaldon/yourlibrary. This will show you my own “library,” or collection, and will let you scroll through the site, look at all the books that are listed, and sort the library by the top headings: title, author, date (publication date, that is), date entered in the system, etc. Using various keywords like herbal, medicine, battle, and so on should help you produce specialized listings that might be helpful in your own research or reading. Have fun!
BIBLIOGRAPHY—THE CORE SHELVES
Austin, Allan D. African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles. New York and London: Routledge, 1997.
Bass, Robert D. The Green Dragoon. Orangeburg, S.C.: Sandlapper Publishing, 1973.
Calloway, Colin G. White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Cameron, Christian. Washington and Caesar. New York: Bantam Dell, 2004.
Cook, Don. The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760–1785. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996.
Borick, Carl P. A Gallant Defense: the Siege of Charleston, 1780. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
Buchanan, John. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas. New York: Wiley, 1997.
Diouf, Sylviane A. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. New York and London: New York University Press, 1998.
Duffy, Christopher. The Military Experience in the Age of Reason, 1715–1789. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1987.
Dunkerly, Robert M. The Battle of Kings Mountain: Eyewitness Accounts. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2007.
Endelman, Todd M. The Jews of Georgian England, 1714–1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
Garfield, Simon. Just My Type. New York: Gotham Books, 2011.
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Morgan, Robert. Boone: A Biography. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.
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Photo Insert
Castle Leod
(seat of Clan MacKenzie)
EARL OF CROMARTIE
Some of the food for the Castle Leoch feast is fake…
DIANA GABALDON
…and some of it is fresh! Three haggises, hot out of the oven, produced by the kitchen section of the props department.
DIANA GABALDON
Me at Doune Castle
JENNIFER WATKINS
Me with standing stones on set
DOUG WATKINS
Cast dining area on set
DIANA GABALDON
Mr. and Mrs. MacTavish (me and Ron Moore)
(Yes, it’s a wig.)
DOUG WATKINS
Pocket Jamie helps me sign four thousand first-edition hardcover copies of
Written in My Own Heart’s Blood.
DIANA GABALDON
This book is dedicated to
Ronald D. Moore
Maril Davis
Terry Dresbach
Sam Heughan
Caitriona Balfe
Tobias Menzies
Ira Steven Behr
Anne Kenney
Matthew B. Roberts
Toni Graphia
And the rest of the cast and crew of the Outlander television production—my companions on the newest phase of this outlandish journey.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author would like to gratefully acknowledge the immense help (to say nothing of patience, grit, and sheer endurance) of
The Contributors
…Terry Dresbach, who kindly lent me several of her brilliant blog entries and sketches regarding her work as head of costume on the Outlander TV show.
…Dr. Claire MacKay, herbalist and consultant to the TV show, for her excellent paper on historical Highland herbal medicine.
…Bear McCreary, composer for the TV show,
for his delightful and insightful essay on the philosophy and passion of creating music with bagpipes.
…Àdhamh Ó Broin, Gaelic consultant and tutor to the show, for his witty and erudite “Gaelic Glossary,” which covers all the Gaelic in all eight of the so-far-published books of the main Outlander series.
…Susan Pittman-Butler, who compiled the entire mind-boggling “Cast of Characters” section—a work of superhuman endurance and thoroughness.
…Theresa Carle-Sanders, author of the popular Outlander Kitchen website (and soon-to-be cookbook), for her entertaining essay on eighteenth-century Scottish cookery.
…Grant O’Rourke, for his brilliant Super Rupert cartoon.
…and Barbara Schnell (my invaluable German translator), who contributed a number of her beautiful photos of Scotland to the illustrations in this book.
The Readers
…Huge thanks to all of the people who, over the last fifteen years, have not only kept asking for another Companion, but have also suggested a lot of things they’d like to see in it, many of them going so far as to contribute such things. In particular—
…The Cadre of Genealogical Nitpickers: Sandy Parker, Vicki Pack, Mandy Tidwell, and Rita Meistrell, who are responsible for the high degree of accuracy in the beautiful family tree.
…Willemina, who not only produced the Grey Family Tree, but also provided a helpful list of errors in the Kindle editions of the books.
…Robert Wealleans, for a list of Kindle errors.
…Karen Henry, Chief of Eyeball-Numbing Nitpickery, who kindly read all of the manuscript pieces for this book, with the exception of the “Cast of Characters” (only Kathy the copy editor had the guts to deal with that one). Her catches and suggestions saved me innumerable hours in the later phases of copyediting and proofreading.
…Sandy the archivist, Jari Backman, and several other helpful people who keep track of things that I post, and can usually locate any message or excerpt needed.
The Production Team
…Like Abou ben Adhem, Kathy Lord’s name leads all the rest. I take nothing away from the many other wonderful and hardworking people on the Penguin Random House1 production team by praising Kathy—the copy editor on this, as on many of my previous books—for her limitless knowledge, persistence, artistry, goodwill…and did I mention persistence? A good copy editor is prized above rubies, and Kathy is stainless steel and iridium, diamonds and platinum.
…Also let us celebrate the gloriousness of Virginia Norey’s (aka the Book Goddess) design. While the hundreds of moving parts in a book like this are a major challenge to everybody involved, they also offer Virginia full scope for the exercise of her genius.
…And, of course, editors Jennifer Hershey and Anne Speyer for their endless patience, tact, and persistence (if I seem to keep mentioning persistence, it’s because that’s the sine qua non in getting one of my books to press).
…And the many, many other unsung heroes of production, art, publicity, and marketing, who have so much to do with the quality and success of my books.
My Thanks Also To…
…The several kind medical professionals who have helped me over the years with advice regarding the various medical and surgical scenes in the books. Some of these good people are nameless (having been recruited by other physician friends of mine, and having then modestly declined to be specifically acknowledged) and some I have undoubtedly forgotten. But special thanks to Dr. Gary Hoff, Dr. Amarilis Iscold, and Dr. Merih O’Donaghue, and to Sarah Meyer, midwife (aka Metpatpetet).
…Assorted military personnel, male and female, for their deeply felt responses to various elements of the books, and their contributions to the depictions of people in combat and those whose job it is to risk their lives in the protection of others.
…The personal testimony, given to me over the last twenty years, of people who have suffered assault in various forms, and their stories of heroism and healing.
…The kind assistance of Tamara Burke, Beth and Matthew Shope, and Jo Bourne, in explaining the beliefs and historical background of the Society of Friends.
…The Gaelic experts: Ian MacKinnon Taylor, Catherine MacGregor, Catherine-Ann MacPhee, Àdhamh Ó Broin, and Michael Newton, who have been of inestimable help over the years, both in providing translation and commentary on this beautiful language.
…Philippe Safavi, Valeria Galassi, and Barbara Schnell (respectively, my French, Italian, and German translators), for their sensitive and faithful translations. My thanks also to all the other translators that I haven’t met personally.
…And as always: the many inhabitants of the Compuserve Books and Writers Community who have been my constant companions on this journey since I stumbled into the place in 1985. Thank you for the wonderful discussions, thought-provoking questions, bizarre suggestions, and weird bits of random information that have added so much to my books over the years!
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1 Though, like every other author contracted to this publishing house, I think it should have been Random Penguin. Just the thought of random penguins lends cheer to the most ordinary of days.
BY DIANA GABALDON
(in chronological order)
OUTLANDER
DRAGONFLY IN AMBER
VOYAGER
DRUMS OF AUTUMN
THE FIERY CROSS
A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES
AN ECHO IN THE BONE
WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART’S BLOOD
THE OUTLANDISH COMPANION (nonfiction)
THE OUTLANDISH COMPANION, VOLUME TWO (nonfiction)
THE EXILE (GRAPHIC NOVEL)
(in chronological order)
LORD JOHN AND THE HELLFIRE CLUB (novella)
LORD JOHN AND THE PRIVATE MATTER
LORD JOHN AND THE SUCCUBUS (novella)
LORD JOHN AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLADE
LORD JOHN AND THE HAUNTED SOLDIER (novella)
THE CUSTOM OF THE ARMY (novella)
LORD JOHN AND THE HAND OF DEVILS (collected novellas)
THE SCOTTISH PRISONER
A PLAGUE OF ZOMBIES (novella)
Other Outlander-related novellas
A LEAF ON THE WIND OF ALL HALLOWS
THE SPACE BETWEEN
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Diana Gabaldon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels—Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (for which she won a Quill Award and the Corine International Book Prize), An Echo in the Bone, and Written in My Own Heart’s Blood—as well as the related Lord John Grey books Lord John and the Private Matter, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Lord John and the Hand of Devils, and The Scottish Prisoner; the nonfiction The Outlandish Companion and The Outlandish Companion Volume Two; and the Outlander graphic novel The Exile. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband.
dianagabaldon.com
Facebook.com/AuthorDianaGabaldon
@Writer_DG
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