Four percent have never read the book and just want it because it’s a bestseller. “The thing about that is 95% of people who approach you have never made a movie,” she explains. Gabaldon says some months she’d be approached two or three times. It’s little wonder why for years producers have been salivating over the idea of translating Outlander to the big (or small) screen. The results of this could be long-winded, and boring, and so forth, but in fact if it’s done with artistry the effect is to pull people into the page.” “I have a strong sense of detailed observation, you might say, and a strong need to make things clear, which leads me to write in a detailed way. Written In My Own Heart’s Blood, which clocks in at 825 pages, is only the third-longest entry in a series of books that could double as bricks, were you building a house. “I don’t like to do things that I’ve done before, so every book is unique in structure, approach, voice, theme, et cetera,” she says. As complex as her previous books might have been – her website features a handy guide explaining the series’ chronology so as to not overwhelm new readers – her latest is “probably the most technically ambitious thing I’ve ever done,” she says, weaving eight separate storylines into one novel – or, as her editor called it after reading the manuscript, “the literary equivalent of juggling half-a-dozen chainsaws.” What Gabaldon is is an author who found a formula that takes myriad genres – historical fiction, adventure, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and romance – and blends them into one (well, eight) hard-to-resist novels. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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