Outlander Short Fiction
Songs of Love and Death
“A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows” is a short story (no, really. It is. Honest! It’s 16,500 words, about), first published in November of 2010 in the anthology SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH: ALL-ORIGINAL TALES OF STAR-CROSSED LOVE (edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois). It tells the WWII story of Roger MacKenzie’s parents, Jerry and Dolly — and provides and fills in the answer to one of the small mysteries opened in AN ECHO IN THE BONE. (Though as one astute observer commented, “I bet you filled it in with dirt you dug from another hole!”) Other Formats For “A Leaf…” “A Leaf On The Wind of All Hallows” has been released as a stand-alone e-book in December, 2012. More information. This story was also included in A TRAIL OF FIRE, an anthology of four Outlander tales. More information. My Short Fiction For more information on the availability of my short fiction, see my blog from September 4, 2012. More About SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH From the [...]
A Trail of Fire (Four Outlander Tales)
Trails of tracer bullets, and the fiery trail of a wounded Spitfire falling out of the sky. The burning of plantations in a Jamaican night, in a trail leading down from the mountains, straight toward Kingstown. The trail blazed by night by the handful of heroic Highlanders who fought their way straight up a vertical cliff to stand on the Plains of Abraham in a fiery dawn. And the trail of a torch burning green, through the eerie surrounds of a Parisian cemetery, down into the mysteries of the earth. Four tales from Diana Gabaldon are included in A TRAIL OF FIRE, each set in a different time and place — from Paris before the Revolution to London during the Blitz, from the West Indies in the grip of slavery to Quebec at the height of the French and Indian War — and yet each one a fiery thread in the warp and weft of the epic story that began in Scotland in 1945, when Claire Randall first touched a [...]
Virgins
“Virgins” is a novella, part of the Outlander series. The story is set in 1740, in France, in which Jamie Fraser (aged nineteen) and his friend Ian Murray (aged twenty) become young mercenaries. [To be published in the anthology Dangerous Women, eds. George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. When? Whenever George gets around to finishing his story for this anthology. -DG] For more information on how this story fits into the Outlander series, see the Chronology of the Outlander Series. Last update: January 5, 2012
A Leaf On The Wind Of All Hallows
“A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows” is a short story (no, really. It is. Honest! It’s 16,500 words, about). It tells the WWII story of Roger MacKenzie’s parents, Jerry and Dolly — and provides and fills in the answer to one of the small mysteries opened in AN ECHO IN THE BONE. (Though as one astute observer commented, “I bet you filled it in with dirt you dug from another hole!”) This story was released as a standalone ebook in formats for iPad, iPod, iBooks, iPhone, Kindle, and Nook on December 3, 2012. A narrated version is also available. Please use the pull-down menus at left to order. Songs of Love and Death Anthology “A Leaf…” was first published in November of 2010 in the anthology SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH: ALL-ORIGINAL TALES OF STAR-CROSSED LOVE (edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois). This page was last updated on April 18, 2013.
The Space Between
“The Space Between” is a novella that will be published in an anthology titled THE MAD SCIENTIST’S GUIDE TO WORLD DOMINATION, edited by John Joseph Adams. This is one of the “orts”—the short stories and novellas that come from (and are part of) the overall OUTLANDER series. This novella deals with Joan MacKenzie (Laoghaire MacKenzie’s daughter by an earlier marriage, and Jamie Fraser’s step-daughter) and with Michael Murray (son of Ian and Jenny Fraser Murray, elder brother to Young Ian Murray), in which Michael, a young and newly-widowed wine-merchant, takes on the responsibility of seeing Joan safely to the convent where she proposes to take up her vocation as a nun. Things Happen—not least, a growing bond between two displaced people in search of home and safety. This anthology is scheduled for release in February, 2013.
