‘Outlander’ Author Diana Gabaldon Drops an Excerpt From Her New Book — Even Though She Admits She Is Not ‘Actively’ Writing It – Online Community of Writers

Outlander author Diana Gabaldon is busy writing the 10th and final book in her popular, long-running literary series. At the same time, she has other projects in the works — including a prequel about Jamie Fraser's parents and a companion book titled What Frank Knew . Recently, Gabaldon dropped an excerpt from the Frank-focused story. But she insisted that she's not “actively” writing it at the moment. ‘Outlander' author Diana Gabaldon says ‘What Frank Knew' doesn't exist yet In mid-February, Gabaldon took to Facebook to share a “fragment” of her eventual book titled What Frank Knew. She explained to fans that she wasn't actually writing the book, but she did write down an idea. She noted that her “copyright” claim to the passage meant that she had written it down and the rights belong to her. However, it doesn't mean the “eventual book exists yet.” “Just for fun….I'm NOT (repeat, not) actively working on this book yet, but when pieces of something bubble up, I write them down. So this is just a fragment of the eventual book, WHAT FRANK KNEW…,” Gabaldon wrote. Diana Gabaldon drops first excerpt even though she's not ‘actively' writing the book The first excerpt that Gabaldon wrote for What Frank Knew is written in first person from Frank's perspective. It reads: “Never put anything in writing.” That's the first thing the instructor at [ ] said to us. Everyone laughed—including the instructor—as all of us were sitting there, pens in hands poised over our […]