Check Out the 'Outlander' Book 10 Excerpt Diana Gabaldon Just Tweeted Out

Outlander fans were ecstatic over the Nov. 23, 2021 release of Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone, the ninth book in the series of epic, time-traveling romantic novels on which the hit STARZ series of the same name is based. After all, it had been seven long years (another Droughtlander in its own right!) since bestselling author Diana Gabaldon had released Written in My Own Heart’s Blood, the eighth book in the saga of Jamie and Claire Fraser.

The even better news now that Outlander Book 9 is out? It looks like fans won’t have to wait as long for Book 10, as Gabaldon has revealed that she’s hard at work on it. In fact, she’s already been sharing excerpts online! Keep reading to find out everything we know about Diana Gabaldon’s upcoming 10th book in the Outlander series.

When is Outlander book 10 coming out?

While promoting Bees, Gabaldon told Town & Country that she’s already started writing the sequel.

“On top of the pile would be the beginnings of book 10,” she said in December 2021. “I have started writing that, but I’m just poking away at it little by little, because there’s so much interference from the book launch stuff going on that I can’t work with my usual focus… I am working on book 10 though. It’s just beginning to bubble, like the tar pits at La Brea, these rising bubbles and there’s a lot of bones underneath.”

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For the third year in a row, Gabaldon began the New Year by posting an excerpt from her upcoming tenth book.

“Have you got any resolutions for this year? Mine is to bloody STAY HOME and not let anyone (other than family) drag me off into the far blue yonder. (I swear, 2024 nearly killed me.)

I sat down at my computer this afternoon, determined to Write Something, as a gesture to the New Year. I have NO idea where this came from, but here it is…

[Excerpt from BOOK TEN (Untitled) (but I will tell you the title sometime this year), Copyright 2025 Diana Gabaldon]

“You love James Fraser, don’t you?” Minnie asked suddenly.

John shrugged, though not with indifference.

“Everyone who knows him loves him,” he said. “Except the people who hate him and/or want him dead, of course.”

Minnie gave him a look, and sniffed, seeing the twitch at the corner of his mouth.

“And/or, you say, Lord Ambiguous. So, there are people who hate him and therefore want him dead? Or are there people who hate him but don’t want him dead, or those who want him dead, but without any sense of personal animus?”

“I don’t know how you expect me to conduct a conversation—with you–without at least an occasional resort to ambiguity,” he retorted. “As for animus, the man’s a soldier, and we are at war. Thus, there are hundreds—if not thousands—of men who sincerely want him dead, but who have no idea who he is, let alone approve or deprecate his character.”

She made a sound that wasn’t a laugh, but acknowledged his point.

“And ambiguity is so useful, is it not?” she said. “For subterfuge and distraction, if not outright prevarication.”

“Prevarication, my left buttock,” he said. “I haven’t told you a single untruth. Today,” he added, in the interests of exactness.

“_You_ don’t hate him, I take it?”

There was a brief silence, broken by the murmur of conversation among the sailors mending sails on the after-deck.

“I tried,” he said.

“Me, too,” she said, fixing her eyes on the foaming green wake that fantailed behind them. “But only for a few minutes, after discovering that he had a wife. I mean, what would be the point?”

“I suppose this was before you met Hal?” he asked, amused.

“Well, yes. Though I will admit that Mr. Fraser’s admirable qualities continued to impress me, on the rare occasions when I encountered him. Have you ever met his wife?” she asked.

He took a deep breath, feeling the pull of his waistcoat buttons. Too little exercise.

“I married her,” he said.

On Jan. 2, 2022, Gabaldon rang in the new year by tweeting out an excerpt from Book 10! You can read it at the link below, and believe it or not, it’s about… ducks?

Gabaldon did it again on Feb. 10, sharing yet another Book 10 excerpt.

You won’t want to miss Gabaldon’s latest excerpt from Book 10, which she shared on Oct. 31, where William comes to ask Jamie to help him rescue Lord John from the clutches of Ezekiel Richardson, who is holding Lord John prisoner aboard a ship. Another father-son moment! The link is below.

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What is the name of Outlander book 10?

Gabaldon has yet to reveal a name for the as-yet-untitled tenth book in her Outlander series, but she promises it is coming in 2025.

Will Jamie die in Outlander book 10?

For many years, Gabaldon has said that she would wrap up the Jamie/Claire saga in book 10, but during an interview for the release of Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, she backtracked a little and dropped this bombshell: “It depends on Jamie and Claire. If they’re not ready to die yet, I guess I will have to go on.”

There has long been speculation that Jamie would die in book 10. As fans of both the books and the TV series will remember, there was a key moment—which appeared in both the first book and in the first episode of the Starz series—when Jamie’s ghost appeared in Inverness outside the inn where Claire and Frank Randall were staying at the end of World War II. Gabaldon has always made it clear that it is Jamie’s ghost, but what she hasn’t done is share the information as to what it really means—that is, until Sam Heughan was cast in the role of Jamie Fraser. He is the only one to whom she has revealed what that scene means; not even her husband or her agent knows!

How old will Jamie and Claire be in Outlander book 10?

As the series progresses, Jamie and Claire are aging appropriately, which should put them in their 60s in the tenth book. Even so, our time-traveling couple remain the emotional core of the story even as other characters who are in Jamie and Claire’s orbit are featured.

Diana explained to Parade in an exclusive interview why it takes her so long to write the novels. “One reason it takes me so long to write these books is that I need to age along with them,” she explained. “I’ll be 70 in January, and I’m a different person than I was at 32 when I started writing Outlander. Your perceptions and experiences change and deepen as you get older. And when you’re telling the story of a long-term marriage, this makes a difference.”

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Who will return in Outlander book 10?

Here are the characters that we can confirm as still alive: Jamie Fraser, Claire Randall Fraser, Briana Randall MacKenzie, Roger MacKenzie, Young Ian, Lord John.

Does Diana Gabaldon know how Outlander will end?

She does and has known for 20 years, but of course, she’s not telling. “It was about 20 years ago that I saw the ending,” she’s previously explained. “I got up in the middle of the night and wrote it down with tears rolling down my face.”

Will there be more Outlander spinoff novels?

Yes! Gabaldon is working on a prequel novel about Jamie’s parents, and a book about Master Raymond, a time-traveler who Claire met in Paris in Dragonfly in Amber at the apothecary shop.

The story of Jamie’s parents, Brian Fraser and Ellen Mackenzie, may not bet out yet in novel form, but it is an upcoming STARZ series, Outlander Blood of My Blood, which has already filmed its first season in Scotland and is waiting for an airdate.

The book on Master Raymond is on the back burner for now. In the meantime, Outlander Season 6 will premiere March 6, 2022 on STARZ.

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