Last fall at New York Comic Con, the network showed the early production stills and artists’ sketches of the characters to a focus group of 200 Outlander fans. Gabaldon received for Book 8, in 2010.įor Starz, developing a show with a rabid, built-in fan base held obvious appeal, and the network courted Ms. Galen wouldn’t disclose the exact amount of the deal, but said that the novel sold for more than $6 million - more than twice the amount Ms. Gabaldon’s literary agent, Russell Galen, said he waited more than a year to negotiate her new contract so that he could leverage the increased interest from the TV show. Gabaldon recently signed a multimillion-dollar book deal for the ninth novel in the series, with Ballantine Bantam Dell. New readers apparently became hooked: The next three books in the series have also reappeared on best-seller lists. 1 on the best-seller list for the first time, 23 years after it was published. When “Outlander” had its premiere on Starz in August, the first novel hit No. The eight novels, which center on a time-traveling British nurse who falls in love with a Scottish warrior, have more than 25 million copies in print and are published in about 40 countries.īut a TV show can turn a best-selling series into a blockbuster (just ask George R. Diana Gabaldon’s genre-bending series, “Outlander,” was a hit well before there was a TV series based on the books.
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