Diana Gabaldon is the New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels – Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, and A Breath of Snow and Ashes (for which she won a Quill Award and the Corine International Book Prize) – and one work of nonfiction, The Outlandish Companion, as well as the bestselling series featuring Lord John Grey, a character she introduced in Voyager. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
When I did my first short-story collection, "Smoke and Mirrors," the reviews, to be honest, were very, very uniform. All of the reviewers said that there were stories that were amazing, world-class, and carried the collection, and then there were stories that were practically embarrassing and I shouldn't have published. Had there been any agreement from reviewer to reviewer on which stories were which, I could have learned something from this.
The three years leading up to the American Revolution are momentous years for the main characters of Diana Gabaldon's novel A Breath of Snow and Ashes, the sixth book in her immensely popular Outlander series. Jamie Fraser and his wife Clare, a time-traveler from the twentieth century, face harrowing new challenges -- and an event that seems pre-destined.
When I did my first short-story collection, "Smoke and Mirrors," the reviews, to be honest, were very, very uniform. All of the reviewers said that there were stories that were amazing, world-class, and carried the collection, and then there were stories that were practically embarrassing and I shouldn't have published. Had there been any agreement from reviewer to reviewer on which stories were which, I could have learned something from this. 
