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Īs of 2021, the Outlander series comprises nine published novels. When her second book was finished, Gabaldon resigned her faculty position at Arizona State University to become a full-time author. According to Gabaldon, her British publishers liked the title Cross Stitch, a play on "a stitch in time" however, the American publisher said it "sounded too much like embroidery" and wanted a more "adventurous" title. publishers changed the first book's title to Outlander, but the title remained unchanged in the U.K.

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Her first book deal was for a trilogy, the first novel plus two then-unwritten sequels. Knowlton represented her based on an unfinished first novel, tentatively titled Cross Stitch. Stith introduced her to literary agent Perry Knowlton. Later, Gabaldon posted a short excerpt of her novel on the CompuServe Literary Forum, where author John E. Writing the novel at a time "when the World Wide Web didn't exist", she did her research "the old-fashioned way, by herself, through books." To explain the character's modern behavior and attitudes, Gabaldon chose to use time travel. Gabaldon decided to have "an Englishwoman to play off all these kilted Scotsmen", but her female character "took over the story and began telling it herself, making smart-ass modern remarks about everything." One of the Doctor's companions was a Scot from around 1745, a young man about 17 years old named Jamie McCrimmon, who provided the initial inspiration for her main male character, James Fraser, and for her novel's mid-18th century Scotland setting. Gabaldon happened to see a rerun episode of the Doctor Who science fiction TV series titled " The War Games". As a research professor, she decided that a historical novel would be easiest to research and write, but she had no background in history and initially no particular time period in mind. In 1988, Gabaldon decided to write a novel for "practice, just to learn how", and with no intention to show it to anyone. Gabaldon signing books at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon She was a professor with an expertise in scientific computation at ASU for 12 years before leaving to write full-time.

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During the mid-1980s, Gabaldon wrote software reviews and technical articles for computer publications, as well as popular-science articles and Disney comics.

Gabaldon was the founding editor of Science Software Quarterly in 1984 while employed at the Center for Environmental Studies at Arizona State University. She earned a bachelor of science in zoology from Northern Arizona University, 1970–1973 a master of science in marine biology from the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1973–1975 and a PhD in behavioral ecology from Northern Arizona University, 1975–1978.

Her father was of Mexican ancestry, and her mother was of English descent. Gabaldon was born on January 11, 1952, in Williams, Arizona, United States, the daughter of Jacqueline Sykes and Tony Gabaldon (1931–1998), an Arizona state senator from Flagstaff for sixteen years and later a supervisor of Coconino County. A television adaptation of the Outlander novels premiered on Starz in 2014. Her books merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction, romance, mystery, adventure and science fiction/ fantasy. Gabaldon ( / ˈ ɡ æ b əl d oʊ n/ born January 11, 1952) is an American author, known for the Outlander series of novels.