Outlander author Diana Gabaldon has confessed that she earns more bang for her buck from writing her novels than she does on penning scripts for the show.
The 71-year-old, who wrote the iconic books back in 1991 which inspired the hit STARZ show, took to her Twitter page on to respond to one fan who made the observation that she would be getting paid "handsomely" for her involvement in the script writing of season seven of the show.
Diana in fact said she was "way too busy" to have written the entire script for season seven of the historical romance drama. When asked by fans of her involvement, she tweeted: "I wrote the script for Ep. 714. Consulted on all the rest."
This prompted another fan to speculate that despite her lack of involvement in the most recent series, she would still be getting paid a pretty penny.
"I'm sure you're being paid handsomely," they chimed, to which Diana responded: "Not nearly as much as I get paid for writing books, but every little bit helps..."
Diana is known often for engaging with her fans on social media, particularly on Twitter, and her followers made it no secret how appreciative they were for it.
One wrote: "You are so kind to answer questions from us adoring fans," and the author responded: "It's my pleasure, believe me! I'd spend more time here, but then I'd never get _anything_ done!"
Meanwhile, Outlander fans are eagerly waiting for the dreaded 'droughtlander' to be over once more as the hit show is expected to make its way back onto our TV screens this summer.
Earlier this month the best-selling author confirmed 10,000 new copies of the Outlander books were to be printed as the fanbase continues to grow worldwide.
She said at the time: "Nice bit of news from publisher: '...we will be going back to press on the trade paperback edition of Outlander. This will be our 56th printing, with 10,000 new copies, for a total of 782,964 copies in print. Congratulations!' ('trade paperback' is the large one)."
Outlander season seven is bound to be an unmissable event for fans given its doubled length of the sixth run. Season six only aired eight episodes instead of the original 12 but the seventh has been confirmed to consist of a juicy 16 episodes.
Diana Gabaldon's book series was the start of the beautiful storm, having now sold more than 50 million copies in 114 countries in 38 languages, and the rest, as they say, is eighteenth-century history.
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