A slightly fuzzy picture of Maggie with Diana Gabaldon while the American author was on her recent signing tour of Scotland, promoting An Echo in the Bone, the latest volume in the long-running time-travelling romantic saga of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser, a handsome Highlander to whom a large proportion of the female readers of the world have lost their hearts. Maggie is a big fan in particular of the first three books in the Cross Stitch/Outlander series.
Suite101
Maggie is now writing for the Canadian-based international article website Suite101 mainly on topics of Scottish interest.
Edinburgh Book Festival
Maggie Craig & Bill Campbell of Mainstream Publishing after Maggie's sell-out event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2009.
Photo: Gordon Wright/scottishphotolibrary.net
Met at Culloden: The Man on the Cover!
It's not every day a handsome Jacobite - in his full regimentals - strides up to you and announces: "Hi, Maggie, I'm the man on the cover of your book!"
What a thrill it was to meet Ian Deveney of Inverness at this year's commemoration of the Battle of Culloden. The photograph of him which became the cover of Bare-Arsed Banditti: The Men of the '45 was taken while he was helping recreate the battle for the film which is now shown in the total immersion theatre at the new NTS visitor centre at Culloden and which many visitors find a deeply moving experience.
As a Jacobite, Ian Deveney is an officer in Lord Ogilvy's Regiment. He also runs his own living history company, Battlescar, bringing the '45 and other periods of Scottish history to life for schools, social events, tour groups and corporate clients. More information at www.battlescar.co.uk