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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
I don't Tweet and spend only enough time on Facebook to see how my out-of-town friends and family are.
For those of you who are more involved in following all the various social media Butcher has...can you tell me - did he always intend the series to go the way it is?
I remember when it came out I thought it would be more episodic. Sort of like a Police Procedural, but set in world with magic. I actually got frustrated when he started going into the politics of the wizard council and the vampire courts...and especially the Fae world (which seemed too close to "regular" fantasy for my tastes).
I don't remember if they came out at the same time, but I remember thinking the same thing of Laurell K Hamilton's Merry Gentry series - the first couple of books seemed to be mostly mysteries (with the overarcing story of her issue with her aunt).
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Jim wrote Storm Front as an assignment when he was in a College Writing Program (after getting his undergraduate degree). He submitted several of the initial chapters of the book and was told by his professor that it was of sellable quality to a publisher. He finished the book and also made an outline of a planned series of 20 books to be ended by an additional 3 books (a trilogy of winding up stuff) and submitted it as well as the initial book. He says that he's still following that outline.
