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Interview with Jim Butcher
October, 2015

Most readers probably know Jim Butcher for his Dresden Files, the bestselling urban fantasy series featuring Chicago-based private investigator and wizard Harry Dresden that is currently 15 novels strong and counting. Others may know him from his Codex Alera saga, an epic fantasy set on the world of Carna chronicling the adventures of a young hero named Tavi. But soon the world will witness Butcher's take on another genre category: steampunk. The Aeronaut's Windlass—the first novel in his Cinder Spires series—is set in a vivid world where humanity has taken to the sky, living in massive Spires to escape the "deadly green hell" below. Chronicling a developing war, The Aeronaut's Windlass is packed with action, grand-scale conspiracies, and plot twists, arguably Butcher's most ambitious—and strongest—work to date. The Missouri-born and -bred writer chatted with interviewer Paul Goat Allen on behalf of Goodreads about the inspiration behind writing a steampunk series, the strange similarities between himself and one of the novel's main characters (airship captain Francis Grimm), and his obvious love of cats.