The Jim Butcher Files: Dresden . Codex Alera . Cinder Spires & More

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

I miss reading so much!!!! Work has had me so busy. Plus, I'm waiting to hear back from the local state college on my transcripts. It's going to be weird being a student teaching students.
On a positive note: I'll either get to keep my current teaching assignment for a while, or they'll find a permanent teacher and I'll be able to dedicate more time to my going to school (if I can get off my ass and complete my FASFA).

Just got off my ass! lol. So, I should know where I stand, both as far as credits and finances, in about a week!

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

I miss reading so much!!!! Work has had me so busy. Plus, I'm waiting to hear back from the local state college on my transcripts. It's going to be weird being a student teaching students.
On a positive note: I'll either get to keep my current teaching assignment for a while, or they'll find a permanent teacher and I'll be able to dedicate more time to my going to school (if I can get off my ass and complete my FASFA).

Just got off my ass! lol. So, I should know where I stand, as far as credits and finances, in about a week!

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

Just got off my ass! lol. So, I should know where I stand, both as far as credits and finances, in about a week!

We will keep our fingers crossed!

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

We will keep our fingers crossed!

Thank you!

[alansplace]

Aeronaut’s Windlass a Bestseller! Plus Status Update.

Great news! The Aeronaut’s Windlass debuted at #5 on the New York Times Fiction Bestseller List and #7 on USA Today! Congrats to Jim. If you haven’t gotten your copy yet, snag one in Hardcover, Kindle, or Audio from our store!

Also, we’re thrilled to announce that Jim has agreed to a Virtual Signing for Priscilla Spencer’s Cinder Spires map posters! A Virtual Signing is essentially a custom pre-order: You place your order, indicating who you want the poster(s) personalized to (like “To Melissa”), then in early December, Jim and Priscilla will sign all the posters at once, and she’ll stick them in the mail. Just in time for the December holidays! All Virtual Signing orders must be placed by December 1st. You can also purchase signed posters of the Codex Alera map, with no preorder necessary.

With the holidays coming up, here’s a list of what Jim’s been up to lately, and what we can expect looking forward.

RECENT RELEASES

(10/15/15) Down Town graphic novel
(9/29/15) Cinder Spires #1: The Aeronaut’s Windlass
(7/09/15) Dresden Files Graphic Novel Omnibus
(6/30/15) Working for Bigfoot illustrated mini-anthology
(6/01/15) The Paranet Papers RPG
(4/10/15) Subterranean Press’ special edition of Proven Guilty
(11/11/14) War Cry graphic novel

RECENT MERCHANDISE

Limited Edition Dresden Files Print by Tyler Walpole
Cinder Spires Map Posters from Priscilla Spencer
Badali Jewelry “Winter Knight” Earrings
“Polka Will Never Die” shirts from Worldbuilders
More merch here!

UPCOMING RELEASES

(12/01/15) “Jury Duty” short story, Unbound anthology
(2/XX/16) Subterranean Press’ special edition of White Night
(est. 10/XX/16) “Cold Case” short story, Shadowed Souls anthology

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Novels:

(TBA) Dresden Files #16: Peace Talks
(TBA) Cinder Spires #2: The Olympian Affair
(TBA) Dresden Files #17: Mirror Mirror

Short Stories:

(TBA) “Day One” — Butters’ first day on his new job
(TBA) Brief Cases — Short story anthology

Comics:

Jim is working on outlines for two original Dresden Files comics series. One will pit Harry against Puck, who will be depicted as a Joker-esque dark faerie: “Terrible. And fun.” In the other, Inari Raith and her friends from “Blood Rites” are threatened, and Lara hires Harry to fix the problem to preserve her grip on the White Court.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Jim has no more appearances in 2015. He has a book to write! As for 2016, only one event has been announced so far: Houston Comicpalooza (June 17-19). Of course, there will be many more to come! Keep an eye on the forum’s Calendar Event Discussion section for further developments.

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by alansplace

It is about time.

[red_phoenix]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

It is about time.

Couldn't agree more.

[eschwartz]

And with that in mind, a countdown:

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Peace Talks release date countdown:

199 DAYS!

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Still a little ways to go I'm afraid.

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

And with that in mind, a countdown:

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Peace Talks release date countdown:

199 DAYS!

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Still a little ways to go I'm afraid.

I have a great idea to cut the numbers down. How about switching to weekly - no more 3 digit countdown. Yay!!!

[eschwartz]

Actually, I want to embed a javascript countdown timer that shows seconds but you can't have everything...

[alansplace]

Quoted from Galleywampus

NEW DRESDEN INFO!

1) “Cold Case” is a Molly novella, and details her first job as the Winter Lady. It’s a Molly/Ramirez team-up. It’s in Shadowed Souls, an anthology he edited. This might be the new name for Fierce. It’s a novella, woo hoo! The entire novella was written to the song “Gonna Make You Sweat”, and that will be funnier when we read it.

2) Dresden’s first day on “Jury Duty” will be published in Shawn Speakman’s anthology, Unbound.

3) Butters’s first mission as a Knight is being written right at this moment. The way Butters gets a call to action is he sees exclamation points over someone’s head. He doesn’t get a still small voice, he gets WOW.

4) The romance between Murphy and Harry was pretty inevitable from the first moment he tried to annoy her by opening the door for her. He never wanted to plan out the romance. He wanted the characters to grow into whatever was going to happen. Like, he didn’t know Susan was going to die awfully until he was writing it.

5) He sent chapter 14 of Skin Game to his beta readers, and his only feedback was gifs of people throwing over tables.

6) “If you were weird enough, you could get magic to do some really weird things.” One of the main duties of the Council is to make sure wizards don’t do crazy stuff — like take out ads in the Yellow Pages.

7) MOST of the Knights of the Cross pick up the Sword for a day, then put it down. There are a lot of Knights who died, also, doing the right thing. It’s meant to be a sacrifice, and some laid their life down.

8) I don’t understand why people are so skeptical that he planned this out — it’s obvious that he knows the major landmarks.

9) Mab was not the first Mab. Mab was the Winter Lady. Lea was her handmaiden, so when Mab got a power boost, so did Lea. The first Winter Queen died the last time things really went to hell in the Wizarding world. Just like they’re about to now. (I wonder who Molly’s handmaiden will be…?)

10) A funny guy stood up and said he’d tweeted Butcher after he finished the second Alera book, asking why he wrote the way he did, and Butcher tweeted back: “I need money, I need you now.”

11) Loki is not in Demonreach. There are no snakes dripping venom there, and Norse gods are literal. Several of the gods are pro wrestlers because you get much more worship as WWE than you do as a Greek god. This will be the subject of book 18, which I hope will be called Cut Man.

12) Lea will have a big part in Peace Talks.

13) Bob is sort of a mirror to whomever is holding him. The Sword will be way easier to misuse; it has less of an affect on regular human beings. It will be hell on wheels against the truly evil.

14) He’s writing the next book right now: “Poor Murphy.” (Yay!)

15) Basically, we’re spending the worst weekend of his year with Harry Dresden. He will be writing more after Mirror Mirror, when he establishes the parallel realities, and how much trouble he can get into with them.

16) He will not delve too deeply into the Sidhe. They were created by certain agents who felt they did not have enough influence on the mortal world.

17) Bob was originally created by Etienne the Enchancer. He was born in more or less the same way that the new spirit baby (her name is Bonnie), but a different agent. Athena was born in the same way. Bonnie has a lot of knowledge but little experience. Like, she’s realized that pancakes are inanimate, and that’s big for her.

[AlbertaCowboy]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Quoted from Galleywampus

There is nothing in the above post that I don't like.

(I see Butters' exclamation points above people's heads accompanied by the sound from Metal Gear Solid, not WOW, myself, but, I love that!)

[FizzyWater]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Quoted from Galleywampus

Butcher has said multiple times he wrote Storm Front to prove to his writing teacher that she was wrong about how to write a popular novel.

I don't personally believe he had it all planned out from day 1. Once he saw he was popular, he might have then mapped everything out and used bits and pieces from the first book or two to make it all seem intentional...but I really doubt it's been from day 1.

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by FizzyWater

Butcher has said multiple times he wrote Storm Front to prove to his writing teacher that she was wrong about how to write a popular novel.

I don't personally believe he had it all planned out from day 1. Once he saw he was popular, he might have then mapped everything out and used bits and pieces from the first book or two to make it all seem intentional...but I really doubt it's been from day 1.

No not from day 1. He wrote a few chapters of Storm Front and his teacher said she wanted an outline of the rest. She meant rest of the book, Jim mistook it for the rest of the series, which he showed her a week later after he plotted it ALL out.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

No not from day 1. He wrote a few chapters of Storm Front and his teacher said she wanted an outline of the rest. She meant rest of the book, Jim mistook it for the rest of the series, which he showed her a week later after he plotted it ALL out.

, well related Duckie!