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Posted 20 December 2017 - 08:25 PM

http://www.jim-butch...18-con-schedule

June 5th 2018

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Posted 21 December 2017 - 04:25 AM

The Dresdencrack.... it comes..... IT COMES.
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Posted 21 December 2017 - 05:04 AM

I've been waiting to do a massive chronological reread leading up to PEACE TALKS, but I needed this to come out first.
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Posted 21 December 2017 - 08:19 AM

Where is peace talks! Where is the book that was promised!

The Dresden crack is becoming so dilute in my blood!
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Posted 03 June 2018 - 07:27 AM

So Jim Butcher did an AMA on Reddit.

He has announced that he is aiming to finish Peace Talks by September.

Also he said that the Cinder Spires series could be a trilogy, hexalogy or nonalogy depending on reception and sales.
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Posted 03 June 2018 - 07:39 AM

Saw it. I am actually considering skipping Peace talks until we know what kind of writing schedule Butcher is on. I don't want to read a series where I have to wait 3+ years between the books.
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Posted 03 June 2018 - 02:25 PM

There is no power of gods or men that could keep me from reading Peace Talks.
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Posted 03 June 2018 - 08:26 PM

You're gonna wait the same amount of time regardless.
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Posted 03 June 2018 - 08:30 PM

Cannot wait.
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Posted 04 June 2018 - 03:02 AM

BRIEF CASES, about 24hrs and counting!!!
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Posted 04 June 2018 - 08:04 AM

View PostAndorion, on 03 June 2018 - 07:27 AM, said:

Also he said that the Cinder Spires series could be a trilogy, hexalogy or nonalogy depending on reception and sales.


This annoys me. Not sure how far in advance he had planned Dresden or the furies of calderon (supposedly he wrote this to win a bet so who knows) but id say sales follow a good story. A good story does not follow sales. The idea of changing a trilogy to a nonalogy because the fans will buy it seems greedy rather than a good thing.
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Posted 04 June 2018 - 08:52 AM

View PostCause, on 04 June 2018 - 08:04 AM, said:

View PostAndorion, on 03 June 2018 - 07:27 AM, said:

Also he said that the Cinder Spires series could be a trilogy, hexalogy or nonalogy depending on reception and sales.


This annoys me. Not sure how far in advance he had planned Dresden or the furies of calderon (supposedly he wrote this to win a bet so who knows) but id say sales follow a good story. A good story does not follow sales. The idea of changing a trilogy to a nonalogy because the fans will buy it seems greedy rather than a good thing.


That might just be a publishing decision. Say Butcher has three trilogies set in the same world. The first is a huge hit, his publisher greenlights the second one.
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Posted 04 June 2018 - 10:16 AM

View PostCause, on 04 June 2018 - 08:04 AM, said:

View PostAndorion, on 03 June 2018 - 07:27 AM, said:

Also he said that the Cinder Spires series could be a trilogy, hexalogy or nonalogy depending on reception and sales.


This annoys me. Not sure how far in advance he had planned Dresden or the furies of calderon (supposedly he wrote this to win a bet so who knows) but id say sales follow a good story. A good story does not follow sales. The idea of changing a trilogy to a nonalogy because the fans will buy it seems greedy rather than a good thing.


I take it you've never heard of the Wheel of Time then?
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Posted 04 June 2018 - 12:02 PM

View PostCause, on 21 December 2017 - 08:19 AM, said:

Where is peace talks! Where is the book that was promised!

The Dresden crack is becoming so dilute in my blood!



It's over Cause, Butcher has the high ground.
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Posted 04 June 2018 - 12:23 PM

He says he always had at least 20 novels planned? It was always meant to be a long serialized story. If he turns a trilogy into nine books though just for profit I can think of many examples where it failed.

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Posted 04 June 2018 - 01:42 PM

I went to two different stores to try to see if that "early on the Canadian Shelf" Butcher magic was in evidence....it was not this time. I have to wait till tomorrow like the rest of you plebs people.

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Posted 04 June 2018 - 04:38 PM

I mean, a lot of novel/comic series work that way, with the first book or story arc standing on its own, and letting sales dictate whether the story continues further. (Hell, Stover has another Caine trilogy in the wings, if he could find a publisher to pay for it.)
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Posted 04 June 2018 - 07:43 PM

Who knows, maybe he'll run out of steam.
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Posted 04 June 2018 - 10:11 PM

View PostLuv2B_Sassy, on 04 June 2018 - 07:43 PM, said:

Who knows, maybe he'll run out of steam.


You know, when you hit a bunch of threads with one liners...not all of them land, but I appreciate the effort involved!
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Posted 05 June 2018 - 04:33 AM

Worry is my spirit animal.
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