[Abyss]

Saw this elseforum re delays in next Dresdencrack and Spires books....

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He had a tumultuous few years; Divorce (amicable as I understand but, but still), new relationship/marriage, and then wanted to move to his new wife’s state but had a house custom built, and got screwed by the contractor(s) for a long time...and had to live in his wife’s tiny apartment in the meanwhile. He’s had other things on his plate, so it’s easy to understand how both Peace Talks AND The Olympian Affair got backburnered by real life.

[QuickTidal]

From reddit, a more in depth explanation. Post is from this past April.

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No need to speculate Jim is very open about what happened. Basically life got in the way. Since Skin Game was published he got divorced, moved, had dental emergencies, had delays building his new house, moved in with his fiance. Basically the last few years have been really rough, and he hasn't had a good environment for writing... but in that time he's still managed to publish Aeronaut's Windlass, the first book in a whole new series he had to plan out, and complete the stories in Brief Cases, and write several of the Dresden Files comic books. A lot of writers out there are slower than Jim is at his lowest productivity.
Recently he's been trying to get back on track. About 6 weeks ago at ECCC he said he has 6ish weeks of writing left on Peace Talks, finishing sometime end of April. So, unless there have been additional delays he should be done sometime soon. After that the book is off to the publishers, and it depends on their schedule but he estimates release in September to November.
After this he's going to try to get back to his usual two books a year pace.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 09 October 2018 - 03:14 PM

[Cause]

who would divorce the source of the Dresden crack?

[Abyss]

Goodkind fan, obvs.

[Slow Ben]

As much as i need the crack, i'd rather have unrefined quality crack as opposed to rushed crack.

[Abyss]

Have to agree. Considering his usual output, and the quality of the product, Butcher gets all the leeway from me for his stuff.




...stupid convulsions...

[Slow Ben]

I'll just be over here in the corner.....shaking uncontrollably.

[Dolmen 2.0]

QuickTidal, on 09 October 2018 - 03:13 PM, said:

From reddit, a more in depth explanation. Post is from this past April.

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No need to speculate Jim is very open about what happened. Basically life got in the way. Since Skin Game was published he got divorced, moved, had dental emergencies, had delays building his new house, moved in with his fiance. Basically the last few years have been really rough, and he hasn't had a good environment for writing... but in that time he's still managed to publish Aeronaut's Windlass, the first book in a whole new series he had to plan out, and complete the stories in Brief Cases, and write several of the Dresden Files comic books. A lot of writers out there are slower than Jim is at his lowest productivity.
Recently he's been trying to get back on track. About 6 weeks ago at ECCC he said he has 6ish weeks of writing left on Peace Talks, finishing sometime end of April. So, unless there have been additional delays he should be done sometime soon. After that the book is off to the publishers, and it depends on their schedule but he estimates release in September to November.
After this he's going to try to get back to his usual two books a year pace.

How do I E-mail him sympathy rep?

[nacht]

It is the title, it is hexed.
He should rename it as "War Drums"

[Abyss]

That's the next book.
...if we take the usual double-entendre very liberally...

'War Torn' might work.

[worry]

Those don't have the same letters per word thing he does. It'd have to be Drum Wars or something like that, which doesn't make sense, unless it's about a haunted rock band, which isn't a bad idea, but GRRM kinda did it already with The Armageddon Rag.

[Salt-Man Z]

We did already get a comic called "War Cry". Not that he's shied away from similar-sounding titles: witness White Night, Summer Knight, and (from the concluding trilogy) Empty Night.

[Hound]

Apparently Butcher posted a short story on christmas eve titled 'Christmas Eve' AND! set AFTER the events of Peace Talks! Its very short but I thought it was great and I can't wait for Peace Talks now?!
https://docs.google....rK_uPzpUJg/edit

This post has been edited by Hound: 13 January 2019 - 04:48 PM

[Tattersail_]

Hound, on 13 January 2019 - 04:47 PM, said:

Apparently Butcher posted a short story on christmas eve titled 'Christmas Eve' AND! set AFTER the events of Peace Talks! Its very short but I thought it was great and I can't wait for Peace Talks now?!
https://docs.google....rK_uPzpUJg/edit

Yes I read it. Frustrating he mentioned

Spoiler

all the funerals

Like who do we think?

This post has been edited by Tattersail_: 14 January 2019 - 11:11 AM

[Aptorian]

It's been so long since I read a Dresden book I barely remember the cast.

Murphy, the dog and the cat better make it though.

[Cause]

Hound, on 13 January 2019 - 04:47 PM, said:

Apparently Butcher posted a short story on christmas eve titled 'Christmas Eve' AND! set AFTER the events of Peace Talks! Its very short but I thought it was great and I can't wait for Peace Talks now?!
https://docs.google....rK_uPzpUJg/edit

There can be no inner peace until peace talks is available on kindle!

[amphibian]

The sheer amount of the bills suggest that there are many civilians involved.

[Salt-Man Z]

I made a Kindle AZW3 file of that short story to read on my e-reader. PM me if you'd like a copy.

[Abyss]

Alternative Goose, on 14 January 2019 - 01:00 PM, said:

It's been so long since I read a Dresden book I barely remember the cast.

Murphy, the dog and the cat better make it though.

Anything fatal happens to Mouse and i will absolutely utterly lose it.

[amphibian]

Butcher is exactly the type to do a John Wick and have Harry not know anything about it at all though.