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From the author's website...
Jim Butcher is a martial arts enthusiast with fifteen years of experience in various styles including Ryukyu Kempo, Tae Kwan Do, Gojo Shorei Ryu, and a sprinkling of Kung Fu. He is a skilled rider and has worked as a summer camp horse wrangler and performed in front of large audiences in both drill riding and stunt riding exhibitions. Jim enjoys fencing, singing, bad science fiction movies and live-action gaming. He lives in Missouri with his wife, son, and a vicious guard dog. Jim goes by the moniker Longshot in a number of online locales. He came by this name in the early 1990's when he decided he would become a published author. Usually only 3 in 1000 who make such an attempt actually manage to become published; of those, only 1 in 10 make enough money to call it a living. The sale of a second series was the breakthrough that let him beat the long odds against attaining a career as a novelist. All the same, he refuses to change his nickname. |
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Dresden Files | |||
Codex Alera | |||
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2008-05-24 | |||
Based on content from the official Jim Butcher website (www.jim-butcher.com), it appears the title for the 11th Dresden Files installment might be Turn Coat. | |||
2007-11-28 | |||
Though not officially released until next tuesday, Jim Butcher's fourth Codex Alera book - Captain's Fury has been spotted on the shelves! | |||
2007-11-16 | |||
Thanks to Amazon.com, we now have a blurb on Jim Butcher's upcoming Dresden Files novel, Small Favor!!! Check it out! | |||
2007-10-23 | |||
The Dresden Files, by author Jim Butcher, is set to be "translated" into graphic novel form by Dabel Brother's Production. From the official Butcher website "The current plan is to lay out the Dresden Files storyline at the rate of one of the novels every twelve to sixteen monthly issues, with occasional side-trips and independent stories thrown in." | |||
2007-10-04 | |||
Now available on Jim Butcher's website are preview chapters of his upcoming book Captain's Fury, book four of the Codex Alera series!! Each Wednesday the author's website will preview at least one chapter of Captain's Fury, from the Prologue to Chapter Four, ending on Halloween! Happy Reading!
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2007-08-22 | |||
Amazon.com has a small synopsis for the upcoming installment of the Dresden Files, Small Favors, by Jim Butcher. | |||
2007-08-04 | |||
The Dresden Files television series has now been officially cancelled. www.jim-butcher.com/news/000209.php. | |||
2007-04-09 | |||
A fan has posted a Q&A from Jim Butcher's White Night book signing tour on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR63mOnM2Js. Of particular note from the session was that Butcher wants to do about 20 Dresden Files "case" books, and a final "apocolyptic" trilogy. And the working title for the next book in the series is Small Favor. | |||
2007-02-28 | |||
Available on Jim Butcher's website are sample chapters from his upcoming Dresden Files book, White Night. Enjoy! | |||
2007-01-21 | |||
The day has finally arrived - the SciFi Channel original series based on Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series airs tonight! | |||
2007-01-02 | |||
The next Codex Alera book is named Captain's Fury.
To quote from Fresh Fiction's Tanzey Talk: "Roc has signed sci-fi author Jim Butcher for CAPTAIN'S FURY and two more titles, books four through six of his Codex Alera series featuring Tavi, the only one of his race to lack the magical power of the Furies." Hope we don't have to wait to long before it comes out. | |||
2006-10-08 | |||
There is a video interview of author Jim Butcher available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DbsSGiGCmw. | |||
2006-09-26 | |||
Scifi.com now has a website up for the upcoming Dresden Files TV show, based on the novels by Jim Butcher. Check it out! http://www.scifi.com/dresden/ | |||
2006-07-27 | |||
Check out the new Dresden Files trailer that's been floating around the SciFi Channel! Trailer. | |||
2006-05-23 | |||
The SCI FI Channel has ordered 11 episodes of The Dresden Files, based on Jim Butcher's best-selling books, the network said. Nicolas Cage's Saturn Films and Lionsgate TV will produce the series, which kicks off with a two-hour pilot in January 2007! | |||
2006-04-27 | |||
Although not officially released until May 2, 2006, Jim Butcher's latest Dresden Files novel Proven Guilty has been sited in bookstores! | |||
2006-03-25 | |||
Jim Butcher, author of The Dresden Files and Codex Alera, is trying his hand in Spiderman's world with his upcoming book The Darkest Hours. Check out our entry to see the awesome cover art!
Also, the cover art for Cursor's Fury book #3 of Codex Alera (due out December 2006) has just been added! And it's gorgeous!
And finally, the April 2006 edition of Sci Fi Magazine has a great article on the upcoming Dresden Files movie, complete with an interview with star Paul Blackthorne and pictures of the cast. Check it out! | |||
2005-12-04 | |||
From Jim Butcher's website, more casting choices have been announced!
Dresden - Paul Blackthorne Murphy - Valerie Cruz Susan - Rebecca McFarland Morgan - Conrad Coates Ancient Mai - Elizabeth Thai Kirmani - Raoul Bhaneja Bianca - Joanne Kelly | |||
2005-11-15 | |||
There is a movie in the works that is based on the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. It is for the SciFi channel so here is what they have to say about it (from www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?id=33221)
Blackthorne To Play Dresden SCI FI Channel has cast Paul Blackthorne (24) as Chicago-based wizard and detective Harry Dresden in its upcoming TV movie The Dresden Files. David Carson (Star Trek: Generations) has been tapped to direct the two-hour backdoor pilot, which will commence production in Toronto later this month, with plans for a summer 2006 premiere, the network said. Blackthorne is perhaps best known as the villainous Stephen Saunders on Fox's 24. The Dresden Files is based on the best-selling series of novels by Jim Butcher. It is being produced by Lions Gate Television, in association with Nicolas Cage's Saturn Films. Hans Beimler (Profiler) and Robert Wolfe (The 4400) will serve as executive producers alongside Cage, his Saturn Films partner, Norm Golightly, and Morgan Gendel. Beimler and Wolfe wrote the script. The Dresden Files centers on Dresden, a private eye with extraordinary abilities. Where others see typical crimes of assault, kidnapping and murder, he sees otherworldly forces at work. | |||
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Reader Reviews:
December 05, 2005
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I picked up Jim Butcher's first book - Storm Front - on a whim after reading a blurb about it on the cover of another book, and I've been steadily trying to get other people to read them ever since! The main character in his Dresden Files is interesting and different and has faults, which makes him even more interesting. He makes mistakes and pays for them, which can make for some very interesting storylines. His Codex Alera series is also great, if only because it is so different from the Dresden Files. It's almost as if a different author is writing two different series. It's refreshing seeing an author who can stretch from an urban/modern fantasy series to a more epic fantasy series.
December 06, 2005
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Jim Butcher is a good versatile author. Like Elayne mentions his two series to date are quite different. Not just in the time periods and settings but also in the tone. The Dresden Files have a sort of dark humor runing through out, while the Codex Alera books are the normal straightforward fantasy romp with the occasional laugh. He does both series well, and I look forward to more of his work.
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