The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Info about Peace Talks from Reading the WoJ section
Bad Alias:
I have a hard time with Butters' "trust but verify" attitude that results in verification turning to a complete lack of trust while Murphy's attitude moves from Dresden being a "thing" to "you may be a monster, but I'll follow you anyway" at the same time. I feel like we didn't get enough character development from Butters to justify this. And it's the sort of character development Jim is capable of doing in a paragraph or two.
Murphy's transition can be justified by the text alone. Butters', not so much.
Regenbogen:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on September 12, 2019, 05:31:45 PM ---There is an obscure website; I think they cover fantasy books, that is listing April 14, 2020 as the release date of Peace Talks. I think they pulled this date out of their collective rear end because that led me to checking multiple sites for conformation and none of them had any info on PT's release date.
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On amazon.de the date is listed April 2020, but I already got fooled last year. They had the date at October 2018. You could even preorder. I was so happy, when October came. But there was no book. In November I received an e-mail that the book wasn't available yet. What the f****. I was so disappointed. Why do they list some random date? Why don't they just say 'no release date known yet' or something like that?
Now it's the same with April 2020. The date was already online while JB was still writing.
On the other hand... If they had not fooled me, I wouldn't have started a research and found this forum.
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on September 12, 2019, 07:27:42 PM ---I have a hard time with Butters' "trust but verify" attitude that results in verification turning to a complete lack of trust while Murphy's attitude moves from Dresden being a "thing" to "you may be a monster, but I'll follow you anyway" at the same time. I feel like we didn't get enough character development from Butters to justify this. And it's the sort of character development Jim is capable of doing in a paragraph or two.
Murphy's transition can be justified by the text alone. Butters', not so much.
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I tend to agree. It felt a bit forced, didn't it? Kinda like it was needed for the plot rather than as a natural outgrowth of Butters' character. I suppose I should explain why the plot needed Butters to act this way. Butters needed to be skeptical of Harry so he could learn to have faith in something bigger than himself. That needed to happen for Butters to become KotC and made that moment feel much more powerful; or at least that was the intention. I don't think it worked as well as intended because the forced nature of Butters initial skepticism of Harry tainted; to a degree, what followed. (Not the entire novel, just the rest of Butters story.)
We see this happen in movies all the time. A character will act one way or do something that isn't well explained or developed, just so they can do something stunning later on, like becoming the hero in time to save the day. Sometimes in a fast paced movie you won't consciously notice this, but as Mr. Plinkitt on Red Letter Media's YouTube channel says, "But your brain did" notice it.
CrusherJen:
I'm thinking (hoping) the April 2020 date is a conservative guesstimate. If Jim got the manuscript back from the Betas and submitted it to the publisher in August, that's an eight-month turnaround, giving plenty of time for revisions, typesetting, printing, etc.
I'm truly hoping the publisher decides to expedite the process (and not just because I want it in my hands ASAP.) I'd heard here somewhere that the beta readers were getting chunks to read during the writing process. If that's true, then hopefully (crossing fingers) the manuscript won't need much polishing. Plus with all the pent-up demand for the title I think it's worth their while to get Peace Talks out as quickly as is reasonably possible.
I'm still hoping for December, but first quarter 2020 is also possible. The only justification I can think of for waiting until April is to avoid January and February, which tend to be slow months for retail in general. (And IMHO a good way to fight slow sales is to publish a proven author!)
KurtinStGeorge:
Dresden Files bibliography
No. Title Release date
1 Storm Front April 1, 2000
2 Fool Moon January 1, 2001
3 Grave Peril September 1, 2001
4 Summer Knight September 3, 2002
5 Death Masks August 5, 2003
6 Blood Rites August 2, 2004
7 Dead Beat May 3, 2005
8 Proven Guilty May 2, 2006
9 White Night April 3, 2007
10 Small Favor April 1, 2008
11 Turn Coat April 7, 2009
12 Changes April 6, 2010
13 Ghost Story July 26, 2011
14 Cold Days November 27, 2012
15 Skin Game May 27, 2014
Five of the Dresden Files books have been released in April and two in early May. So I can see why someone websites would pick April of next year as a good speculative guess, even if there is really no evidence to back that up.
It's interesting to look at those release dates. I remember thinking Jim took a long time to finish Ghost Story and the wait for Cold Days seemed endless. I guess we didn't know how good we had it.
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