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Info about Peace Talks from Reading the WoJ section
g33k:
Gonna add a column of data...
No. Title Release date AGONIZING WAIT
1 Storm Front April 1, 2000
2 Fool Moon Jan. 1, 2001 9 mo
3 Grave Peril Sep. 1, 2001 8 mo
4 Summer Knight Sep. 3, 2002 12 mo
5 Death Masks Aug. 5, 2003 11 mo
6 Blood Rites Aug. 2, 2004 12 mo
7 Dead Beat May 3, 2005 9 mo
8 Proven Guilty May 2, 2006 12 mo
9 White Night April 3, 2007 11 mo
10 Small Favor April 1, 2008 12 mo
11 Turn Coat April 7, 2009 12 mo
12 Changes April 6, 2010 12 mo
13 Ghost Story July 26, 2011 15 mo
14 Cold Days Nov. 27, 2012 16 mo
15 Skin Game May 27, 2014 18 mo
16 Peace Talks ??? ???
I suspect that the relatively-minor extra time for GS/CD/SG was for the complexity of laying down some pre-BAT material, and revising for consistency (per Beta feedback) with the ever-increasing canon... but maybe it was (in part or whole) dealing with some of the early stages of how things went so badly for him in this latest interregnum.
Also remember, his editor isn't a machine, either, and we don't know how much of a delay can be laid at the doors of after-Jim-hands-over-the-MS. people...
I doubt we'll ever get back to the days of 12-months-or-less-per-book, but I think 15-16 months is a reasonable hope.
ETA: Columnation... really sux. I swear, it looks fine in my compose/edit window!!!
Mira:
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I doubt we'll ever get back to the days of 12-months-or-less-per-book, but I think 15-16 months is a reasonable hope.
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No, that was back in the days when Jim had a lot fewer irons in the fire... He is a good writer and a productive one, but a novel takes a lot of focus, a long series with lots of interdependent detail takes a lot of focus because his readers really notice if he screws up..
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on September 13, 2019, 12:16:46 AM ---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.
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Especially since the sword was the Sword of Faith.
@CrusherJen: It is my understanding that the Betas get the book one chapter at a time as Jim finishes the chapter.
@g33k: We could figure it out because Jim says when he finishes each book (I'm not sure how far that goes back, though).
I do agree that the books are going to take longer to write for all the reasons stated, but I do think 15-16 is a reasonable hope.
KurtinStGeorge:
In the original forum I posted a thread where I compared when Jim posted "The End" on twitter for each novel and compared it to the actual release date of the novel. I think I went back as far as Blood Rites or Death Masks. The record time was a little less than three months. Jim typed "The End" in the first or second week of January and it was released in early April. I think that might have been for Changes, but my memory is a little sketchy on that one. The average amount of waiting was about six months. A couple of novels took as long as nine months to the release date and I believe Cold Days took over a year. There were several other Dresden Files books that only required four months from "The End" to release date.
Bad Alias:
I remember that.
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