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[curiousfan]
Just an easy template for keeping track of transcripts, go to the newest one linked at the bottom to see if there are more since I can't update old threads.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/j74mwm/barbaras_bookstore_qa_transcript/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/j7hbfa/muskogee_chat_transcript/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/jgm01z/mysterious_galaxy_qa_transcript_marsters_chat_bits/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/jn6f0g/brief_cases_tour_austin_qa_transcript/ <--- You are here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/jvqepb/dragoncon_2019_qa_transcript_bits_from_2014/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/jyqqrl/2016_myths_and_legends_conference_qa_transcript/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/k7qgxo/the_legendarium_a_conversation_with_jim_butcher/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/kblcwm/dresden_files_podcast_episode_77_transcript/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/lrizkz/dragon_con_2020_qa_transcript/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/lyytw3/pensacon_2020_and_live_qa_with_priscilla_partial/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/m1r18d/okemos_comiccon_and_podcast_qa_transcripts/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/mka9ae/mikes_book_reviews_qa_with_jim_transcript/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/mq0znh/black_gate_poisoned_pen_dragoncon_2015_and/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/n2fjlx/tysons_corner_lexington_and_connecticon_partial/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/n9rpi3/comiccon_2017_dragoncon_2017_and_murder_by_the/

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u/TheCuriousFan
3 years ago

Pensacon 2020 and live Q&A with Priscilla partial transcripts
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Some transcripts with more questions skipped than not for a change because there's not that much in these two (most of it is acting stuff or questions answered by PT/BG) so they're only getting done partially but they're coming in batches of at least two interviews per set of partial transcripts to compensate.

Are you going to do anymore short stories with Molly Carpenter and are any of her siblings going to show up with some magical ability as well?

Am I going to do any short stories with Molly? I really hate writing short stories, I don't enjoy it at all. But apparently I don't hate it as much as I hate saying no to people who want me to write short stories for them.

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So maybe. Though Molly's sort of... her story path is not... it's not towards being familiar and human so it might be a little bit more difficult. As far as the other siblings in the Carpenter family, by the time the other kids were coming along her mom had buried that stuff so deep it wasn't coming back so.

I know you pull from at least a few different cultures that I know of mythology unintelligible Are there any cultures or specific mythologies that you haven't utilised yet that you're interested in bringing in?

Haven't done a lot of Hindu, don't know much about it. Haven't done a lot of Middle Eastern stuff don't know much about it. The stuff that I do use is stuff that I've been able to find good solid research on for the most part, that's where I can do some reading and I can more or less justify myself, you know, within a fudge factor. If you just go writing about stuff you've got no idea what's going on then that's probably not a good thing for you as a writer. I've been approached very /very/ carefully by some Navajo since writing about skinwalkers.

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They sent like the person who- they sent the person from the tribe who was half-white to come talk to me "maybe you speak his language I don't know but you need to be careful and evaluate him before you actually have a conversation with him or, you know, have a meal with him" so that's interesting, that sort of thing. That's serious stuff down there, you go to the south-west they take that seriously.

Okay so I know you said you had five cats and you've written cats so well-

I had zero cats before I wrote the book, I didn't actually get any cats until after the book.

-So in saying that, are there any cats like your physical cats that inspired the cats in your books?

No it's the other way around. We bought three Maine Coons and named them- we named one Mirl and one Rowl because they matched. But the big one is the big white one, his name is Bowie but he's like a thirty pound long haired Maine Coon, pure white with a green eye and a blue eye. He'll be in the next book as the commodore, he'll be the ship's cat for Bayard's ship, yeah commodore Beauregard is what they call him, they call him Beau which is what we call Bowie as well we call him Beau. And he'll always be the cat that's just a little bit better than Rowl at everything without really trying and he's Mirl's older brother so Rowl hates him but has to put up with him you know, so.

But then we got two more cats, we got Zatanna, Zatanna was a feral cat who got born under our porch and Kitty went and rescued the feral kittens because they were dying, she managed to save two of them and one of them we got to in time to socialise and so he's with a family who spoils him outrageously now, he's a big Persian looking cat it's ridiculous. And then the other one was Zatanna she's a little tiny tuxedo four pound kitten sized cat and so we named her Zatanna because she has a tuxedo but she doesn't like people very much but she bonded to our cats though so we got our cat a cat.

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And then we had three more kittens that were found abandoned and we found homes for two of them and we kept one of them and it turns out that they weren't actually kittens they were five years old and they're just tiny from being malnourished and they conned us into thinking they were kittens.

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Now they all have a decent home so one of them his name is Fenris he's the one who stays with us, he's a foster cat we're gonna give him away someday (still there as of November 2020). I know he sleeps on everybody's lap and everything like that and rides around on my shoulder but we'll give him away. Damn cat he's a liar and a swindler.

Were you the one that named him Fenris?

No that was Kitty she named him that off of Dragon Age just because she likes Fenris (good taste). But yeah Fenris is the alpha cat in the house now, he's the smallest animal and he runs it. So when Bru comes up to mess with him Bru will come up and try to be a little bit friendly, Bru's my Pitbull, he's a ninety pound Pitbull and the Pitbull version of friendly is a little enthusiastic. So he'll come up to sniff Fenris and like knock him off the furniture by doing it and Fenris will just look at him and just the look on his face is "hey man, I'm not angry at you, but I'm disappointed".

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And he does this to all the cats and he's the first one to eat, he gets to check out Bru's bowl before Bru gets to eat and all that but he's the one who's in charge of the house he might be in charge of us I'm not sure, which probably means that he is, geez. But he's very cool though we'll take him out on walks, put him on a harness and take him for walks because he can handle the outdoors he's very fine with it, just super chill. So pretty good cat as far as cats go. He'll make a nice cat for somebody someday.

Are we going to get more stuff from Mouse's POV?

More stuff from Mouse's point of view? Probably- yeah I got roped into this anthology- like I said I hate saying no to people. So some people came up with this anthology and said "we want to write an anthology that's all animal stories and we're gonna dedicate all the money to animal shelters" and to which I said "yeah okay and let me get you the email addresses of all these other big authors that I know. Here's Rothfuss, here's Sanderson", you know, like that. Going down the list of people to ask because that's the kind of thing- you get to my point in life and career and you like writing your stuff and everything and so on but you also look around and think "what am I actually doing? What am I-besides just writing stories and getting royalty cheques what am I doing with my life?" And for me it's like, I want to help animals so that's what I'm doing. It's- for a project like that as a charity project I think you're actually better off going to the bigtime writers because the folks who haven't got there yet are more like "you know I would love to but I want to eat", you know like that, so, kind of where we are now.

In the Dresden Files RPG there's little sticky notes and stuff in there, have they ever gotten too close to stuff that hasn't been published yet?

Yeah, I had to delete all kinds of stuff. I was really pleased that they had come up with all these potential story leads and so on but I was like "no you can't play with those I'm already playing with those go away".

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But it pleased me very much that I had given them the background of the story universe and then they had logically put together the same things I had logically put together. So it was like "oooh this must work, it must be kind of sound if other people can take it and go to the same place," I was really pleased with how Evil Hat researched the stuff. I mean it was run by my gaming buddy from college, Fred, he ran the company but he wasn't necessarily actually working on the material the whole time that was other people but Fred was like "trust me they're nerdy enough" and coming from Fred that's a recommendation, so. But yeah it was a lot of fun I would have- we would get together about every three weeks and I would just talk for two or three hours about the world, try and answer questions as best I can that they had and a lot of times that's fun because I don't know the answer to the question until somebody asks me. Somebody askes me a question, "well what is the answer to that question oh obviously it's this now I know something cool about my world and it sounds like it was there the whole time", you know, so.

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Just your intellectus coming in.

Yeah it's my intellectus, not my BS rolls eyes.

Just a quick follow up to that (microfiction and PT release date question) with the Morgan microfiction was that something that was just in the back of your head or was that actually part of your masterplan the entire time?

It's the plan. Morgan was always the guy who was really not all that bad a guy if you weren't Harry Dresden. I mean it's just that- circumstance and fate had arranged things for him to just be a nightmare for Dresden, that was his purpose in the world. And I had to stop and think "well how do you take- how do you get somebody who is more or less somebody with a code of honour and ethics and make him behave the way I need him to behave without just making him a jerk?" You see Morgan through Dresden's point of view so he's always a jerk except kind of at the very end- he's kind of a jerk at the very end. But yeah, the Dresden Files story from other people's points of view is a very different story. We get Harry's point of view because he's right in the middle of the furball so he has a very different take on things than everybody else but- I mean if I was writing the story from, you know, the Merlin's point of view Harry would essentially be Loki. I mean he's this agent of chaos who keeps causing problems. And from other people's points of view it's very different, I mean the further away you get from Dresden the weirder the world looks because it's a different world from what he sees.

I know that your foray into the heist subgenre went really well, are there any other subgenres that you're interested in bringing into Dresden in a future work that you haven't got to play with yet?

Dystopia, apocalypse, kaiju, professional wrestling and we gotta do a dragon book still.

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Right? We'll have to break some laws of magic for that one, definitely.

Will we get to know more about the daughters as the books come out?

Yeah that's the idea they kind of have to be there a bit, you know, so. But at the same time they're gonna grow up at child speed so don't expect it to happen anytime soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA6hcE5-YCA

prior talk was 22 books planned before BAT now

-that's nice and round yes, though will this completely throw off like the Denarians appearing in every book that's a multiple of five?

Nah it should be alright.

Excellent, cool, cool.

Who wins, Dresden or McGonagall? Like McGonagall from Harry Potter?

Oh god like Harry would hit an old lady, for crying out loud, McGonagall wins.

McGonagall survived cancer, she kicks butt.

Does the winter mantle make Harry more venerable to Lara Raith? I'm sorry it was written venerable.

Well it probably gives him a little more gravitas but it won't make him any older. I think you meant does it make him more vulnerable to Lara Raith and I would say anything that makes you more aggressive and horny probably does make you more vulnerable to Lara Raith.

Here's a good paranoid question, in Cold Days during the mind battle between Harry and Sharkface near Demonreach Sharkface says the following "I AM GATEBREAKER, HARBINGER! I AM FEARGIVER, HOPESLAYER! I AM HE-WHO-WALKS-BEFORE!". The commas between gatebreaker and harbinger and between feargiver and hopeslayer made me wonder, knowing how evil you are, is Sharkface naming /himself/ in all five of those instances or is he naming Dresden in the first and the second too, i.e. is he calling Dresden harbinger and hopeslayer?

I don't know I just write these books man, that's all I do, I just kind of write down what goes through my head. That's paranoid.

The insertion of a comma in the middle of a phrase that changes the meaning, did you intend it?

Did it change the meaning? It all depends on how it's being delivered doesn't it. I don't know we should listen to the audio and see what James thinks. Because he really does- he changes the story occasionally based on the inflections and emphasis that he puts on words and the way he delivers the lines, he occasionally changes things, couple of times he's just broken my heart doing that, it's like "James you're evil", that's me saying that.

Can we expect a Covid-19 inspired event in future Dresden adventures?

Probably not in future Dresden adventures although there's going to be a plague story because there's always a plague story whenever you're doing a long running story unintelligible. But I think I may well be writing up essentially a... AU fanfic of the Dresden files by myself and give it to you guys and we'll set that in a parallel Dresden universe that starts at the same place right after Skin Game and we'll see what we can do with that. See if we get get started on that over the next several weeks so people have something to think about other than ugly stuff. That's a good thing, now is a time when entertainers- this is a time where entertainers it's time for us to go to war, I think you're going to see a lot of us doing everything we can to provide stuff to our readers and our fans and viewers because there's a lot of folks just like me on this. You want to help, I can't make you any better but maybe I can make you not afraid for a little while while you're reading my stuff, that's worth doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V9am4XyYz4

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Dresden Files Podcast Q&A July 9, 2016

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https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/fo859p/live_qa_with_jim_butcher_and_priscilla_spencer/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/jvqepb/dragoncon_2019_qa_transcript_bits_from_2014/

The_Sibelis:
Lol, the exact quote about the cloud of parallel realities confirmed a long held theory that he's running them all parallel and that's why he's sometimes not sure in interviews. Nice he actually said it.

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