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Mirror Mirror Tracking on Butcher's official site!
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on November 10, 2025, 01:27:43 PM --- Hope it doesn't screw up the quality of the book, these things tend to go at their own time. But then again it might mean I will be able to finish the series before I die... ::)
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It's the first time, I think, that Jim has been partnered in his life with another published author. I suspect she'll have more experience of what an author actually needs, and be more-able to support him. OTOH -- being a working author herself -- there's also some potential for her to draw off some of Jim's "writing mind" to support her.
I suspect we won't actually know how the time-and-attention flow works for Jim until we see several novels' output & timing (it may take that long for them to settle into their "new normal"): will he be on-pace for his prior best production rate?
I don't think we can hope for "novel-per-year," because these latest volumes are chonkier than the ones he was writing at that place (not counting first 3;(SF/FM/GP all published 2001, presumably because he was grinding away at writing while the first one was moving slowly through the agent/editor queue (as per an unproven author) rather than being given "nearly guaranteed NYT besteller" treatment/priority)... but the next ELEVEN novels were one per year(!) ... then blipping up to 1.5 years for SG; so 18 months per novel is my hope; but (alternating with Cinder Spires) that would be THREE years between DF novels :_(
Lord Kinbote:
--- Quote from: g33k on November 10, 2025, 03:16:57 PM ---It's the first time, I think, that Jim has been partnered in his life with another published author.
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IIRC, Butcher's first wife was a published author of romance novels.
Fox:
--- Quote from: g33k on November 10, 2025, 03:16:57 PM ---It's the first time, I think, that Jim has been partnered in his life with another published author. I suspect she'll have more experience of what an author actually needs, and be more-able to support him. OTOH -- being a working author herself -- there's also some potential for her to draw off some of Jim's "writing mind" to support her.
I suspect we won't actually know how the time-and-attention flow works for Jim until we see several novels' output & timing (it may take that long for them to settle into their "new normal"): will he be on-pace for his prior best production rate?
I don't think we can hope for "novel-per-year," because these latest volumes are chonkier than the ones he was writing at that place (not counting first 3;(SF/FM/GP all published 2001, presumably because he was grinding away at writing while the first one was moving slowly through the agent/editor queue (as per an unproven author) rather than being given "nearly guaranteed NYT besteller" treatment/priority)... but the next ELEVEN novels were one per year(!) ... then blipping up to 1.5 years for SG; so 18 months per novel is my hope; but (alternating with Cinder Spires) that would be THREE years between DF novels :_(
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In fact it is not. I feel like we should avoid speculating on how JB’s personal relationships affect his writing timeline, beyond specific comments from the man himself.
Also for a while JB was releasing two books, a Dresden Files and a Codex Alera, every year.
Regardless, I’m incredibly excited both for Twelve Months and Mirror Mirror. I can’t even remember when Jim started talking about Mirror Mirror at this point. Was it before Changes?
Mira:
--- Quote ---I don't think we can hope for "novel-per-year," because these latest volumes are chonkier than the ones he was writing at that place (not counting first 3;(SF/FM/GP all published 2001, presumably because he was grinding away at writing while the first one was moving slowly through the agent/editor queue (as per an unproven author) rather than being given "nearly guaranteed NYT besteller" treatment/priority)... but the next ELEVEN novels were one per year(!) ... then blipping up to 1.5 years for SG; so 18 months per novel is my hope; but (alternating with Cinder Spires) that would be THREE years between DF novels :_(
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She may help him keep on track, as in finish one series before he starts writing the next. Though yes, many have enjoyed the other series that Jim has written during the past twenty years, part of the reason for the lags as long as five years between Dresden File books is he was writing other series, and in some cases more than one.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on November 11, 2025, 01:16:17 PM --- ... keep on track, as in finish one series before he starts writing the next ...
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Jim has said that he often uses one series as a "break" from the other series; by the time he's finished one of the DF novels, he's kind of sick of writing Harry. But if he writes in another universe, he comes back to the DF enthusiastic about it.
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