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Title: Status Report
Post by: David one Mutts Friend on December 04, 2017, 10:59:33 PM
I know I have asked this before! But do we have a status report that is official on PT?


David
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on December 04, 2017, 11:22:35 PM
Nothing official so far. During a recent Q&A, he mentioned that it should be several months after the release of next short story collection. That is not definite or comes with a release date. But, it is what I know. Others may have more thorough intel.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Rasins on December 06, 2017, 07:22:39 PM
The latest thing I've seen....

http://ispeacetalksoutyet.com/ (http://ispeacetalksoutyet.com/)
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on December 07, 2017, 12:15:59 AM
Not going to get me with that one; because I have already been got.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Firestarter on December 14, 2017, 11:08:27 AM
Quote from: wardenferry419 on December 07, 2017, 12:15:59 AM
Not going to get me with that one; because I have already been got.
It basically says, that Peace Talks comes out in 40 something years :D
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on December 16, 2017, 02:54:18 PM
Someone says it adds time with every viewing.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Firestarter on December 16, 2017, 03:05:31 PM
George R. R. Martin kills of more Starks, Jim Butcher delays the release :D To each his own.

On the other hand, last book of the Song of Ice and Fire came out 2011 so we can't complain there.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on December 16, 2017, 03:14:25 PM
And last Martin book was lacking.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Firestarter on December 16, 2017, 03:33:34 PM
From what I gathered, it got split into two books and only the first one is out so far. Funny, the only book I know with more sex in it than Martin's books is the Bible.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on December 16, 2017, 04:18:24 PM
Oh, there are many that have plenty; but, the more you add the less interesting the story.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Firestarter on December 16, 2017, 04:21:14 PM
Quote from: wardenferry419 on December 16, 2017, 04:18:24 PM
Oh, there are many that have plenty; but, the more you add the less interesting the story.
You've got that right. I mean, if I want to read about bed scenes, I'll go and buy some harlequin books...
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on December 16, 2017, 04:36:00 PM
I am sure there are some equally bad Dresden fan fictions out there.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Firestarter on December 16, 2017, 04:40:59 PM
Quote from: wardenferry419 on December 16, 2017, 04:36:00 PM
I am sure there are some equally bad Dresden fan fictions out there.
Are you familiar with the term fujoshi? Now there's a source for some twisted fanfics, if I've ever seen one. There is one thing I never could understand: Why do so many female fans want to turn straight men into gay couples?

Also: Griffin wrote something nice and fairly readable. It's set in Dresdenverse, but it doesn't touch many original characters too deeply:
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7102335/griffyn612 I've only read Torch Light 1for now, but it looks like I'm going to read the next one as well :)
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on December 16, 2017, 04:52:34 PM
Thanks, I saved it.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Ulfgeir on December 18, 2017, 10:11:38 PM
Quote from: Firestarter on December 16, 2017, 04:40:59 PM
Also: Griffin wrote something nice and fairly readable. It's set in Dresdenverse, but it doesn't touch many original characters too deeply:
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7102335/griffyn612 I've only read Torch Light 1for now, but it looks like I'm going to read the next one as well :)

He does some interesting stuff, though some of it is quite dark, and that is not everyones cup of tea. I contributed one character for one of the books (Hell Bent).  ;)

/Ulfgeir
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on December 19, 2017, 04:57:22 PM
On twitter, there is cover art for brief cases.
http://www.denofgeek.com/us/books-comics/jim-butcher/269760/dresden-files-exclusive-first-look-brief-cases-by-jim-butcher-cover-art
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Rasins on December 19, 2017, 07:19:11 PM
YES!!  I got this in e-mail.  With a June 5 release date.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on December 19, 2017, 07:25:46 PM
Then, I noticed the homepage for the main site. *blushes with chagrin*
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Griffyn612 on December 30, 2017, 08:38:31 PM
Quote from: Firestarter on December 16, 2017, 04:40:59 PM
Also: Griffin wrote something nice and fairly readable.
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 I've only read Torch Light 1for now, but it looks like I'm going to read the next one as well :)
Out of curiosity, please let me know if it gets more or less "fairly readable" beyond Torch Light.   :D

Quote from: Ulfgeir on December 18, 2017, 10:11:38 PM
He does some interesting stuff, though some of it is quite dark, and that is not everyones cup of tea. I contributed one character for one of the books (Hell Bent).  ;)

/Ulfgeir
I'd say the Dalca series is dark, and the Mirrorverse isn't very light.  But is the Hayes series "dark"?  I didn't think it was, at least any more so than Dresden.

As for Amy...
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Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Ulfgeir on December 30, 2017, 10:33:04 PM
Quote from: Griffyn612 on December 30, 2017, 08:38:31 PM
Out of curiosity, please let me know if it gets more or less "fairly readable" beyond Torch Light.   :D
I'd say the Dalca series is dark, and the Mirrorverse isn't very light.  But is the Hayes series "dark"?  I didn't think it was, at least any more so than Dresden.

No the Hayes aren't that dark. The Dalca ones though are, and since they seem interconnected...

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As for Amy...

Cool. I do hope you get the time to do more writing.  ;)

Well, we finished the campaign she came from. The GM had his fun throughout the campaign to torture her with various visions. My chronicle from it ended up being 100 pages long. And now we are playing a campaign in Mage: the Acension set in the same city as our Dresden campaign (Boston), and the gm there is pulling things from the Dresden-campign and making them much darker. Will be interesting to see what he puts her through. And I put a version of her in my superhero-campaign. There she is a nice person who might end up helping one of the villains.

/Ulfgeir
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Griffyn612 on December 30, 2017, 10:37:57 PM
Quote from: Ulfgeir on December 30, 2017, 10:33:04 PM
No the Hayes aren't that dark. The Dalca one sthough are. and since they seem interconnected...
Yeah, they're connected, but the idea is that Dalca will never be essential to the Hayes story.  And the reason I wrote that one in third person was too help me buffer Dalca's personality from mine.  But I like exploring stories from the perspective of the bad guys.

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Cool. I do hope you get the time to do more writing.  ;)

/Ulfgeir
Me too.  Pesky work getting in the way of my hobbies!
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Ulfgeir on December 30, 2017, 10:43:44 PM
Quote from: Griffyn612 on December 30, 2017, 10:37:57 PM
Me too.  Pesky work getting in the way of my hobbies!

Isn't that always the case?  ;)  I too seem to suffer from it.

/Ulfgeir
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on December 30, 2017, 10:52:56 PM
Me too. Oh No! It's an epidemic!
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wildone654 on January 25, 2018, 10:56:47 PM
Everytime I read "It’s still way too early for blurbs, preorders, release dates, and the like" I die a little inside.

I do hope Mr. Butcher hasn't lost interest in this series, or if he has he publishes his notes or somthing so we can fill in the blanks.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on January 26, 2018, 01:04:53 AM
This year will be the year. Nostradamus foretold it. :)
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Rasins on January 26, 2018, 05:25:29 PM
Nostradamus?  I thought it was Ms. Cleo the Clairvoyant.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on January 27, 2018, 12:02:59 AM
Pleaase, Ms. Cleo didn't even see her own death coming.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: LoopyGuru on March 10, 2018, 07:37:04 PM
Just watching a youtube vid of Jim at Emerald City Comic Con and he says that he expects to finish Peace Talks by the end of April.

So fingers crossed ...
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Dina on March 15, 2018, 07:07:30 PM
*wishes*
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: wardenferry419 on March 15, 2018, 11:16:52 PM
I think we all are hoping and wishing.
Title: Re: Status Report
Post by: Graves on March 27, 2018, 10:24:41 PM
sincer brief cases is coming out in june, that does not bode well for a full length novel. it was this book- another anthology of hsort stories almost all of which we've seen before that has me royally ticked off. it's mostly re-runs-those damn bigfoot stories have appeared a few times- and yet we're supposed to cough up full price as if it were a full length novel? I use to gobble stuff up as soon as it was out, this? it doesn't give me hope for PT and I'll wait until brief cases is  'used' on amazon.