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DF Spoilers / Re: Out lawn cover and preorder
« on: November 29, 2025, 12:55:30 AM »I suspect we'll see that character again since the made a big deal out of "extracting service."
I think this is right.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Can we see Rudy take up a sword
« on: November 24, 2025, 02:26:48 AM »
I think that speculation makes sense, that Rudolph has a bigger role here than's been revealed yet. The name 'Rudolph' is Germanic and means 'famous wolf' or 'glory wolf.' Any famous wolfs in mythology? Particularly Germanic? Possible that Rudolph is Loki in disguise?
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DF Spoilers / Re: Mirror Mirror Tracking on Butcher's official site!
« on: November 18, 2025, 02:14:37 AM »We fans are loyal and continue on, they are counting on that, the writers even try to pretend that some of the events early in the series didn't happen as they try to keep the story going.
You're a better fan than me. I can walk away, and have, from series for which I was an enthusiastic early adapter, participated in forums and podcasts, and otherwise annoyed people with my thoughts and cheerleading. The X-Files comes immediately to mind as an example. I quit watching seasons before it ended; I think I even left before Duchovny. I'm hoping the Dresden Files isn't added to the list. But my relationship to the series isn't solely up to me.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Mirror Mirror Tracking on Butcher's official site!
« on: November 16, 2025, 01:38:41 AM »However I still say he can finish the series with half the novels and do it well. It might even make the stories a bit more interesting as well.
I'm sure Butcher could but he and his publisher would be leaving money on the table. I wouldn't ask Butcher to forego the payout he expects for the entire 25 books, or 26 or whatever the number is today. I've watched many a long running hit TV series continue past their expiration dates but understand that the actors are getting paid money on their second contract that offset the low pay of their first, the crew and all supporting contractors are employed and providing for their families, etc. I've no problem with that so long as they don't try to tell me "it's not about the money; we still have stories to tell."
But that doesn't mean that there aren't ways to accelerate the novel writing so that Butcher and his publisher get the financial benefits of all planned novels, while we readers get the conclusion quicker. In fact, I'd bet that Butcher would see more money by finishing the series quicker (and actually finish it and able to enjoy the rewards; he's not getting younger either) as there are readers who won't start an unfinished series because they've been burnt by other authors who don't finish. I wish they'd explore alternatives to the current pace, and figure out a quicker path to the end.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Mirror Mirror Tracking on Butcher's official site!
« on: November 14, 2025, 08:31:39 PM »We are talking another twenty plus years, and most of his fans that got him here won't live to see it.
I've been doing that math for a few years, and I'm thinking I won't be here for the end. I had a friend pass in 2024 who had read up through Skin Game in 2014 but decided not to buy or read Peace Talks or Battleground in 2020. She knew she wouldn't be able to read the end of the series and figured she had other books to read and better things to do. (Plus, after 6 years since Skin Game's release, she had lost track of characters, plots, where things had been left, etc. and thought it simply wasn't worth the effort to re-familiarize herself with the series.)
I can't even say I'm cautiously optimistic that the series will be done in less than 20 years even with the recent developments (Butcher already tracking progress of Mirror, Mirror; his statements that he plans to be done with MM before touring on Twelve Months). And no matter what I can't envision he'd ever get back to a Dresden novel every 18-24 months. So I guess I'll stay irritated and take the novels one at a time, and maybe at some point make the same decision as my friend.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Mirror Mirror Tracking on Butcher's official site!
« on: November 10, 2025, 09:45:39 PM »It's the first time, I think, that Jim has been partnered in his life with another published author.
IIRC, Butcher's first wife was a published author of romance novels.
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DF Spoilers / Mirror Mirror Tracking on Butcher's official site!
« on: November 07, 2025, 03:08:04 AM »
The "When's the Next Book?!!" slider for Twelve Months has been REPLACED by a slider for Mirror Mirror. Wholly unexpected by me, notwithstanding his public pronouncement that he wants to be done with Mirror Mirror before the promo tour for Twelve Months.
As of this posting, it rests at 14%.
As of this posting, it rests at 14%.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months, chapter one
« on: November 01, 2025, 02:10:56 AM »
From that tidbit (chapter?), Dresden seems to be in far worse mental and emotional shape than he was in Christmas Eve. Maybe Christmas Eve occurs after this tidbit?
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DF Spoilers / Re: This weekend's panel
« on: October 16, 2025, 01:59:42 AM »
"Mirror Mirror is 10% done and will be done before he leaves on his book tour for Twelve Months." I truly hope this is an accurate reporting of what Butcher said, and that he keeps to it. But doesn't that mean he has 90% of 12Ms to write in about 3 months?
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DF Spoilers / Re: Jim Butcher at Dragon Con 2025
« on: September 21, 2025, 06:00:22 PM »
My WAG - Harry kills Mirror Harry (MH) to reclaim the WK mantle.
Background WAGs - Harry's WK mantle can't cross out of the canon universe and into the Mirror universe. Canon WK mantle is irrevocably tied to the canon universe. In mirror universe, Harry finds out his back is sufficiently healed that he doesn't need the WK mantle to function as he did before his back was broken. WK mantle returns to canon Mab. MH crosses into canon universe and canon WK mantle flows to MH (or maybe Mab bestows it on him). When Harry returns to canon universe, he is free from the WK mantle and Mab, and can remain that way, back to how he was prior to Changes. But Harry concludes that he has to take the WK mantle back. Maybe Harry can't bring himself to break his pledge to only leave Winter with Molly and can't leave her alone in Winter, maybe he concludes he needs the WK power to deal with the Outsiders and Black Council, etc. So Harry knows he has kill the current WK - MH - to retake the mantle. And Harry does, and has to live with the fact that he has voluntarily chosen to kill to become the WK again.
But I don't think Alfred acknowledges the MH as the warden.
Background WAGs - Harry's WK mantle can't cross out of the canon universe and into the Mirror universe. Canon WK mantle is irrevocably tied to the canon universe. In mirror universe, Harry finds out his back is sufficiently healed that he doesn't need the WK mantle to function as he did before his back was broken. WK mantle returns to canon Mab. MH crosses into canon universe and canon WK mantle flows to MH (or maybe Mab bestows it on him). When Harry returns to canon universe, he is free from the WK mantle and Mab, and can remain that way, back to how he was prior to Changes. But Harry concludes that he has to take the WK mantle back. Maybe Harry can't bring himself to break his pledge to only leave Winter with Molly and can't leave her alone in Winter, maybe he concludes he needs the WK power to deal with the Outsiders and Black Council, etc. So Harry knows he has kill the current WK - MH - to retake the mantle. And Harry does, and has to live with the fact that he has voluntarily chosen to kill to become the WK again.
But I don't think Alfred acknowledges the MH as the warden.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Jim Butcher at Dragon Con 2025
« on: September 11, 2025, 08:31:43 PM »
I fully expect Dresden and Lara to get married and while their union is not their idea and may only be done begrudgingly, it won't be done involuntarily. I expect Butcher to make their acquiescence logical and the 'least bad' alternative for them - and that's without considering Mab's wrath if they don't get married. Butcher is great at maneuvering Dresden into a place where a decision he makes isn't one that he wants to make but feels he must due to necessity from obligation or responsibility. I'd be surprised by romantic love between them, but certainly a high degree of respect (even though Dresden will likely always think of Lara as a monster; to him, 'she's a monster, but I can respect her, trust her word, and work with her').
The bigger question to me is whether there will be consummation. I expect so because Mab will demand it.
The bigger question to me is whether there will be consummation. I expect so because Mab will demand it.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Jim Butcher at Dragon Con 2025
« on: September 07, 2025, 02:20:10 AM »
To clarify, reddit report has Butcher saying that Nic would be "a" main villain to the end of the SERIES, and would be arround until near the end. Butcher wasn't speaking about Mirror Mirror specifically.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Harry Dresden's New Apprentice!!?!
« on: September 02, 2025, 12:31:32 AM »
Well, given Harry's status or lack thereof with the White Counsel, it's got to be someone already estranged from the White Counsel and/or has no interest or hope of getting in their good graces.
I also think that Butcher is unlikely to intro a major new character at this point.
Looking back, I'm going with Fitz from Ghost Story. Certainly seemed like that character was going somewhere. Took up a subplot and a lot of ink but then exited midway thru that book, and haven't seen him since. Fitz felt like groundwork, and you know how Butcher drops stuff in books from left field and then uses the stuff later.
There was some young girl that showed some talent - maybe in one of the short stories, don't remember her name - but I don't think Butcher is likely to give Dresden another female apprentice, another female with magical/supernatural abilities, or another female in his life - with Mab, Molly, Maggie, Bonnie, Laura, etc. Dresden has enough female bosses/allies/friendlies in his life he has to deal with basically every day. Also, with Thomas out of a picture for a while, Dresden needs a replacement male for some balance.
I also think that Butcher is unlikely to intro a major new character at this point.
Looking back, I'm going with Fitz from Ghost Story. Certainly seemed like that character was going somewhere. Took up a subplot and a lot of ink but then exited midway thru that book, and haven't seen him since. Fitz felt like groundwork, and you know how Butcher drops stuff in books from left field and then uses the stuff later.
There was some young girl that showed some talent - maybe in one of the short stories, don't remember her name - but I don't think Butcher is likely to give Dresden another female apprentice, another female with magical/supernatural abilities, or another female in his life - with Mab, Molly, Maggie, Bonnie, Laura, etc. Dresden has enough female bosses/allies/friendlies in his life he has to deal with basically every day. Also, with Thomas out of a picture for a while, Dresden needs a replacement male for some balance.
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DF Spoilers / Re: The Butcher Newsletter
« on: August 09, 2025, 12:01:24 PM »
Yes, to a fantasy writer known as Jennifer Blackstream (not sure if that's her legal name; would be surprised if it's her birth name).
A new edition of the newsletter was received on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
Key takeaway is that it asserts that Butcher is "writing like an absolute fiend" and that the following are scheduled for release in 2026: Twelve Months, Out Law (Dresden novella), and Mr. Petty (short story in the anthology Paranormal Payback). No release dates given in the newsletters for any of those (though obviously we know Twelve Months'). Newsletter hints that maybe there might be something more but I'll be hoping that means he's working on the Dresden casebook that follows Twelve Months.
Also a few AMA Qs and As but nothing of real significance.
A new edition of the newsletter was received on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
Key takeaway is that it asserts that Butcher is "writing like an absolute fiend" and that the following are scheduled for release in 2026: Twelve Months, Out Law (Dresden novella), and Mr. Petty (short story in the anthology Paranormal Payback). No release dates given in the newsletters for any of those (though obviously we know Twelve Months'). Newsletter hints that maybe there might be something more but I'll be hoping that means he's working on the Dresden casebook that follows Twelve Months.
Also a few AMA Qs and As but nothing of real significance.