Chapter 64!!!!

"We won’t have a release date until Jim finished the manuscript, but hopefully that will be soon, so look for an announcement in July!"

OK 

I will do you one better. Jim Butcher has died and the person we see walking around is his look-alike stunt double. Unfortunately, the double can't write. There will be no new book.

No, the person walking around is probably a zygon with all his knowledge and talents. So must be kept alive somewhere, otherwise the zygon wouldn't have access to his brain. Peace Talks is taking so long, because Jim is not cooperating and hoping for years that someone finally notices that he is not there.

If I did that someone would suggest that it wasn't good enough.  To be truly accurate we would need to compare the average number of words per chapter Jim has used over the past five or six books.  Plus, it wouldn't hurt to know the highest number of words in a chapter Jim has used per book and see if that number has changed significantly over time.  We could also do a character count per chapter, and divide that by the number of words per chapter to see if Jim's vocabulary for Harry and the other characters, plus the description of people, things, the environment, events and emotions have become more complex, meaning Jim is using bigger words, not just more of them.  Of course, some people might think that last suggestion is a bit too much, but aren't you a little bit curious to find out?     

 
If I were an author and reading that comment, I would rewrite an least my first chapter using extra long words. And then I would post it on my website as preview oft my newest work.
All the while evil laughing.

"As of May 29th, 2019, the current draft of the novel is up to chapter 62."

Hear, hear!

 The new book is called Storm Cursed. Thats number 11 and was published may 2019.

Can’t wait for PT!!! And that Christmas Eve short story makes me wonder what the heck happens in PT.

But you will have to.  Just enjoy some other books in the meantime.

I have started reading another series with lots oft books. And when I'm done and there is still no Peace Talks, then I have planed to re-read another series.

And when the book is out, I most certainly will read it in two days and nights (hope I won't have to work ). Afterwards I will sit there staring into a void and decide to simply read it again, this time more slowly. And after that... nothing. 

... until Kinkaid announces he has to kill Dresden, because that was what he was hired to do and obviously didn't succeed with his first attempt.