Gonna be hardback only, at first.  Those are likely still being produced.

Jim is holding what the industry calls a "trade paperback" or sometimes an "early reader copy".  There will be a few hundred of these sent to book reviewers / etc, so the reviews can drop appropriately... Day-1, or week-before, or whatever the reviewers NDA says.

Thanks, that makes much more sense. Of course we all will be buying hardcovers.

I wonder how nearby to a GRRM book Peace Talks will be in size. We don't know how big the font used in this advanced reader copy Jim is reading was. ^^

Yes, I'm agreeing with you.

I know, I just wanted to expand a bit on it.

I guess I am saying, is it fair to measure him this way? He has more than unusual and difficult challenges. He absolutely could improve and do better, and have made better choices. But he isn't perfect or infallible and he doesn't know the future. If you want to judge him so, perhaps reread the passage in Skin Games where Harry first talks to Michael after the first encounter with Tessa and reexamine the question in your thoughts. Michael says it best.

I don't know. The point is, there's normally a year between books. Now, I think we can cut Harry at least some slack for the last years, given that Jim has very carefully locked him away from the outside world after Changes and only with Skin Game he has had a chance for a few months to be in human civilization again. And I presume that much of that time, until Peace Talks, will have been spent hunting down Fomori and shutting down their operations in Chicago and the surrounding area (I wonder how many buildings have gone up in flame during that time), so we probaby should cut him some slack there, too. With so much to catch up on and not knowing what has happened between Ivy and Kincaid, it's easy to see why he wouldn't call, although he really owes Ivy one for what she did for him in Changes to save Maggie.

But over the course of the years before, Harry has shown signs of not keeping in contact with people who care about him. I think Peace Talks will be another point of change for him (obviously) and I hope he gets better about it.

Oof. And I'm pretty sure Harry hasn't called once since coming back. He's just like that, not calling on his friends for years on end.

Seems there are more similarities between Harry Dresden and Harry Potter than I ever thought.  Morgan kinda-sorta is Severus Snape to Harry.

Now, if Jim ever shows a flashback where a giant man on a motorcycle approaches Harry at the orphanage and tells him "Yer a Wizard, 'arry!".... 

Now this is the type of hype I can get behind. 

Coming back one more time to that particular panel, one of the things Jim said was that he writes very detailed chapter outlines and then this makes it easy for him to write that chapter in one go.

I wonder if he ever has published one of those detailed chapter outlines, because I think it would help me a lot with my process. If any anybody has a link to that, I'd really appreciate it if s/he could share it (if it exists at all, of course).

If there is no such published chapter outline, then if there is to be a Peace Talks AMA on Reddit, like the one he did for the release of Brief Cases, I think I will ask if he can publish a detailed chapter outline for one of his prior books (or for Peace Talks, after publication) on the website.