Jim-Butcher.Com will be running an extended preview of the next Codex Alera book, Academ’s Fury, over the next five weeks. Every Tuesday, we’ll be posting a new chapter or two from the book on this page until early April, at which point you’ll have a full seven chapters (plus a Prologue) in your hot sweaty digital hands!
Our schedule at this time is:
Today – The Prologue
March 15th – Chapters 1 & 2
March 22nd – Chapters 3 & 4
March 29th – Chapters 5 & 6
April 5th – Chapter 7
Stay tuned!
Introducing: Books by Jim’s Friends
Hi all,
We’re looking at adding a section to the store of this site focusing on books written by members of the Jim Butcher fan community. If you have a suggestion of a book we should add, drop us a line (or comment on this entry) and let us know!
Today’s inaugural entry is C.E. Murphy’s Urban Shaman, due out in June of 2005.
Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt.
No worries. No pressure. Nevermind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams.
And if that’s not bad enough, in the three years Joanne’s been a cop, she’s never seen a dead body–but she’s just come across her second in three days.
It’s been a bitch of a week.
And it isn’t over yet.
Additions to Jim’s Con Schedule
Jim will join folks at Conquest36 from May 27-29 2005 at the Airport Hilton Hotel in Kansas City, MO.
Jim will also attend Lunacon in March of 2006 (yes, 2006; they plan way ahead!), at the Sheraton Meadowlands, New York.
These and other items can be found on our calendar page.
Jim Updates Us
Hey all,
Just wanted to drop some updates on you all. We’ll start with the most often asked about:
TELEVISION
No new word to report, except that the project is still moving forward and still looking strong. I have read a draft or two of the proposals flitting back and forth, and they bear a pleasingly strong resemblence to the novels, and may include dispensing of “Erik” Dresden for Harry Dresden.
(Which makes me happy. The most prominent Eric in my life was a high-school rival for the affections of a girl. He 1) egged my car and 2) got the girl. All in all, it worked out better for me that way, but my car’s paint is STILL stained with eggs.)
SCI-FI BOOK CLUB OMNIBUS
The first three books of the series (STORM FRONT, FOOL MOON, GRAVE PERIL) have been picked up by the Science Fiction Book Club for publication in an omnibus edition (in hardback). They are putting a rush on this one, and are going to be out in March or April, in order to be available before Dead Beat hits the shelves. No word on books 4-6, but I assume that if the first omnibus sells well, the second volume will follow.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDITIONS
If I haven’t mentioned it, the Dresden Files are now being published in Russian, Polish, Chinese (specifically Mandarin, I think), Czech and we are now in talks for a German edition as well, which look very promising.
ROLE PLAYING GAME
You know all about that one. 🙂
I’ll share more as I hear it, as always.
Calendar Update – Writer’s Weekend
Jim is scheduled to appear as a Guest of Honor for the 2005 Writer’s Weekend in Seattle, June 9-12, 2005. The web site is at www.WritersWeekend.com.