Jim Butcher

The eagerly awaited new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series.

HARRY DRESDEN LIVES!!!

After being murdered by a mystery assailant, navigating his way through the realm between life and death, and being brought back to the mortal world, Harry realizes that maybe death wasn’t all that bad. Because he is no longer Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard.

He is now Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. After Harry had no choice but to swear his fealty, Mab wasn’t about to let something as petty as death steal away the prize she had sought for so long. And now, her word is his command, no matter what she wants him to do, no matter where she wants him to go, and no matter who she wants him to kill.

Guess which Mab wants first?

Of course, it won’t be an ordinary, everyday assassination. Mab wants her newest minion to pull off the impossible: kill an immortal. No problem there, right? And to make matters worse, there exists a growing threat to an unfathomable source of magic that could land Harry in the sort of trouble that will make death look like a holiday.

Beset by enemies new and old, Harry must gather his friends and allies, prevent the annihilation of countless innocents, and find a way out of his eternal subservience before his newfound powers claim the only thing he has left to call his own…

His soul.

To be released in hardcover from Penguin/Roc publishing, November 27, 2012.

At present, it’s only preorderable from our store through Barnes and Noble, but you should be able to preorder it through IndieBound or Amazon in the next few days.

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We have three awesome events to announce today!

First, the paperback edition of Ghost Story hits stores today, including an exclusive two-chapter peek of Jim’s next Dresden novel, Cold Days! You can nab a copy from our store. Penguin still isn’t quite ready to announce a release date for Cold Days, but we’ll let you know as soon as there’s news to report.

Second, Jim will join Emma Bull, Diana Rowland, and host Pat Rothfuss on the first episode of the new Geek and Sundry show, The Story Board! Watch their live G+ Hangout at 8pm PST TONIGHT! That’s 11pm EST, 10pm Central, 9pm Mountain, and 4am GMT.

Third, issue #7 (of 8) of the Fool Moon graphic novel adaptation comes out on Wednesday. Find one near you at comicshoplocator.com. You can also check out a five-page preview at Comic Book Resources.

Discuss this news on Jim’s forum here.

Mmmm, homemade fruit rollups!Also, COLD DAYS is done.

— Jim Butcher (@longshotauthor) July 30, 2012

Jim has sent the last chapter of “Cold Days” to his betas! Hopefully, we’ll be able to follow up this post with a release date announcement very soon!

For a limited time, cover artist Chris McGrath is offering mugs bearing cover art from White Night, Side Jobs, and Ghost Story. Get your coffee fix in a mug blazoned with the mug of Chicago’s only professional wizard!

Also, fans can look forward to two Dresden short stories in the next two weeks! “I Was a Teenage Bigfoot,” which takes place around the time of Dead Beat, comes out on May 29th in Kevin J. Anderson’s Blood Lite 3: Aftertaste. “Bigfoot on Campus,” set a few months before Changes, hits June 5th in P.N. Elrod’s Hex Appeal. The third (or rather, first) story in Jim’s Bigfoot trilogy, “B is for Bigfoot,” comes out at the end of August. You can pre-order them all from Jim’s store!

April Fool!

We hope you enjoyed our little prank yesterday. While the trilogy of “Bigfoot as Harry’s client” short stories is indeed on the horizon, there is no spinoff paranormal romance series in the pipeline. Jim is hard at work on Cold Days! It doesn’t have a release date yet, but you can be certain, we’ll be shouting it from the hilltops as soon as it’s been set!

Take the edge off the wait with the upcoming Bigfoot trio:

“I Was A Teenage Bigfoot” — from Blood Lite 3: Aftertaste, edited by Kevin J. Anderson.
Takes place circa Dead Beat.
Released 5/29/2012.

“Bigfoot on Campus” — from Hex Appeal, edited by P.N. Elrod.
Takes place between Turn Coat and Changes.
Released 6/05/2012.

“B is for Bigfoot” — from Under My Hat: Tales From the Cauldron, edited by Jonathan Strahan.
Takes place between Fool Moon and Grave Peril.
Released 8/28/2012.

There is also a Molly POV short story in “Dangerous Women,” edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Duzois, but its title and release date haven’t been announced yet. The story is set between Ghost Story and Cold Days.

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