Jim Butcher

Subterranean Press gives us a shipping update:

“Our shippers are making great progress and should have all individual orders for the limited edition of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files novelette, Backup, in the mails by the weekend, or Monday at the latest. Then they’ll turn their attention to shipping individual orders of the trade hardcover edition, before moving on to our backlog of lettered editions. Keep your eyes on this page for more updates!” — Subterranean Press

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At long last, we have the details for the remaining Dresden Files audio books!
Fans of the previous audio books will be thrilled to learn James Marsters has been signed to read the audios of
DEATH MASKS
BLOOD RITES
DEAD BEAT
PROVEN GUILTY
WHITE NIGHT
and
TURN COAT
Although our release dates are tentative/subject to change, the plan is to release the audios of PROVEN GUILTY, WHITE NIGHT, and TURN COAT simultaneous with the hardcover of TURN COAT in April 2009.
The audio of DEATH MASKS would be released simultaneous with our hardcover reissue in November 2009, while the audios of BLOOD RITES and DEAD BEAT would be released simultaneous with our hardcover reissue of BLOOD RITES in July 2010.
We’ll keep you updated on the release schedule if anything changes. We’ll also post links to the Jim-Butcher.com store as soon as they are available for preorder.
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The previous entry about Backup prompted a flurry of questions from fans! I spoke with Bill Schafer of Subterranean Press, and here is his response.
I asked:

Many fans are curious about “Backup” orders placed through Amazon and other online retailers. The other stores still list the release date as 10/31 or 11/1, whereas it looks like fans that ordered directly from you might receive their copies a week or more before then. Do you know if Amazon plans to ship out their orders as soon as they receive the books, or if they intend to wait until the set release date?
Also, your website mentioned that you guys spaced on creating a new design for the Limited Edition’s dust jacket, and we’ve gotten a bunch of questions as to what that entails! They’re curious about if there will be a dust jacket at all, or if you’ve considered having one designed after the fact and sending it separately to the fans that ordered the Limited Edition. They’re also curious as to whether the Lettered edition will have a separate cover design.

He replied:

Here’s how shipping is planned. We’ll be sending out all of the copies of BACKUP, trade and limited edition, ordered through us. After that, we have to ship out the five lettered editions sitting in our warehouses, because folks have been waiting so long for those. Following the lettered edition shipping, we’ll then ship the large online retailer and wholesaler orders for BACKUP — so indeed, those who ordered direct will receive their copies a bit before bookstores. I can’t speak for certain, but it’s likely Amazon, etc. will ship their copies as soon as they receive and process them, and not hold the books until the announced release date. They’ve not held books before, so I see no reason they’ll do so this time.
I haven’t considered having new dust jackets done for the limited edition of BACKUP. We’ll turn our thoughts to a way to make it up to fans after all the shipping is done. The lettered edition will indeed have a dustjacket on it, the same one as the rest of the copies.
While you’re reminding folks of stuff, you might want to mention that we will NOT be filling large online retailer or wholesaler orders for STORM FRONT. Oh, and on the plus side, we’re already working on FOOL MOON and GRAVE PERIL. We have fully designed versions of those and are sending them out to be proofed, and talking to Vincent Chong about when he can fit illustrating them into his schedule.

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Subterranean Press has a very exciting announcement! Backup, the Thomas-centric novelette illustrated by Mike Mignola, is in stock and shipping!
From the SubPress website:

Please note: Including the Limited Edition copies, we have nearly 10,000 copies of Jim Butcher’s new Dresden Files novelette, Backup, to ship. It’s going to take us a few weeks to get everything out the door, at least. We’d appreciate if everyone would refrain from emailing about their order status until the end of October, so we can focus on packing and getting books out the door. One further note, and an apology. We completely flaked and did not have a separate dust jacket designed for the limited edition. Our apologies to everyone.

For those unfamiliar with the project, here’s Backup‘s blurb:

Let’s get something clear right up front.
I’m not Harry Dresden.
Harry’s a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He’s Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He’ll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences-and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being.
I’ll be damned if I know how.
But then, I’ll be damned regardless.
My name is Thomas Raith, and I’m a monster.
So begins Backup, a twelve thousand word novelette set in Jim Butcher’s ultra-popular Dresden Files series. This time Harry’s in trouble he knows nothing about, and it’s up to his big brother Thomas to track him down and solve those little life-threatening difficulties without his little brother even noticing.

Backup will be available via Subterranean Press in three editions:
Lettered: 26 signed lettered copies, specially bound, housed in a custom traycase (Sold Out)
Limited: 500 signed numbered copies, bound in leather (Sold Out)
Trade: full cloth bound hardcover copies: $20 (Buy it from the Jim-Butcher.com store!)
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It’s time to pre-order the exclusive comics shop variant of the Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle trade! (View the cover here!) Welcome to the Jungle is an original graphic novel that takes place before the events of Storm Front, written by Jim Butcher, pencilled by Ardian Syaf, and published by the Dabel Brothers. This trade compiles all four issues of the thrilling series.
Welcome to the Jungle will be available in two editions this October. The first, released through Del Rey, will be available at your local bookstores and comics stores, as well as online retailers like Amazon. The second, released through Diamond, will only be available in comics shops. It’s the Dabels’ gesture of thanks to comics shops for helping to make the series such a rousing success!
Supplies of the variant edition are limited, so it’s very important to ask your local comics shop to reserve you a copy ahead of time. Find comics shops near you with Diamond’s Comic Store Locator tool.