Author: priscellie

Priscilla Spencer has been Jim's creative consultant since 2007. In addition to managing content for Jim-Butcher.com and its social media channels, she beta-reads all of Jim's works, serves as a thematic consultant on the graphic novels and role playing games, and illustrates the maps for his books. The whole "Year of Dresden" thing is largely her baby. Her latest claim to fame is directing the official book trailers for Peace Talks and Battle Ground. In her professional life, Priscilla is a Producer, Writer, Photographer, and Fantasy Map Illustrator working towards a career in producing TV. She enjoys musical theatre, gluten-free cooking, sci-fi/fantasy, and weightlifting. She aspires to travel the world and pet every dog.

Birthday Booksigning

Contributors of the upcoming short-story collection MANY BLOODY RETURNS: Tales of Birthdays with Bite will celebrate the book’s “birthday” at bookstore events across the country on September 4, the day the book is officially released to the public. Booksigning events have been scheduled in five cities, and birthday cake will be included in the celebration.
Jim Butcher will be appearing in Kansas City, MO, at the Barnes & Noble in Country Club Plaza.
Kansas City, MO * 7:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
Country Club Plaza
420 W 47th Street
816-753-1313
The other four parties are as follows:
Toni L.P. Kelner and Christopher Golden
Framingham, MA * 7:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
1 Worcester Road
508-628-5567
Charlaine Harris, P.N. Elrod, and Rachel Caine
Dallas, TX * 7:00 PM
BARNES AND NOBLE
616 Preston Royal Shopping Ctr
214-363-0924
Elaine Viets
Delray Beach, FL * 7:00 PM
MURDER ON THE BEACH
273 Pineapple Grove Way (at NE 2nd Ave.)
561-279-7790
Carolyn Haines
Mobile, AL * 6:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
3250 Airport Blvd B-30
251-450-0084
A fun and unique story collection, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner, MANY BLOODY RETURNS contains thirteen all new, never before published stories, each one offering a fresh take on the concept of what birthdays mean to the undead. “Toni and I had some wonderful planning sessions about the theme for the anthology,” writes Charlaine Harris in the introduction to the book. “We decided to pick two apparently unrelated concepts—vampires (the dead) and birthdays (normally considered a celebration of life)—and see what different ways some very talented writers could combine the two.” Contributors include: Charlaine Harris, Toni L.P. Kelner, Christopher Golden, Bill Crider, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, P.N. Elrod, Rachel Caine, Jeanne C. Stein, Tanya Huff, Carolyn Haines, Tate Hallaway, and Elaine Viets. Harris and Kelner were careful to choose an even balance of traditional mystery and traditional fantasy writers; the result is an outstanding anthology and “a fantastic introduction for new readers to some of the best-known writers in the field” (RT Book Reviews).
MANY BLOODY RETURNS: Tales of Birthdays with Bite, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner, will be published in hardcover by Ace Books on September 4, 2007 ($24.95/ISBN: 978-0-441-01522-1).
Discuss this event on the forums here!

Dresden Files TV Show Canceled

We finally have our answer, and it’s just as we suspected: the Dresden Files TV show has been canceled. Read more about the decision at TV Guide.com.

While we wish SciFi could have decided differently, we’re still grateful for the twelve great episodes that aired earlier this year. Largely thanks to the TV show, book sales tripled, and no doubt more new fans will continue to discover the series through reruns and the DVDs. Speaking of which, the DVDs will be released this Tuesday! Buy them here on Amazon.com.

Additionally, fans of Paul Blackthorne will be cheered to learn that he has joined the cast of ABC’s Big Shots.

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Addendum, 2014: This show was canceled in 2007. There’s no bringing it back. The rights have reverted to Jim.

Are you selling me on eBay? and other news

Jim has donated an enticing set of Dresden and Alera goodies for a charity event supporting the American Cancer Society! It includes:

  • the audiobooks of Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, and Summer Knight, read by James Marsters.
  • autographed copies of Death Masks, Blood Rites, and Dead Beat in paperback
  • autographed copies of the three Codex Alera novels: Furies of Calderon, Academ’s Fury, and Cursor’s Fury
  • an autographed copy of No Regrets by Shannon K. Butcher, Jim’s wife.

Place your bids here! All proceeds from the auction will go to the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life.
We also now have a release date for My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon, sequel anthology to P.N. Elrod’s My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding. You can read Jim’s Dresden Files short story “Heorot” on December 26, 2007, right in time for those lovely after-Christmas sales! Preorder it on Amazon here, and discuss it on the forums here.
Finally, many of you have written in, pointing us to this article from The Edmonton Journal. It states that Edmonton is slated to be the new home of either The Dresden Files or the Showtime series Masters of Horror, though the decision had not yet been made as to which one. Well, while we’d like to stay optimistic, it looks like we may have a disappointment coming our way. SyFy Portal correspondent Michael Hinman reports that industry rumor points toward Masters of Horror being the likely winner. Hinman assures us that “Nothing is locked into stone yet, and no official announcement is expected until next week,” but it doesn’t look good. Discuss these stories on the forums here.