It's been a while with no updates on the DC Q&A, so I did most of it today. I haven't transcribed the answer to every question, but the ones I haven't transcribed were about things other than the plot of Jim's books. In those places, I've written down the questions and the approximate time at which they occur, on which video segment. Eventually, I'll go back and transcribe those, too, unless someone else has a burning desire to do so. *looks around hopefully* These questions have a "...." above and below them, to separate them from the others.
I've done my best to transcribe every answer word for word, paraphrasing only when I really needed to in order to make the answer intelligible, because sometimes he gets interrupted by the audience. When I'm paraphrasing, I enclose the statements with brackets: [ ].
Q&A with Jim Butcher at a Barnes & Noble in Washington, D.C. August 1, 2011 - Part 1Link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wKr8UERptoQ: Does Ivy know everything Bob knows?A: Man, talk about an obscure question. Probably the vast majority of it, yeah, although Ivy's more oriented toward things that are happening on Earth, and Bob has sources all over. [messing with the microphone] So, I would say it's more an issue of, they have different fields of information available to them. They don't, like, have a comparable database.
Q: So Ivy doesn't get what Bob gets as soon as Bob gets it?A: No.
Q: What is the publishing goal for Cold Days?A: I don't know. It's due next June, I would anticipate it would be around this time. I've got the first sentence done, though, and that's the hard part. Now I've just got like 150,000 more words to go.
Q: Have we seen the last of Lasciel?A: No, her story's not over. Actually, she's mentioned in
Ghost Story, although not by name.
Q: What's with the hat on all the covers of the books?A: The art department at Penguin thought that was the perfect visual shorthand for wizard detective. 'Cause he's got the wizard stick and the detective hat. So that's why they've done it.
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What's a typical day of writing for me? ~3:01, Part 1....
How come Marsters isn't doing the voice acting on the audio of GS? ~3:50, Part 1....
How much magical theory do you read? ~4:50, Part 1....
Q: What happened to Toot-toot? Is he getting pizza?A: I only get to do this to the faces of the readers every so often: [sing-song]I'm not gonna tell you![/sing-song] 'Cause it's way more fun to read in the book.
Q: --he gets pizza, though, right?A: --maybe, maybe not. You don't know yet. But the next book is going to be much concerned with faeries, so definitely Toot-toot is going to be participating.
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Do I play the Dresden Files RPG?....
Q: Who's first on Mab's hit list?A: That'll be another "I'm not gonna tell you," because we'll find out in Chapter One of the next book. As soon as I write it.
Q: How close is your personality to Harry's personality?A: Harry is the guy I would like to think I would be if someone handed me his kind of power-- but I think I would really end up one of those giggling villains. Actually, we're not terribly similar. We share a taste in T-shirts and Burger King, that's about it.
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Q: Am I planning on writing any more material in the near future for the Dresden Files RPG? ~8:01, Part 1A: Maybe, I have no objection to writing more material-- [but time constraints make it seem unlikely for the near future.]
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Q: You've established in the books that Morgan's sword is the one used for executions in the books. Does it predate Luccio?A: No. Morgan's sword was used because Morgan was the guy who would do it and not have nightmares afterwards. Or, you know actually, point of fact, he probably did have nightmares afterwards, but he would tell everybody that he didn't. He was one of those guys who was very big on the, "don't ever give somebody an order that you wouldn't follow yourself," sort of line of thought. So, lopping off heads? Sure, absolutely, somebody has to do it. That's the kind of guy he was. I mean, kind of a jerk, but he had some redeeming features, too.