Jim at Eastercon in London Heathrow, April 3-6 2015

[Priscellie]

In 2014, Jim crossed the Pacific to visit Australia, and in 2015, he'll traverse the Atlantic for the British National Science Fiction Convention!

http://www.dysprosium.org.uk/

Dysprosium: Eastercon 2015
3-6 April 2015
The Park Inn, London Heathrow, UK

Jim Butcher
Seanan McGuire
Herr Döktor
Caroline Mullan

Adult attending: £60
Supporting: £25
Junior (12-17): £25
Child (6-11): £15
Infant (0-5): £5
Apocryphal: £1


We have a tentative schedule for Jim’s events. However, please note that these are subject to change!

Friday, 3 pm – 4pm: Opening Ceremony

Friday, 6:45 pm – 7:45 pm: The Ultimate Urban Fantasy Panel. “Something nasty in your neighbourhood? Everybody wants to go to the big cities why not the supernatural?” with Charles Stross, Mike Carey, CE Murphy and Alice Lawson as Moderator.

Saturday, 11:15 am – 1215 pm: Watching The Detectives: “Private dicks, gumshoes, shamus, pinkertons, consulting detectives we love them all but aren’t they even better with a supernatural second job?.” With Seanan McGuire and Mike Carey, Alice Lawson Moderating.

Saturday, 3 pm – 4 pm: Jim Butcher GoH Interview with Charles Stross, followed by an Author signing.

Saturday, 6:30 pm -7:30 pm: The Game of the Book: “Adaption of Games from original source material how true can you be? Can you keep it playable?” with Marcus Rowland, Ann Stokes and Tom Parker.

Sunday, 11:15 am – 12:15 pm: Truth, Justice and The Home Offce: “We’ve all seen how supernatural and paranormal threats are handled by the hero. But how do the police and other authorities deal with them? Normal interrogation is difficult with a Troll, and the CSI team isn’t normally au fait with magical effects. There isn’t always a convenient Wizard in the local phonebook.The authorities can’t just ignore these things, but some modifications to their usual methods may be needed.”

Sunday, 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm: V is for Vampire: “The perennial favourite monster still isn’t going away, and keeps coming back in a new but irritating form.” With Freda Warrington, Charles Stross and Sam Stone (Telos Publishing) Moderating.

Monday, 11:15 am – 12:15 pm: Faeries. “The not so nice creatures at the bottom of the Garden, from the Dresden Files and October Daye to Lost Girl”. With Seanan McGuire.

Monday, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Closing Ceremony.

[CurlyKirsty]

Wow, that is great news, been begging for Jim to come over for ages.  Handy for me being so close to the hotel that I don't have to travel as he is virtually on my doorstep.  He can come round for a cup of tea if he wants.  LOL 

[ivanpastore]

Aweeeeeeeesome what great news. I can't wait!!! 

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

Gosh. I hope he enjoys; Eastercon used to be my home convention, for basically the latter half of the nineties, and I always had a great time with it.

[LavinChen]

That's awesome news! Only a 2 hour flight from Munich to London! I'm so gonna be there...

[Magnus]

Fun, This sounds like something I might attend.

[moon]

Me and my friend clary are planning to go...

[auntsarentgents]

Just to let everyone know:  We now have online registration up and running 

Currently weekend membership is £60 for an adult, rising to £70 after 18th August 2014.

Hope to see many of you there!

[Priscellie]

Yup! Buy memberships here: https://www.dysprosium.org.uk/join/

[Romulan Cmdr]

Wow!  I hope someone does the British Warden from the books.
That would be brilliant!

[PilgrimDan]

I can dress like John Steed - best of Bond Street, bowler and brolly, yes?
Mind you, I'd look like a prat, but I can always give it a shot.

[Magnus]

Fun, This sounds like something I might attend.

And I'm pretty sure I will now that I bought a membership for 60£ before it increases to 70£. Now I have something to look forward to next year.

[PilgrimDan]

Just booked my membership. I think I will book my hotel later, like September.

[frankcesca]

I can't go. I'll be a few days away from having a baby!

(if all goes according to due date)

If anyone's listening, can Jim pleeeeease consider a stopover in Berlin?

[magnuskn]

Crossposting this from a thread I started on the main spoiler board. I hope someone can ask Jim this at Eastercon. I'm putting the question behind spoiler brackets, since I don't want anybody to accidentally spoil himself for the end of Skin Game.

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Hi Jim! Thank you for writing the Dresden Files! You are my favorite author and the only writer I know who consistently has gotten ever more awesome with each released book.

My question needs a little set-up, so please bear with me.

Over the last four books, the urgency of the plot and the intensity of the relationships between the characters have all accelerated considerably.  Due to your writing policy of having most of an entire year pass between books, however, all those elements have had to be put on hold for Harry between each of those books, leading to a series of reasons why he can’t contact his friends for a full year. You broke with that mold at the end of Skin Game, with Harry being in a position where he is with friends and family and apparently free to act without too many constraints upon him.

My question is: Going forward, how are you going to resolve this tension between having both an accelerated plot and intensified character interactions and your policy of the one year gap between books, without losing crucial character scenes and plot elements to the time periods between each book?