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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #390 on: June 16, 2019, 06:59:29 PM »
I am very grateful that books like the Dresden Files exist, I can read them over and over and they are still great.
Mr Butcher, you have created something amazing and I admire your work.

... and now I want the book.  ;D

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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #391 on: June 16, 2019, 09:11:56 PM »
Third.
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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #392 on: June 17, 2019, 01:14:20 AM »
Fourth
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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #393 on: June 17, 2019, 06:27:20 PM »
well saw it while out getting a coffee and went back  to the office to post and see its not news anymore :) hooray hurrah!

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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #394 on: June 17, 2019, 06:29:23 PM »
Oh wait, this might be news... its done? Per twitter.

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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #395 on: June 17, 2019, 06:29:57 PM »
Oh wait, amendment:
He is doing the wrap-up chapter now.

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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #396 on: June 17, 2019, 06:31:13 PM »
Compels solve everything!

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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #397 on: June 17, 2019, 06:59:43 PM »
From Jim's Twitter feed.
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Finished the finale of Peace Talks this morning.Just the wrap-up chapter to go. :) News regarding pub dates as I get it.

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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #398 on: June 17, 2019, 07:47:24 PM »
Yay!!!  :D :D :D :D :D
Missing you, Md 

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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #399 on: June 17, 2019, 08:03:35 PM »
The denouement chapter will probably only take a couple to three days for Jim to knock out.

In two and a half weeks Jim will be in Utah for Spikecon or Westercon72.  (I think Westercon is part of Spikecon, but that's a minor detail.)  I will try to record any panels I go to where Jim is the sole speaker and try to make it to any other panels he is a part of.  I'll let everyone know when I can post to YouTube.  If Jim says something really interesting about Peace Talks or other upcoming DF books; beyond answering questions like "Why did you set the Dresden Files in Chicago", I'll create a thread here so we can discuss first.  For fans of the Cinder Spires, if Jim says anything interesting about that series I'll post it in that part of the forum.

I'm really glad Jim won't have to face any, "How much longer?" questions.  Now that I think about it, if Penguin doesn't announce a release by the July 4th weekend I'm sure someone will want to know when it will be released, even if Jim doesn't know.     
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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #400 on: June 18, 2019, 05:07:18 PM »
So, you think that Peace Talks could come out on 4th of July?

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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #401 on: June 18, 2019, 05:10:41 PM »
Just the release date.

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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #402 on: June 18, 2019, 05:20:16 PM »
So, you think that Peace Talks could come out on 4th of July?

No, that would be too fast. I don't know how long the editing process will be but maybe he has posted a clue in twitter.

See https://www.paranetonline.com/index.php/topic,53142.0.html

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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #403 on: June 18, 2019, 08:13:16 PM »
The soonest possible date is probably November or December but that would involve the publisher spending a few buckets of extra money, parallel edits and copy edits, a lot of *really* tight deadlines and betting there won't be major revisions of the manuscript. I think the publication process can be condensed down to about three months (which I think is the plan for GRRM's book) but that assumes writing and editing can be done in parallel. Given that the Dresden Files are a single POV in rigid chronological order, I don't think that can be done.*

More likely is spring or summer of next year, which is what most of me hopes they'll do. It tends to make for a better book and is less likely to burn out the author. I'd rather Jim get back into the rhythm of regular releases than go into a major editing crunch just to get the book out a few months earlier.

*I don't know how Jim's writing process fits into editing or what state his submitted manuscript is in. But what I've heard about the more common methods is that edits in later chapters can often mean revising previous chapters to make it look like they knew what they were doing all along.

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Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« Reply #404 on: June 18, 2019, 08:47:04 PM »
Yes! We are finally on the final track. I hope it's more of a winter release than a next summer release.

Also, fifth'ed. I think I'll start soon on my fifth (or is it the sixth already?) read-through, although currently books 1-7 are with a friend.