Just watched the Daniel Greene interview.  Easy to miss, but Jim said that he hoped to finish the 2nd Cinder Spires by the end of the summer, so if he keeps to that schedule we may have that by spring next year.  And therefore he could be starting the 18th Dresden by this autumn.  Which would be nice.  Feeling like a feast after famine is possible!

I just finished reading The Oversight Trilogy by Charlie Fletcher (The Oversight, The Paradox, The Remnant).  Absolutely loved them.  Set in London in early 1800's revolving around The Oversight, a group of humans with supernatural abilities who act as a sort of peacekeeping force between the supernatural and normal humans.

Very well written with some very imaginative takes on the genre.  Gone straight to the top of my can't wait for the next instalment list, even, at the risk of blasphemy, ahead of Peace Talks.  Cannot recommend highly enough.

I'm a complete amateur regarding posting links or anything like that but there are some vids of Jim from the PhoenixCom on youtube where he discusses progress on Peace Talks and his future writing plans.  The main one I focused on was posted by Priscilla Spencer (maybe somebody less inept than me could put a link on here?).

If you want to skip to the meat of that discussion it kicks in at 13:12.  In summary he says;
- he needs to get a suitable workplace up and running, but he is hoping to move into his new house on 30th June, whereupon he will attempt to complete the following;
  - First a short story told from the POV's of Harry, Maggie and Mouse about Maggie's first trip to a zoo.  Upon completion, that and all short stories not in Side Jobs will be released as Brief Cases.  No timetable but clear implication that the publishers want it out soon,
  - Then Peace Talks, followed by Cinder Spires 2, followed by first Maggie young adult novel, followed by Mirror Mirror.  Again no timelines but he sounded very confident that once he has his writing zone back in place he will get his mojo back.

Feeling quite positive after watching that!

Edit: just noticed there is an entire thread on this on the spoilers page so please ignore this dumb post.  Dagnabbit! :-)