Your right, Molly does deserve better than to be stuck in Winter not able to be with the man she loves. That's why a relationship between Harry and Molly will start to happen soon and love that blossoms between them will break her free.

"The hottest romance began in the coldest of places"....should be a byline for a bodice ripper authored by Bob.

I'm also on Team Molly.

It was, however a freely given act of love to someone in great pain.

Molly may be better then Harry deserves.

  Here is something a little more interesting further down in that article, bolding mine

Mighty prince?  Could that mean Starborn as in Harry?

Another name for Mab in the Dresden verse is the queen of air and darkness. So maybe Harry is the power of the air.

The word insult implies some form of suffering.

The first googled internet definition which provides the explicit definition of insult as a noun is "a disrespectful or scornfully abusive remark or action." Offhand, I can't think of an instance of 'insult' as being used to imply suffering. Although, the definition did reference injury to the body as a use of 'insult.'

That post has been going up in relation to Dresden Files for years. The flip side of that post is just like the author isn't our bitch we aren't their bitch either.

I started reading George Martin's books before the HBO's series came out. I then quit reading them because it took too long between books and I didn't remember what happened in the books that I hadn't read for years. So George Martin wasn't my bitch, and I wasn't his either, and as a consequence I'll never buy another one of his books again. Not angry, just lost interest and don't care enough to reread the series. Similarly, I thought Patrick Rothfuss' books were ok but not great. I don't know what all the fuss was about. I might read the last book when it comes out, but I doubt it. I didn't like his books enough to reread them for the third book. If the third book had of come out years ago I probably would of bought it.

The marketplace punishes authors for not publishing books for years. Even rereading Neil gaiman's post, yeah the author isn't the reader's slave but how many years have to pass before the wait between books is an insult to the fans?

I just finished 5 ebooks that are the free type with kindle unlimited that's the Montague and Strong series. Worth a try if you have kindle unlimited. It has good and bad things about it, but I liked it. The character references that wizard in Chicago (meaning Harry Dresden) but he also references a wizardly type in Saint Louis in the same sentence. Anyone know who that is?

Anyway, the main character is cursed to immortality by Shiva, has a time stopping sigil on his wrist that causes a dominatrix librarian dressed lady luck to appear and slap him around a bit, a pet hellhound, and is best friend's with a mage who he operates a detective agency with.

flying peach,

Here's my difficulty with your position "owed" implies a legal obligation.  I just don't see that.  We were given a book that is part of a series.  We paid for the book and read the book with full knowledge of the fact that is a part of a series.  There is no guarantee the series will ever be complete.  There is no obligation by the author to complete the series.  That might make the writer who chooses to hang up his pen and become a... blacksmith a bit of a jerk but there is nothing we can do about that other than kvetch that it was not fair that we didn't get the "whole story". 

My problem is that when people claim they are "owed" something by a writer they really don't know what they are talking about.  When you buy a book, you get the book that you bought, and nothing more.  There is no legally binding promise to finish the full story.

I wasn't planning on posting here again in this thread (I edited this to add in this thread), but if someone writes a thoughtful response it deserves a response. In fact, I feel like I OWE it to you. Har, har, har.

It's been a long week and this will be a bit stream of consciousness so if you''ll tolerate me I'll set forth my position.

Owed isn't strictly limited to a legal obligation. It infers an obligation, whether of a legal nature or not. For instance, a person can owe a responsibility or duty (if you have a legal background and a happy contrarian streak right not you are thinking "but what about legally imposed duties and contractual duties" and my response is "I'm excluding the legal theory"). It's even possible to "owe it to yourself" as well as "owe it to your children." Or think about the common phrases of "owe an apology," or "owe an explanation" or even the phrase "owe common courtesy."

I believe that as a matter of courtesy a writer of a trilogy or series owes the reader a responsibility to make a reasonable effort to finish the trilogy or series. The following events would be a noninclusive list of things that I would consider being valid reasons for the writer to give up on a series: the publisher decided not to continue the series, the writer got sick, the writer had things come up in his personal life and wasn't in the right of state of mind to write anymore, or the writer couldn't feed himself with the money he was earning and couldn't write anymore. 

If Jim never finishes the series because he had stuff come up, that's cool. He seems like a nice guy and I think he probably would have made a reasonable effort to finish the series. I'll be disappointed, but it won't be the first writer I had fade out on a series.

No actually that's just how I communicate, are you currently attacking me???

I wasn't trying to attack you. I rewrote several things and deleted several things in an effort to make sure that it was a disagreement rather than a personal attack. I'll continue to make an effort to respectfully disagree.

I was stating pretty pure facts there Bub.

What facts are you referring to?

I was relating my personal opinion regarding not just this but all bandwagon auctioning and pointing out, that the original 'attack on Jim for not caring was backed by real fan's knowing that's not what's going.

I don't know what this means.

If you are saying that the op said that Jim doesn't care about his fans and that you believe Jim cares about his fans, then I have no argument with that. Jim seems like a nice guy. I don't believe it correlates with the portion of your post I originally quoted though. 

Don’t obfuscate this. JB has given up on us. It is what it is. The bs anthologies are nothing more than an (poor) attempt to keep readers happy. Write a novel if you care so much about your fans. I show up to work everyday just like you.

Treat the series as having ended with Changes. It was a great book with a great fight scene and wrapped up a lot of threads. Maybe in twenty years you can check if Jim ever finished the series (not attacking Jim, it's an ambitious series he may not finish it in his lifetime).

His personal life is none of my business and I've said that before on this board. Where many fans get lost is that when our lives go to sh@t we don't get to not work. We show up and put in our time or we starve (or our children starve, or we are unable to make child support, or the house gets foreclosed, etc.) Our feels don't matter.

On the other hand, it's also important to remember that none of us know Jim, we just like reading his books. So, let me compare him to Kurt Cobain or Hemingway. Would nagging Cobain or Hemingway about their next project speed things up? Well no, because they really didn't need to get that far ahead with their planning. Just let it go, he's a stranger to us. 

You are not owed a book by Jim Butcher.  If he chooses to take up his eponymous  trade and never write again you have no claim for anything from Jim Butcher.  I want to read Peace Talks as much as any other fan but guess what... life happens.

I've seen it posted before that Jim Butcher doesn't owe us anything. I disagree. When standalone books are written absolutely nothing is owed. Implicit in every trilogy is the belief that there will be a third book. If the third book doesn't get written there is no point in reading the first two books. It wasted the readers time defrauded the reader out of money and time and left the reader hanging with no resolution.

The early books were standalone novels. Once he left the case mysteries set up (really since Changes and his books that I preferred) it became more like a trilogy or long series.

Imagine if you get to the last book of the Harry Potter series and it doesn't get written just because the author decided that she didn't want to, had plenty of money, and didn't owe the fans anything. Well, it's pretty clear that in such a circumstance the writer is a jerk.

In contrast, it would have been unfortunate to the reader, but completely understandable for Robert Jordan to not have spent the last part of his life outlining the wheel of time series.

YOU Sir, are NOT fanatical and you don't deserve the title..... Even i don't give a damn about Bandwagon 'fans' so idc if Jim does certainly, just saying..

If you are a Jim Butcher fan then you've seen him write/speak about how much he hates fans attacking each other over Peace Talks Release Date. It's possible to disagree without personal attacks.