![]() ![]() Now, I have forgotten the details of this interview and am too lazy to go look it up. Then, there’s also c) which seems to have some credence given that it was Jim Butcher himself who stated it: Battle Talks was going to be massive, and he was going for a gimick…that didn’t work. Or, b) the full Battle Talks novel was massive (the preliminary chapter count from last year/this spring seems to confirm this), and the publishers saw the opportunity to milk money out of an extremely reliable franchise which hadn’t actually produced anything in five frikking years. There are two main theories: a) that the full Battle Talks novel would have been massive, and God knows that fans who have waited five frikking years for their next fix would haaaaate to have a book they couldn’t finish in a mere three hours (cough), publishers decided to split it in half. ![]() Skipping ahead a bit, we’re getting two books this year, Peace Talks (see below) and Battle Grounds in September. Then, when it was completed, the story goes, it needed extensive editing because of the gap between novels and the “extended” fashion in which it had been written. If you’re someone who has had their head under a rock, it’s been five years since the last Dresden book, and this one was supposed to have been completed by last October. ![]()
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