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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Jim Butcher in the NY Times
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 18:02:45 -0500
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On 5/22/2025 5:34 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> 	https://archive.is/M6wQw
> 
> 	Three decades ago, Jim Butcher put pen to paper and invented
> 	a wildly popular fictional universe. At the time, he was
> 	just trying to finish his homework.
> 
> 	Butcher, then a 25-year-old grad student at the University
> 	of Oklahoma, had days earlier turned in an unfinished novel
> 	for a writing class. The book was about a wisecracking
> 	Chicago gumshoe named Harry Dresden, a wizard whose miserable
> 	love life was occasionally interrupted by a grisly supernatural
> 	murder.
> 
> 	Butcher's professor liked what she read. She told him to
> 	bring an outline for "the rest of it" to their next session.
> 	"She meant the rest of the novel," Butcher recalled in an
> 	interview. "The next week, I rolled in with an outline for
> 	a 20-book series."
> 
> It's not all ducks & bunnies in his life though.

Nice !  Thanks !

Lynn