Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Jim Butcher in the NY Times Date: 22 May 2025 22:34:10 GMT Organization: loft Lines: 23 Message-ID: X-Trace: individual.net ZbUxIHf7eX6/4Rs6loQThA9LR6VwaQL3VTz63fa2GxX8jKpygA X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:s3M3Y9XSeqAOH3uNJpSP2PRzIcY= sha256:KQJRCEncPE6iQTmxOUrMTl7i24BNb0Mn7zyxrIgUzFY= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Bytes: 1553 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. -- columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..