Jim Butcher On Sword and Laser
I have recently gotten into Geek and Sundry‘s Sword and Laser webshow. I haven’t found any show that interview authors, particularly fantasy and science fictions authors, like they do. And they get some pretty big damn names too. George R. R. Martin, Salidin Ahmed, Cherie Priest, and several others. I’ve found a few books I had never encountered and I love hearing fantasy authors talk about their work.
And in catching up, I came upon this interview with Jim Butcher.
Jim friggin Butcher! My head nearly EXPLODED!
If you haven’t read Mr. Butcher’s work, really, stop reading this and go buy Storm Front. It’s not he best of the series, so push on because The Dresden Files is, in my personal opinion, the best fantasy series I have ever read. Furies of Calderon is also pretty damn good, but has more obvious weaknesses.
His work (probably coupled with The Name of the Wind) was what made me write and finish my novel. A lot of books inspired me to write (Dark Tower series, anything by Terry Brooks, the Hobbit, a ton of others) but it was finishing each Dresden Files and it never being enough to satisfy that hunger for more that made me write and finish things. It taught be about better world building, characterization, narrative, pacing, storytelling, prose, how to be literary while still having monsters and explosions, humor and drama.
As you can tell, I’m a bit Butcher fan. Check it out.
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