Butcher failed to secure a publisher for two to three years. His writing teacher declared it to be publishable, and Butcher started hunting around to do just that.
The result was Semiautomagic, later to be retitled as Storm Front. Jim Butcher in "A Conversation with Jim Butcher", 2004 When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I some kind of formulaic, genre-writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files. Despite initial resistance, he wrote the first book that semester, closely following the instructions of his teacher, author Deborah Chester. Hamilton, rather than the more traditional high fantasy that had been his focus in the past, as Butcher had previously stated that he enjoyed the Anita Blake series.
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In 1996, he enrolled in a writing class, where he was encouraged to write a novel similar to the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. He went on to describe all three books as being "terrible". He wrote three novels within the fantasy genre, one of which he has classified as paranormal.
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Jim Butcher decided to become a professional author at the age of 19.
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He is free to leave the skull if given permission by his owner, but he will die if exposed to significant sunlight without a host body.
He is bound to the skull and its owner's wishes.
Each species in the series (humans, faeries, vampires, etc.) has its own political and societal rules and organizations. The White Council is an organization of human wizards, noted to wield significant economic power in the world, along with their supernatural power. Additionally, large portions of the globe (such as much of Central and South America) are mentioned as being largely under the control of supernatural factions. In the world of The Dresden Files, magic is real-as well as vampires, demons, spirits, faeries, werewolves, outsiders and other monsters-and while the supernatural is still widely discredited, it is practiced by some members of society. In 2007, a television series based on the novels aired for one season on the American Sci-Fi Channel.
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Other works set in the same fictional universe include graphic novels (several new stories, plus adaptations of the first two novels), and The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game. The series has also been released in audiobook format, narrated by James Marsters. Īs of 2021, Butcher has written 17 novels set in the Dresden Files universe, plus a number of short stories (some of which are collected in the anthologies Side Jobs and Brief Cases). Butcher's original proposed title for the first novel was Semiautomagic, which sums up the series' balance of fantasy and hard-boiled detective fiction. The books are written as a first-person narrative from the perspective of the main character, private investigator and wizard Harry Dresden, as he recounts investigations into supernatural disturbances in modern-day Chicago. The first novel, Storm Front, was published in 2000 by Roc Books. The Dresden Files is a series of contemporary fantasy/ mystery novels written by American author Jim Butcher.
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