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I'm going to his Portland Signing/reading. I normally just get audiobooks (already preordered it on audible), so if the store will let me I'm gonna try to get my copy of Wizard At Large signed and not get hardcover copy of Skin Game. If I have time, I'll probably print out a few of my Grave Peril booklets and give them to people that ask me for em. Also on that note I think I'll have time to draw the Summer Knight characters in August.
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mistaya posted:That'd be great KellHound, I know I really loved your Grave Peril pictures, especially the one with Harry and Michael dressed for the Masquerade. Actually I was curious if you're allowed to give him anything at signings, like art you've done, or if that's frowned on/not allowed. Oh I gave him a copy of the booklet at SDCC last year. :3 Pricilla who runs his website and writes all those news posts brought him over to my small press table. I gave him a booklet and then he bought my book that is about demon gangsters. Jim Butcher was cosplaying the main character of Big Trouble in Little China. I took a picture https://twitter.com/kellhound/status/358311860694568960
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Wolpertinger posted:Eh, An absolutely massively astronomical number of women are sexually assaulted at some point in their life - it seems perfectly reasonable to assume that if one of them is a teenager who can burn people with their mind she's not going to give a poo poo about the First Law. It seems like a very reasonable way to give you a reason to kill someone with magic in a sympathetic manner, considering that almost the only way that it's really morally justified enough to create the moral dilemma he wanted with her character is to kill self defense or against an abuser. It's considerably more likely (and sympathetic) than her blowing up some random mugger, or something. He needed a character that was a killer and criminal, but a sympathetic one, and one that would be vulnerable to Lasciel's influence, to have a proper vehicle for Lasciel to return. Well the reason it is lazy is because that is the most use backstory/motive of any female character. There are a lot of reasons why it is lovely overused writing. But I don't want to get into it cause we got a new Dresden book to chat about so I will just link you to this http://postcardsfromspace.tumblr.com/post/75007069989/can-a-male-author-write-a-comicbook-to-justice There are other ways to do all that and rape is the laziest most sexist way
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So I just got back from Jim Butcher's signing in Portland. I recorded his Q&A if anyone wants to give a listen. Here is a link to download it. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwdBBtfoAm6vWEdyU2h2UkZva0U/edit?usp=sharing
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Fried Chicken posted:Can anyone make out either question that gets asked when he says "the paranetters lost"? Particularly the long question at about 24 minutes? The guy basically asked what happened that made the paranet go dark in Oregon. Seems like a longer question cause he talks about how he needs to know for his Portland roleplay group
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Hey so my drawing schedule lightened up now that my book is coming out from Darkhorse. So I have the free time to do Daily Dresden Drawings for Summer Knight and maybe Death Masks. But I'm drawing a blank on what to use at the cover Summer Knight. So what are some of you guys favorite scenes in Summer Knight. Preferable comedy wise so it matches the Harry dressed as cheesy vampire drawing I did for my Grave Peril booklet which is still free BTW> https://gumroad.com/l/RpbD Edit: And same question for Death Marks
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So I posted this when I first got it back in March but I got my Harry Dresden and Murphy watercolors by Tyler Crook framed. Check it out
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Error 404 posted:I'm giggling way too hard at this. Yeah, Tyler and I were goofing off at the table we shared at Emerald City Comic Con while he was painting sketchcard examples. After he did Harry I told him "Now draw Murphy" and he very quickly painted her. After the show he gave them to me, it just took me forever to get them framed. :P
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So I have offically started up my Daily Dresden Drawings again. They'll all get posted on my site at noon EST. Here's Harry as he first appears in Summer Knight, ya know the time when he doesn't remember the last time he shaved or showered. http://www.sorcery101.net/news/daily-dresden-drawings-summer-knight-harry-dresden/
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Hey so I'm like half way through my character sketches for Summer Knight. I thought I'd throw up a link. Toot toot is the newest one so he's at the top. Maeve is tomorrow. http://www.sorcery101.net/tag/summer-knight/
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why oh WHY posted:Those are fantastic. Can't wait to see Maeve. Thanks, I did Grave Peril a few years ago and collected them all in a pdf that's free in my store. I will definitely finish Summer Knight and I think I have time to do Death Masks too before I have to get to work on my next book for Dark Horse.
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Mooktastical posted:Ventresca. He'd make a good Thomas. He is not nearly hot enough to be Thomas
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I share you're compliant about Laurel K Hamiton. I personally would really like books with female leads that don't end up as softcore porn or don't end up with her biggest problem being which guy should she hook up with. But I'm equally frustrated with the Urban Fantasy books where woman is a device or sex kitten or damsel in distress. I liked Libromancer but the main woman/love interest really bothered me. so I haven't checked out the second book. Felix Castor has a succubus as a main character but still better than the way most Urban Fantasy treats their ladies. I think both need to be addressed to get that therorectical taint off the genre. Because right now when I recommend Urban Fantasy books to friends those are the first two things I got to tell them about the series. I know we talk about how goony Dresden is, but despite his preoccupation with tits, the ladies in the books are pretty cool.
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ConfusedUs posted:The Greywalker series has a female protagonist, but they're boring. Yeah I gave Greywalker a shot. I gave up when it became all about the tru luw between her and her homeless boyfriend. The Rook is on my audible wishlist right now. I'm on Rivers of London right now. And Male protagonist is okay, just as long as the ladies in his life are fully formed people. I really liked the Felix Castor books. Edit: I know everyone in this thread kinda hates her, but I love Murphy. My dream is to find a series about basically Murphy. KellHound fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Nov 18, 2014 |
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mastajake posted:Is Murphy the only character that has been in every book other than Harry? There was one book I didn't think Mister was in (but I could be wrong) and I can't think of anyone else. Mac maybe? As someone who as been going through the books finding every characters appearance to draw them, I can tell you Murphy, Bob, and Mister are the characters that show up in every book besides Harry. Mac isn't in Grave Peril or Summer Knight. As for Harry/Murphy dating, I'm indifferent. But I want Murphy to stick around. If Butters can suddenly be a knight, then Murphy can stick around and keep kicking rear end. KellHound fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Nov 19, 2014 |
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Benny the Snake posted:Is Kincaid supposed to be black? For some reason, when I read him, I was imagining a younger Denzel Washington. He's got shoulder length blonde hair. So he probably doesn't look like Denzel
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Error 404 posted:Well I also imagined Morgan as black (before the show mind you) and Kincaid also seemed like a black man. Despite being set in Chicago there is actually very few black characters in the Dresden Files. It's basically Martha Liberty, Sanya, and Rawlings.
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Oh man, I leave my computer for a few days and miss the fun gender politics in Dresden Files talk. I'm gonna chime in that Dresden Files does definitely have it's problems. And you can be unintentionally sexist very easily. I mean as much as being a goober is Harry's character trait that still means we got told about Molly's training bra over and over and over.For awhile I really didn't like Molly and then when I thought about it, I realized it was more I didn't like how Molly is used/treated. This isn't just oh no poor Molly is now a fairy queen. It's more her being asked to get on her knees while naked so Harry can humiliate her. Its Molly stumbling on organism times when checking out the corspe. It's how She gets over exhausted/burnt out by her powers so often. It's her throwing water on her white shirt before talking to detective guy. It just seemed like early on she was getting all the lame "girl character" bits. And this creepy diconamy of sexy sexy oh wait lets talk about how she is a kid. And I'm actually more raising an eyebrow over that than Thomas having supernatural rapey powers. Only about half of those things are the result of Harry being Harry and the books are in his POV. I mean like as McCoy points out in Changes a lot of what makes Thomas an appealing character on the surfaces is what makes the White Court vampires so dangerous, and Thomas might not even be aware he is doing it. And at least until the threesome fixing his problems thing Thomas's sexy powers are treated as bad/dangerous. I actually liked how Thomas compared his rape powers to Harry's Winter Knight mantle. I would like it more if Harry and Thomas talked about that. Cause while I thought the winter knight mantle made Harry's narration got rapier than I cared for, I took away that Harry's every day chauvinism only need a small push from his winter mantle to get there. Like maybe if Harry was more a thrill seeker or angrier person winter mantle would have pushed him more toward murder. So I just find the early Molly stuff more problematic and more insidious sexism then anything else. That and everything with Lucio is kinda well it's super important to the plot so it doesn't jump out at you as odd. But then when tied together and with Murphy in Skin Game makes you start thinking well why was this the go to thing to move the plot forward. Could the story be written without doing all that? The Molly bits especially seem the most thoughtless. And I'm all for making you characters suffer. But Susan and Molly are damaged in ways that end up making them bigger hitters/more important to the bigger plan. Lucio is hurt to make her less important to the big picture and I hope that isn't the path Murphy ends up with. Cause that would establish that the combat focused ladies are the ones who are need to be less relevant. (And not that I think about it Harry and Luccio who is a pretty combat focused lady date after Murphy turns Harry down. Rebound much Harry :P) Also, woman in the Dresden Files frequently have food brought up when Harry describes them. So it's not just lets talk about titties and curves, it's lets compare women to things I consume. So there's that. I super love the Dresden Files, but it has problems with gender that aren't all Harry's fault. But they are small ones that I am 100% certain are due to not thinking it through. Anyway, I just finished Rivers of London and I thought is was loving rad. Just grabbed the other audiobook. Now I'm off to listening to them and back to drawing comics. Edit; Oh and how to all of you define Urban Fantasy? I was talking to a friend about this recently that it kinda blurs into Paranormal Romance and folks in here bring up Anita Blake reminded me. So like Twilight is clearly Paranormal Romance and Dresden is clearly Urban Fantasy. But like which is Anita Blake? Or the Sookie Stakehouse books? Or Buffy? Where do you guys usually end up drawing that line? I'm curious. KellHound fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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Megazver posted:This will probably throw some poo poo onto the fan, but gently caress it. This is in regards to part b of you process, are you okay reading female authors and passing on male authors entirely or are you say you will only put female authors up to that extra requirement. Either is kinda hosed up, BUT ITS YOUR READING LIST so whatever. Personally, I'm not crazy about paranormal romance 9 times out of ten but I've read to one or two that were enjoyable. I find myself getting more frustrated at stuff like the Kitty Norvel stuff where I thought I was gonna get some interesting Urban Fantasy with a lady protagonist due to the copy on the back and instead I get super rapey porn. ( will point out the first book meets your critia but is awful so it's an especially bad burn.) So I don't mind a good romance focus book (aka not twilight) as long as it says so on the tin. So like Anita Blake kinda straddling (badumtish) that line is like I know to avoid it because it's well know for turning into porns later. But like some lesser known series have burned me aka Patrica Brigg's Mercy Thompson series. I just want cool ladies to kick rear end and get poo poo done.
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Ornamented Death posted:Well they are divorced now. You know there is that whole bit in Murphy's POV about men speaking Martian, so I'm not surprised.
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Khizan posted:The only female authors I can think of who are writing non-romance urban fantasy are Alex Hughes and Seanan McGuire, and McGuire's within sight of the romance border. That reminds me just picked up Seanan McGuire's Rosemary Rue and need to get around to listen to it. But I haven't heard of Alex Hughes' stuff, what's it like tonally and how would you rate it?
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sirtommygunn posted:I just assume that the council gave him an off-screen warning prior to the start of the books to not use any magic in any way that could reach a large group of people. Or hey, maybe Dresden has tried before but it always gets explained away within a week ex. the toad rain in Summer Knight. I know on Larry Flower show and all other tv related stuff the reason is he destroys all the cameras by doing something simple with magic. So they can't really record him.
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So who else will be at C2E2 and see Jim Butchers panel on his steampunk book? I'm gonna try to check it out but I might end up stuck at my table selling stuff
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Ghetto Prince posted:If you like stuff in that vein, there's this really good old series of short stories called Alabaster , about an albino girl who travels the south to hunt and kill monsters at the orders of an Angel or possibly about a psychopathic albino drifter who travels the south murdering random people, the stories are really vague about that. I didn't know these were books! I have the graphic novels and one of the pages on my wall so I'll have to check out the actually books! And @Xtansic I kinda like that the magic is left vague. But I sorta hate how much Brandon Sander details his magic system. I always feel like it bogs down the pacing. I'd rather learn as the story goes. Personally I've been plowing through the audiobooks of October Daye series. I wish there were female lead urban fantasy books like this. Gonna draw a lot of comics while listening.
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thrawn527 posted:I'll check out Neverwhere, thanks. Also a comic but Murder Mysteries by Neil Gaiman is super good. And it's less of a commitment than the 10 volume Sandman.
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Skippy McPants posted:Sorry, did I miss something? Most Urban Fantasy readers are dudes, as I understand the term and what it entails. I'm talking about stuff like Dresden Files, Rivers of London, Grim Noir, The Rook, etc. So question, where is the line to you between Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance? Where would something like Buffy fall? There is a serious plot there that's not romance but the romance is important. What about Seanan McGuire's stuff? She was mentioned above has having low key romance but usually there is mystery to be solved. Also do you have stats? Cause most of the signing I've seem pretty even. And a lot editors/publishers/authors I've talked to say the fanbase usually relates to the gender divid of the cast. So like the books you are declaring 100% urban fantasy might be mostly dudes it's probably more like 60/40 rather than a HUGE tip one way or the other. Also, it's very frustrating being a lady that likes urban fantasy but not romance. Seems like I got to flip a coin and pick between some ladies in probably rapey romance or ladies in skippy outfits that are there to get fridge. KellHound fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Skippy McPants posted:You mention a 60/40 split, which is a clear majority, and I'd wager the divide is a fair bit bigger than even that. As someone who writes urban fantasy and keeps up with what's going on in the industry and hits a lot of conventions and signings, I think you would lose that wager. Especially if you are saying Buffy falls in the Urban Fantasy side of the line. I think Paragon8 is probably right in that Dresden is the outlier, and it is probably the other way around.
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cultureulterior posted:You might like This Case is Gonna Kill Me (by Phillippa Bornikova[1]), and the sequel. About a young lawyer who gets a job at a vampire law firm. There's romance, but it's low key, and not in the sequel One of those underappreciated urban fantasies. Cool! I'll check it out!  Do you know if it has an audiobook? I usually audiobook it while working on my next book.
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DreamingofRoses posted:Just finished A Killing Frost and I still have so many questions about Marcia as well as Stacy and her kids. I’m pretty sure the vagueness and dropped questioning has to do with more magical bullshit and not just bad writing but I really want to know! There is 100% something serious going on with Marcia. She couldn't be controlled by Eira/wasn't knocked into the water with all of Dean's court in Winter's Long. She also in Unkindest Tide she entered the duchy of ships no problem even though it messed with Toby. I've seen a few folks speculate that she is Mauve or Titania in hiding.
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fralbjabar posted:Re: A Killing Frost: October Daye is pretty much my favorite urban fantasy series right now too. Seanan said 31 on twitter as a joke. Get it? 31 October Dayes? ba dum tish. I think end game is reopening fairy? or finding all the big 3? Because Amandine's bloodline is supposed to bring back the big 3 and heal faire. Toby keeps overthrowing traditionalist kings and queens. So it would fit if she's just supposed to keep doing that. Also maybe find a way to stop Eyra for good? Also, Marcia might just be a merlin? There is a lot of talk about how merlins are oddly powerful. So she could be claiming she has more fae in her than she does to stay safe.
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DreamingofRoses posted:I’m going with Maeve, because she’s waaaay too nice for Titania. But I’m now super curious about Stacey’s kids after this past book because October was going along a very concerning “this doesn’t make sense” line and then it just completely slips away! Thats also adding that between the return of the Roan and Karen and Cassandra we’re getting a big ole return of future tellers/seers to Faerie. Simon's divorce/marrying into a throuple made me laugh. I am wondering what Sylvester will do. Since I guess he is now a citizen of the Undersea now. I donno how hard charging him would be now. Also, this book made me interested in August and what will happen to her now that she has left Amandine. I'm also interested in a woken up not crazy Raseline. Working for October for year, do you think that would make her squire number 3? Toby keeps saying she is done collecting teenagers but we all know that is a lie. While Raseline isn't a teen, experience wise she kinda is. Also Luna's gonna be pissed. Anyway, as far as earlier plot things, I think April is kinda conclude since January was brought back in a short, Simon is kinda concluded with his trouple marriage. Raseline's mentle health/recovery and Luna's wrath seem to be the earliest book plots that need some closure. Also, I'm pretty sure that Jazz and May are gonna break up. 
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Proteus Jones posted:Luna can get hosed as far as I'm concerned. I mean I get she's pissed and I even get why, but to freeze Toby out of the family after everything Toby has done and sacrificed for her and Simon... Same. Same
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toanoradian posted:Ah, since I don't read any other urban fantasy books, I should be fine. Rivers of London is very very good. I also really like the October Daye series. Before I read those two, Dresden Files was a series I really liked but constantly was thinking I really wish it would focus more on mysteries and treated it's female characters better. They both replaced The Dresden Files as my favorite urban fantasy books very quickly.
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Cythereal posted:At the end of the day, Lara is an unrepentant serial rapist and mass murderer. I'm open to the possibility of Butcher doing something interesting with her, but I kinda hope she's forced to reckon with that along the way. There is a lot of talk about how Lara is worse than her dad because she has less brovado/aggroance. So it makes her more dangerous and Dresden is like whelp I'll deal with that problem when it bites me in the rear end. She kinda gets talk about the same way as Marcone only Marcone being dangerous has ACTUALLY screwed harry over a couple of times already and we got his sad back story. Lara hasn't gotten her sad motive to everything and also hasn't hurt Harry yet. It makes everything kinda puffed up over nothing and less sympathetic. Maybe the next book will change that? But there is only so long you can talk about someone being dangerous without them actually doing something. Edit: I mean doing something big IN the narrative. Obviously she has raped and murdered a poo poo ton off screen. I like Thomas when he was living with Harry and not eating people. But him and Murphy hanging with Harry were my favorite parts of the earlier books. The two of them getting sidelines has made me not be as into the series since changes. KellHound fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Apr 27, 2021 |
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I meant more she hasn't hosed up Harry poo poo the way Marcone (Or Leah or Mab the other baddies that Harry sometimes allies with) has. Because the shows of power we have seen from her have been stuff like raping her dad into submission which can be seen as both payback, her taking power for herself, amd saving her brother all in one or Madeline who as Everyone said if you take a shot at the queen best not miss. Also, Lara doesn't have any children of her own to abuse. So I skeptically about being a line her dad crossed that she wouldn't. I kinda hope she takes a swing at McCoy or something (Edit: Now that I think about it, her facing off against Ramieriz might be better). Because all the other powerful baddies that Dresden is wary of siding with have shown off what they can do more than Lara. Granted the point of the white court is that they don't show off that way, but like I said there is only so many times the narrative can say don't let your guard down this person is very very dangerous without having that follow through. It makes her character rather flat. Justine has been a more effective baddie than Lara at this point. And yeah, McCoy is right about the white court. Edit: Oh and Thomas's nibble thing is after he moved out of Harry's. While living with Harry he couldn't keep a mimimum wage job because he kept getting sexually assaulted at work. Implying that his power whammies people without him actively doing. So when he doesn't want to eat people, he's also a victim. So once he figures out the nibbling thing and then later is back to business as usual, he gets less complicated, less interesting, and is then sidelined. I think a writer who isn't Jim Butcher could have explored that more in an interesting way. But since Dresden is written by Jim Butcher it's probably best that Thomas's story didn't go into that. KellHound fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Apr 27, 2021 |
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Ninurta posted:
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OmniBeer posted:Yuuup, I assume. Ya know, I do feel a little bad for the dopple gangers who were involved in the evil plot. The just wanted a place to call their own, and if new york is poisonious to everyone else, why not let them set up shop in new york? Toby has learned to play nice with the pixies which are pests, so it would be nice if the dopplegangers got a little bit of sympathy now. I wouldn't be surpised if that's the direction October Daye books goes with them, given that the Incrypid series just made the coocoos (the only kill on sight monster) sympathic
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navyjack posted:Uh…he’s super SUPER tall. NBA tall. That right there requires no supernatural weirdness. The weirdest, gooniest, most socially inept motherfucker I ever knew used to have girls drooling all over him. His secret? Be 6’7”. This is true enough that the Reductress made an article about it. https://reductress.com/post/quiz-is-he-cute-or-is-he-just-tall-and-white/ Being tall really is all he needs to explain interest in him. KellHound fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Dec 8, 2021 |
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I kinda always read Leslie was white feminism. So like she betrayed the multicultural london Peter represents in favor of the power offered to her by faceless man's white supremacism patriarchy. And she betrays the faceless man too because white feminism's problem with his ideology is the patriarchy part, not the white supremacism part. So she's not fully on board of faceless man's beliefs but is okay following them to get her way. Either way, I also think she has also run her coarse.
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