Twitter Tidbits

This is where the juicy, amusing, and all-around awesome tidbits that Jim drops on Twitter will be archived.  The Library of Congress does it, why not us?

DRESDEN FILES:

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Phantom2448 ‏@Phantom2448  Jan 15
@longshotauthor Just to clarify, is it still the plan to have a new Dresden this year?

Jim ButcherVerified account @longshotauthor
@Phantom2448 I hope so, yes.

 

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Samantha Aguilar ‏@whisper_wind  · Jan 25  
@longshotauthor  Sorry in advance!  My husband has been hounding me to ask you for weeks: have you started working on Peace Talks yet? Sorry

Jim ButcherVerified account ‏@longshotauthor  
@whisper_wind Yes. :)

Jim: RT @fredhicks: Double shot of @longshotauthor  cover art: Ghost Story and Side Jobs: http://bit.ly/by0Jvj
LugD213: @Longshotauthor  No glove? Is that significant?
Jim: @LugD213 It is accurate. :)

Jim: By the way, my fantasy casting for Morgan: Clancy “the Kurgan” Brown!
RobJDurand: @longshotauthor  I can see that casting. Adam Baldwin I could see too though I did just watch Firefly so I’m jaded I suppose. Smiley
Jim: @RobJDurand Adam Baldwin was actually one of the finalists for Dresden in the TV show. Paul was considered edgier, Adam more bulldog-like.

Jim: By the way, my fantasy casting for Morgan: Clancy “the Kurgan” Brown!
mexicantt @longshotauthor  As he is now, or when he was younger? And now I have to ask, who are your fantasy actors for Murphy and Harry?
Jim: @mexicantt As he is NOW. Did you see him in Lost? That’s a friggin’ PERFECT Morgan.

FitzMelech: @longshotauthor  Is Rashid the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred?
Jim: @FitzMelech He’s the guy who took /down/ AlHazred.
FitzMelech: @longshotauthor  That makes Rashid, if possible, even more badass than I thought!
Jim: @FitzMelech Rashid is, by far, the most dangerous of the Senior Council. Which is not the same thing as most powerful. Smiley

LugD213: @Longshotauthor  Any chance that youre gonna be wacked out enough to tweet some Ghost Story spoilers?
Jim: @LugD213 Why not. Smiley It begins immediately on the heels of Changes. Like the transition from Back to the Future 2 to BttF 3.
LugD213: @Longshotauthor  How soon are we talking? Immediately after Aftermath, or maybe during?
Jim: @LugD213 Immediately-immediately. Like, there’s a train coming at him. Smiley

theliz13: @longshotauthor  Your fans respectfully request that you get the faerie queens to stop messing with the weather! PLEASE!
Jim: @theliz13 Whaddayoo, nuts? Ain’t nobody can give those people orders.

mlvalentine: @longshotauthor  Hearing fan speculation and seeing comments on our review about how many books are left in the series. Can you clarify? :)
Jim: @mlvalentine 20ish, yep. Though I’m a couple behind where I thought I’d be, so it might be 21 or 22 before we get to the capstone bit.[/url]

Jim: Honestly, I don’t get it. Cliffhangers are when you DON’T know what happens. :)
Jim: I stand by my earlier reasoning. Not a cliffhanger when you know the outcome. :)
Jim: And I make the first concealed quote from book 13, GHOST STORY, baZING. :)
ydnam: @longshotauthor  you have far too much fun toying with your fans, don’t you?
Jim: @ydnam It’s like a drug.
Jim: The title? Implying something? Would I do that to you guys? :D :D :D

Jim (on Changes): Dear reader: MWOO HAH HAH HAH HAAAAAAHHHH! That is all. :D

Hellflwr: @longshotauthor Begging for a pre-skull Bob story. Even a short one. Or, you know, a whole series…Dont make me cast dominate..
Jim: @Hellflwer Well…. there /was/ no pre-skull Bob. The only question is whose skull he was in originally, before he got his own.

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Quote from: Zachary Ready ‏@DeusSolis

Question among my @HarriedWizard RPG group for @longshotauthor : would changelings be sterile? and if not how would the genetics work?

Quote from: Jim Butcher @longshotauthor

@DeusSolis @HarriedWizard No, not at all.  And cautiously.
@DeusSolis @HarriedWizard :D Consider it a dormant gene group that could potentially be activated by environmental exposure.

Quote from: Zachary Ready ‏@DeusSolis

@longshotauthor @HarriedWizard So a half-elf changeling could have kids that when exposed 2 faerydom, child could exhibit faery qualities?

Quote from: Jim Butcher @longshotauthor

@DeusSolis @HarriedWizard Yeah, though they’d need more exposure the wider the generation gap was. It would be impractical at some point.

 

James Burnell  ‏@SuperSnapper61  Feb 10:
@longshotauthor is it possible for the Erlking to create a Wyld Knight or some equivalent?

‏Jim Butcher @longshotauthor:
@SuperSnapper61 Engh. He could feasibly take a part of his own power and fashion a new mantle from it.  Much weaker than the WK though.

Jim Turnage ‏@jim_turnage  Feb 12:
@longshotauthor Wait, Mab as strong as she is despite wrapping enough of her power together to make a Mantle?! Or someone else made it…

The Honorable Dennis ‏@den_down_unda  Feb 12:
@jim_turnage @longshotauthor I’m guessing the fact that there are three Queens to a single King of the Wild Fae has something to do with it.

Jim Butcher ‏@longshotauthor  Feb 13:
@den_down_unda @jim_turnage The Erlking is simply not on the same scale of power as Mab, though he could probably hand Molly her head.

 

Quote from: Jim’s twitter feed on July 12th 20015

@therealcarew:
@longshotauthor Hey Jim, can I ask a DF question?  What were the Knights of the Cross doing during the Crusades?

@longshotauthor:
@therealcarew Trying to bring them to an end

@therealcarew:
@longshotauthor As unaffiliated but superpowered mediators, like the Jedi?  Or was there supernatural ass that needed kicking?

@longshotauthor:
Well, Saladin was one for a while…

CODEX ALERA:

EpeeBill: @longshotauthor  I’m reading Princeps Fury and last night I got to Gaius’s ‘I look outside my window’ speech. Awesome soliloquy.
Jim: @EpeeBill Thanks. :) Gaius was an extremely fun character to write. I wish I could have given him more screen time.

BeeGirlBlue: Headline: Calderon Against AZ Law – Me: Shit. Tavi’s pissed and he’s gonna come at Brewer like she’s the Vord Queen. Blame @longshotauthor
Jim: @BeeGirlBlue I think the Octavian Administration would have put Varg in charge of the border long since. :)
priscellie: @longshotauthor  Not that the Alerans have to deal with illegal immigration anyway. :D
Jim: @priscellie Are you kidding? They’ve got this whole issue with Vordian-alerans and everything! :D

studliestmuffin: @longshotauthor  What exactly could i compare a gargant to in real life? I having a terrible time picturing them in my head.
Jim: @studliestmuffin  A megatherium (http://bit.ly/a7wHmR) is pretty close to a gargant. :)

indigohaze: @longshotauthor  Feelings on the map being higher bid than the book right now?
Jim: @indigohaze ALERA FOR THE BOOBIES!

FANDOM:

heynonnymouse: @longshotauthor  How does it feel to go to a reading/appearance, and see all kinda people dressed up like Harry, staff, leather duster & all?
Jim: @heynonnymouse  It’s a bit odd. I mean, I don’t know how to react other than to feel geekjoy. Which is just not professional. Smiley

TamarBatAvraham: @longshotauthor  @ShannonKButcher  Have you guys seen this? http://www.geekyclean.com/product/bob-the-skull
Jim: @TamarBatAvraham  Oh, Bob WISHES he could be a bar of soap!

CASHY MONEY:

YevP: @longshotauthor  Was at the library, tryin to wet Changes, and they only had an audio book, what do you get more $$ for? paper or tape?
Jim: @YevP I’d have to check way too many documents to be sure, but I’m fairly confident that it basically makes no nevermind to me.

WRITING:

Kat Richardson (author of the Greywalker novels): Sometimes I even forget character names.
Jim: @katrchrdsn I have occasionally forgotten that a given character was DEAD. :)
Kat: @longshotauthor  yes, but in our genre, dead is not so much of a barrier….

mexicantt: @longshotauthor  If a major disaster struck Chicago, would you change anything in your Dresden storyline to include or reflect it?
Jim: @mexicantt Almost certainly. I try to incorporate world events into my thinking, at least. Like that sinkhole in Guatemala!

MISCELLANEOUS:

Iago: @longshotauthor  “So what would you do with the oil spill, Mr. Butcher?” “Hmm, I’d get a crew of Knights Aqua in here… Or maybe Carlos?”
Jim: @fredhicks Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

myyrdneopia: @priscellie I quote @longshotauthor: “Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
Jim: @myyrdneopia Actually, I’m sort of hoping that they ask Cameron to use Big Geek to carry the bomb down to the leak. Because, irony. :)

theliz13: @longshotauthor  Thats the problem with people. They hear ‘nuke’ and think Hiroshima. Suitcase nukes are much more specific. :->
Jim: @theliz13 Yeah. Nuclear reactors always draw screams of Chyernob… Cherno… Chair-Noble. But they’ve gotten much more stable since then.
Jim: Chernobyl, dammit! I KNEW I would remember it if I tried it enough times. :)

westonian: I once said of Joss Whedon “He’s an absolute bastard and I love him for it.” I now say the same of @longshotauthor. Fantastic storytelling.
Jim: @westonian Hi praise! Thank you! :D

MargoEve: After finishing his latest book, I’m nominating @longshotauthor for the “Whedon, You BASTARD!” award for this year.
Jim: @MargoEve High praise indeed! :D Thank you!

Jim: Okay. Gonna walk around a bit and maybe hunt for a Hershey’s bar.
Shinga_the_Jedi (author of Head Trip webcomic): @longshotauthor  If you’re going to go candy hunting, at least hunt for something GOOD ;)
Jim: @Shinga_the_Jedi  Giving me geekgasms by doing a Dresden Files comic is no reason for you to be walking on the Hershey bar!
Shinga_the_Jedi: @longshotauthor  … One of my favorite ever authors read my comic and had a geekasm. Best birthday present EVER. ;) (Hershey still sucks <3)
Jim: @Shinga_the_Jedi  Oh, I fired it off to my editor and agent too. :) Proof that the Dresden Files are going viral! :D

Jim: Perfection: RT @rdonoghue: American Airlines – Because you thought it would be faster than driving. Sucker.