Question: What do we have to look forward to in the Dresden Files?

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Assuming that the series is successful enough that my publishers want to continue it, look for more of the same. Harry is pathologically unable to ignore people in trouble and he seems to be just as stubborn about looking the other way when something bad is happening. By the end of the third book in the series, he’s already wading into hot water, and I don’t really see how he’s going to avoid getting in deeper and deeper as the stories progress.

My current plan gets Harry more deeply involved in the supernatural world in general, puts him onto the trail of his parents’ past and the mysterious circumstances surrounding their deaths, makes him about a million new enemies, a hatful of new allies, and calls for him to never have a car that runs too well, a romance that moves too smoothly or rent that gets paid on time. :)

The series does have a definite beginning, middle, and end as I look at it right now. I’ve got loose sketches for about twenty Dresden novels, with a nice big fat epic trilogy to capstone the series, but a great many things could affect how it turns out. I’ll have to play it by ear, but I hope that the adventures of Harry Dresden and company are just beginning, and that the stories will be around for a long, long time.


Source: WizardsHarry.com - Interview with Jim Butcher
Date: April 6, 2001 (?) (Earliest Archive Date)