Question: But: is there one final thing you’d like people to know about the book?

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I’m working on it!! (...) There isn't [a release date yet]. They want me to finish writing it first!


Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016

Question: What about Uriel and the other angels and characters from the last book. Do they come into this one, or are they taking a backseat to the Accords?

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They won’t be as involved in this one. The angels can only get so involved in things that are going on, because there’s this whole issue of human free will.


Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016

Question: What about Demonreach? Is Harry still living there when Maggie lives with him, or has he moved back into Chicago?

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He’s living with the svartalves in Molly’s apartment. He’s Molly’s vassal, so Molly said he gets to go there, and the svartalves are like, “Yeah, fine.” And they like Maggie and Mouse.

Mouse has got better people skills than Dresden does.


Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016

Question: Speaking of Harry and his family – do we hear more about his mother and her background?

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Probably not in this book.


Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016

Question: There was the whole, “Justine is pregnant” tweet… Were you kidding? Were you trolling? Was it real?

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No no, that’s the first sentence of the book. “Thomas said Justine is pregnant.”


Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016

Question: I’m going to go through a few characters. Please tell me if we’re going to see any significant development of them in Peace Talks: Thomas and Justine?

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Yes.


Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016

Question: Of course it’s good for [Peace Talks'] storyline for it to be in [Harry's] town, but on the other hand you’re going, “Hmmm, why would [the Fomor] pick Chicago? I wonder…”

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Chicago is one of the great crossroads of the world.

[It's a major hub] for all kinds of travel, for shipping, for railroads and air; so it is the place in the middle of this continent. But anyway, so they’re having the meeting there; I’m sure everything will be fine.

Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016

[The Fomor] are not just the Fomorians of legend; but the Fomorians got driven back into the sea long ago, so they’ve been collecting the refuse from all the other pantheons of bad guys who’ve managed to survive whatever conflicts were going on at that point. So they’ve been causing a lot of trouble, and they’re getting everyone together for peace talks. They want to establish themselves and they’ve requested a summit.

(...)

They’ve been universally hostile and suddenly they show up and say, “Let’s sit down and talk.”

And everybody’s like, “…Okay. We’ll do that.”

So of course Harry’s going to be involved in it. Generally speaking, it’s going to be a meeting under the Accords. All these different powers, all these supernatural influences are coming to Chicago. Harry gets to see that coming and say, “Man, I feel bad for whatever city that’s going to happen in. Because nothing could go wrong with that!”

“Yeah, it’s going to be here.”

"…What?”


Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016

Question: The next book is titled Peace Talks. Please tell us about how everyone sits down, holds hands, and has a little peace talk. What are we going to be seeing?

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For the past several years within the storyline there’s been a lot of unrest in the supernatural world, because some lunatic destroyed the Red Court of vampires, who were one of the major players in the supernatural world. As a result of that, a power that has been lying low and quiet for a long time has started asserting itself into the vacuum that the Red Court left behind.


Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016