Question: But: is there one final thing you’d like people to know about the book?
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
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Showing posts with label SRC YEAR: 2016. Show all posts
Question: About Harry’s family, sort of--what about the spirit of intellect, whose name is...?
He is calling her Bonea, because the word Bone is in the name, and Harry’s not got a sophisticated sense of humor. Bonea or Bonnie. And Bonnie is learning. She’s got enormous amounts of information at her disposal, and no perspective on how it works in the actual world. It’s the most ridiculous character. I’m having a lot of fun writing her.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
He is calling her Bonea, because the word Bone is in the name, and Harry’s not got a sophisticated sense of humor. Bonea or Bonnie. And Bonnie is learning. She’s got enormous amounts of information at her disposal, and no perspective on how it works in the actual world. It’s the most ridiculous character. I’m having a lot of fun writing her.
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?
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
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?
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
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?
Probably not in this book.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
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?
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
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?
Yes.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
Yes.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
Question: So is there a Butters [short story] coming out as well?
Yes; Butters’ first mission as a Knight of the Cross. He’s out doing cardio with Michael; he’s doing the Rocky thing, he’s doing his training montage. And he sees something and trips over a trash can, and Michael says, “What’s wrong?”
And Butters looks at him and says, “You don’t see that?”
And Michael’s like, “See what?”
And Butters says, “That bum on the bench over there, there’s a big yellow exclamation point floating over him.”
And Michael’s like, “No, I don’t see that.”
And Butters gets to be like, “I’m not crazy. My mother had me tested.”
Michael’s like, “Well what does that mean to you?”
And Butters says, “Well that’s what you see over an NPC in an MMORPG any time there’s a quest that you need to go do.”
Yeah, it’s coming up as an MMORPG quest for him.
And Michael’s like, “You used a lot of letters there, and I did not understand anything you said – but it sounds like that’s what the quest is.”
And Butters is like, “God speaks video game?”
And Michael’s like, “God speaks whatever it is you understand. So maybe you should go talk to that guy.”
And that’s where it gets started; and then he winds up in all kinds of trouble after that.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
Yes; Butters’ first mission as a Knight of the Cross. He’s out doing cardio with Michael; he’s doing the Rocky thing, he’s doing his training montage. And he sees something and trips over a trash can, and Michael says, “What’s wrong?”
And Butters looks at him and says, “You don’t see that?”
And Michael’s like, “See what?”
And Butters says, “That bum on the bench over there, there’s a big yellow exclamation point floating over him.”
And Michael’s like, “No, I don’t see that.”
And Butters gets to be like, “I’m not crazy. My mother had me tested.”
Michael’s like, “Well what does that mean to you?”
And Butters says, “Well that’s what you see over an NPC in an MMORPG any time there’s a quest that you need to go do.”
Yeah, it’s coming up as an MMORPG quest for him.
And Michael’s like, “You used a lot of letters there, and I did not understand anything you said – but it sounds like that’s what the quest is.”
And Butters is like, “God speaks video game?”
And Michael’s like, “God speaks whatever it is you understand. So maybe you should go talk to that guy.”
And that’s where it gets started; and then he winds up in all kinds of trouble after that.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
Question: There’s a book, Shadowed Souls, that’s coming out, and there will be a Dresden story in that. Is it the Butters one, or the Molly one?
That’s got the Molly story – Molly’s first mission as The Winter Lady. And you get to find out what her job actually is; and it’s not nice, what she’s gotta do.
She’s got operational security she has to worry about now. So she doesn’t tell Harry, and there are all these things she’s hiding from him, and different things that are now available to her; and different pressures that she has to deal with as The Winter Lady. There’s a reason that her predecessor Maeve was completely bugnuts. Once she’s getting into it she’s like, “Oh. Ohhhhh.” So that’s what she’s facing, so we get to see her doing that.
She’s such a fun character to write; because in many ways as The Winter Lady, she’s in a place where she’s very comfortable – because as the eldest daughter in a large family, it was essentially her job to be deputy mom, and wrangle all the little brothers and sisters; and that’s what she’s doing now. But at the same time, she’s got Mab as the mother figure now, instead of Charity – and Molly has issues with authority figures. So you get to see some of that conflict. It’s fun to write. I love writing the stories from the perspectives of the different characters, because they all see the world so differently. The Dresden Files world changes completely based on whose eyes you’re looking through to see.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
That’s got the Molly story – Molly’s first mission as The Winter Lady. And you get to find out what her job actually is; and it’s not nice, what she’s gotta do.
She’s got operational security she has to worry about now. So she doesn’t tell Harry, and there are all these things she’s hiding from him, and different things that are now available to her; and different pressures that she has to deal with as The Winter Lady. There’s a reason that her predecessor Maeve was completely bugnuts. Once she’s getting into it she’s like, “Oh. Ohhhhh.” So that’s what she’s facing, so we get to see her doing that.
She’s such a fun character to write; because in many ways as The Winter Lady, she’s in a place where she’s very comfortable – because as the eldest daughter in a large family, it was essentially her job to be deputy mom, and wrangle all the little brothers and sisters; and that’s what she’s doing now. But at the same time, she’s got Mab as the mother figure now, instead of Charity – and Molly has issues with authority figures. So you get to see some of that conflict. It’s fun to write. I love writing the stories from the perspectives of the different characters, because they all see the world so differently. The Dresden Files world changes completely based on whose eyes you’re looking through to see.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
Question: Are the Maggie books going to start coming out before all of [the future Dresden Files books] goes through, or are you working in tandem on those?
Hopefully I’ll be working in tandem. I’m going to be writing them along with my sister, who has had six children of her own and knows the child interaction thing better than I do. I only have the one, so there was no cross-conflict going on there. Hopefully that will be something we can write. She’ll be able to come up and visit for three weeks, and we’ll work on the thing together and just get it done. Because the advantage of writing a young adult book is you can write it a lot shorter. It’s only about a quarter of a full length novel. Which makes it a project I can do on a fairly rapid basis. So that will be fun, doing it like that.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
Hopefully I’ll be working in tandem. I’m going to be writing them along with my sister, who has had six children of her own and knows the child interaction thing better than I do. I only have the one, so there was no cross-conflict going on there. Hopefully that will be something we can write. She’ll be able to come up and visit for three weeks, and we’ll work on the thing together and just get it done. Because the advantage of writing a young adult book is you can write it a lot shorter. It’s only about a quarter of a full length novel. Which makes it a project I can do on a fairly rapid basis. So that will be fun, doing it like that.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
Question: Are we going to see further interesting magical developments, and how do you keep that balance?
Yes, you’re going to see more. The way I like to keep it balanced is... The big advantage that I have for The Dresden Files is that I’ve always planned for there to be an end to the story. So I know what the end is going to be like, and what I’m going to need him to be able to do, to do the big stuff at the end. So I’ve been able to sort of scale him up appropriately as I go along. Plus, he’s been scaling up into new and better villains. A higher quality of asshole for him to go up against. So that’s what we’ve been doing all along. So that sort of makes it easy, when you know what your end target is. That makes it a lot simpler, to get it done that way. I’m planning on twenty, maybe twenty-one of the casebooks like we’ve had so far; and then there’s going to be a big ol’ apocalyptic trilogy at the end. And we’ve still got all kinds of fun stuff to do, that I’ve been looking forward to for fifteen years. It’s occasionally maddening. But yeah – we’ve still got professional wrestling, and dragons, and kaiju and all kinds of cool stuff ahead of us.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
Yes, you’re going to see more. The way I like to keep it balanced is... The big advantage that I have for The Dresden Files is that I’ve always planned for there to be an end to the story. So I know what the end is going to be like, and what I’m going to need him to be able to do, to do the big stuff at the end. So I’ve been able to sort of scale him up appropriately as I go along. Plus, he’s been scaling up into new and better villains. A higher quality of asshole for him to go up against. So that’s what we’ve been doing all along. So that sort of makes it easy, when you know what your end target is. That makes it a lot simpler, to get it done that way. I’m planning on twenty, maybe twenty-one of the casebooks like we’ve had so far; and then there’s going to be a big ol’ apocalyptic trilogy at the end. And we’ve still got all kinds of fun stuff to do, that I’ve been looking forward to for fifteen years. It’s occasionally maddening. But yeah – we’ve still got professional wrestling, and dragons, and kaiju and all kinds of cool stuff ahead of us.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
Question: One of the things I love is – [Harry]’s so much more powerful when you see him from someone else’s view. Like when Karrin Murphy is describing him and you’re like, “Yeah, I already knew Harry was kind of a badass, but now I think, ‘holy crap, he walks into the room and you’re like – whaaat?’”
Yeah, from the exterior he looks way different than he does from the interior. From his own viewpoint, he’s Charlie Brown. (...) From the outside, he’s huge, and weird, and can do all these different things that nobody else can do. He doesn’t make eye contact with anybody…
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
Yeah, from the exterior he looks way different than he does from the interior. From his own viewpoint, he’s Charlie Brown. (...) From the outside, he’s huge, and weird, and can do all these different things that nobody else can do. He doesn’t make eye contact with anybody…
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
Question: I think in The Dresden Files you tap into these shared remembrances that all of us have at different points. We might be all different people, but in our lives, we’ve all been children, or sat in the field, or been really scared, or whatever, and you’ve tapped into that with Harry’s character. I love the way you do that.
That poor guy. That poor guy!
Date: September 26, 2016
That poor guy. That poor guy!
Date: September 26, 2016
Question: Is [Maggie] still with the Carpenters?
The way that Harry’s going to set it up is, he’s going to keep Maggie all summer. During the school year, she’s going to go to a boarding school in town, St. Marks Academy for the Gifted and Talented; it’s sort of where the supernatural folks all send their kids. And my intention is, in the next few years I’m going to write kind of a young adult series about Maggie Dresden at the Academy. She’ll be there with Mouse; because she seriously does have all kinds of problems and issues that are challenges for her. She’s got bad social anxiety; she’s got several phobias – which are understandable given her past.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
The way that Harry’s going to set it up is, he’s going to keep Maggie all summer. During the school year, she’s going to go to a boarding school in town, St. Marks Academy for the Gifted and Talented; it’s sort of where the supernatural folks all send their kids. And my intention is, in the next few years I’m going to write kind of a young adult series about Maggie Dresden at the Academy. She’ll be there with Mouse; because she seriously does have all kinds of problems and issues that are challenges for her. She’s got bad social anxiety; she’s got several phobias – which are understandable given her past.
Source: ComicMix - Emily S. Whitten Interview
Date: September 26, 2016
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