I know it will land in science fiction and we’ll call it steampunk.

But there is no actual section for a “steam opera” in the bookstore. I believe that The Cinder Spires is like a steampunk opera. At the same time, however, I have to consider how I will talk about this, or present this, to the fans. For example: with The Cinder Spires I would say it’s a steampunk story but it has fantasy elements to it. The only consideration for genres I take when I’m writing is when I think about how I’m going to market the book to an editor. You know there’s a story within you and it has gotta get out, and it doesn’t care about genre conventions. I really think that’s the motivation for why they do it. As far as writers go, writers write because if they didn’t they would probably lose their minds. To me, genres are not for writers they are really for bookstores and then for readers. Jim Butcher On The Problem of “Genre” Classifications for Authors Urban Fantasy Showcase: 40 Authors To Know

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Complete list of books Interviews with Jim Butcher Fox21 Television Studios have optioned the rights to develop another TV show. The Dresden Files has also expanded into other formats, ranging from short stories and a role playing game to the short-lived 2007 television series. Jim Butcher celebrated the 20th anniversary of Storm Front, the first novel in the series, with two new additions to the Dresden Files cannon- Peace Talks (Dresden Files #16) and Battle Ground (Dresden Files #17). When I realized wizards and PIs were the same character, it became real easy.” Whether they are plunging into the underworld of Chicago’s criminal scene or plunging into the literal underworld like in LOTR, they’re both people who go to dark places and are a threat, not necessarily because of what they can do, but mostly because of what they know. “They perform the same role they just have a different hat on. “I realized wizards and private eyes do the exact same things,” Butcher told Strand Magazine. The world’s only “consulting wizard,” he faces off against a variety of beings-including spirits, vampires, werewolves, and other monsters-accepting cases from human and nonhuman clients, as well as the Chicago PD’s Special Investigation unit. The Dresden Files is a hard-boiled detective and urban fantasy series by Jim Butcher that follows private investigator and wizard Harry Dresden, who investigates supernatural cases in Chicago. “When I realized wizards and PIs were the same character, it became real easy.”

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