Jim Butcher Article

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08 Apr 2009 11:40 #1 by Portia (estark01)

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Hello all,

I have an article about writer/LARPer Jim Butcher up on Book Beast today ( bit.ly/4s4cd ), and I thought folks might be interested in it.

Butcher is the author of the Harry Dresden books as well as the Codex Alera, and I got him to talk about how LARP informs his writing.

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08 Apr 2009 12:20 #2 by Alexandre Blythewood (Eleventh Phoenix)

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Hey, thanks for the article! Butcher is one of my favorite authors, and I look forward to when I have enough money to buy his new book

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08 Apr 2009 14:05 #3 by Bladesworn (Bladesworn)

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Hey, thanks for the article! Butcher is one of my favorite authors, and I look forward to when I have enough money to buy his new book

Libraries are free and will take special requests to get new books.

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08 Apr 2009 16:41 #4 by Bellanear (Alai)

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Plus his books, while fun, are too fast of a read for me to justify the cost of a hardcover.

Libraries ftw!

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08 Apr 2009 17:29 #5 by geezer (geezer)

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Second hand book stores, where hardcovers are often half the price of a ne paperback.

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08 Apr 2009 19:25 #6 by GJSchaller (GJSchaller)

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Back on topic... So apparently the author gets his reference material for action scenes in a best-selling novel series... from playing in a boffer LARP.

Now THAT is cool.

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08 Apr 2009 19:54 #7 by Portia (estark01)

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Added tidbit:

Butcher is running a RPG campaign and forcing his players to go to different areas of that world; it's to help him develop the environment of a high-fantasy epic he wants to write.

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