Connecting with the Audience Jim Butcher

Author Jim Butcher speaks to the audience at Wyrd Con 4 on How to Connect With the Audience. Learn more at www.wyrdcon.com

[@GuerraTribolet]

I have read every single one of your books. You are phenomenal. I appreciate you so much. I've been in a tough spot lately, and your ability to take me out of the world and place me into a new one is captivating. Thank you. Looking forward to more from you! I am loyal to you as an author indefinitely.

[@mrjason6066]

kick butt. a good prerequisite for this would be Deborah Chester's fantasy fiction formula.

[@theotherworld101]

Anyone read any Lois McMaster Bujold, I haven't is there a good place to start?

[@RamBam3000]

Which series do you want? The Sharing Knife is a four book self contained series so ya gotta start with the first one. The Chalion series is more stand alone, so you can read them in any order. I started the Vorkosigan series with "Borders of infinity" - three short stories set at various points in the sequence held together with a framing device, then read "Mirror Dance". I then went back and picked up the first two: "Shard of Honour" and "Barrayar" which is the introductory arc to the series. Lois is completely awesome, both as a person and as a story-teller. I will gladly read anything she wants to write. You will never regret becoming addicted.

[@RamBam3000]

Oh, by the way, the way Jim is sitting is the way one of the most important characters in the Vorkosigan series sits.

[@theotherworld101]

thanks loads, I'm going to try get my hands on these books now, i read one, well audio booked one while i was drawing, about a engineer on a space ship, with a species created with 4 arms, no legs, in space, I'm not describing it well, but i enjoyed it, I'm currently listening to the darth bane books from star wars, an I just finished all the jack reacher books, lol, they were ok, pretty much all the same, but i had to finish once i started, i think i did 16 books back to back, got about 3 more to go

[@RamBam3000]

I know exactly the one you mean.... "Falling Free" about the quaddies and their escape from the corporation which built and owns them, along with a human engineer who becomes their friend - and hero. It's the "prequel", I guess to the Vorkosigan series.

[@jimbutcher5712]

+RamBam3000 I know, right? I can't sit any other way when I'm trying to be leader-teacher guy. I blame Lois.

[@gildartswinters4984]

"Check yourself and see if there are any metal parts that are sticking through you." So, Jim. What you are saying is this? "Check yourself because you wrecked yourself? Reasonable.

[@TheRealOtakuEdits]

Timestamp for myself 8:14

[@TheRealOtakuEdits]

31:13 child protagonist

[@Mikeztarp]

The guy saying urban fantasy was a young genre made me laugh. Have you heard of Bram Stoker, sir?

[@windsmack14]

Dracula and his other works are considered gothhic or victorian. The term urban fantasy, from a marketing stand point only really became a term and was used as far back as the 1920s. which foor other genres is supppper young. thats what he means, if you even look up urban fantasy you get a lot of books made in the last 30 years as apposed to 100.