Author Jim Butcher

ction from agents and editors, Butcher’s Storm Front the first book in Dresden Files got published by Roc Books in 2000. The novel revolves around the protagonist Harry Dresden. He is a private investigator and a wizard living in Chicago. The story is narrated in the first-person narrative. In Dresden’s world all the fantastical and supernatural creatures are real like demons, faeries, ghouls, zombies and vampires etc. The Chicago Police Department hires Dresden as a consultant to solve cases of supernatural nature as the general public is unaware of their existence. Also the human wizards have a governing body called The White Council which monitors the actions of each wizard closely as discretion among humans is their most basic rule.



Dresden Files became a phenomenal series with its first publication. And till now there have been 15 Dresden novels written and published in the series. The series has been narrated in the form of audiobooks, a role-playing game was also released featuring Dresden and a few graphic novels have been published based on the books as well. Moreover, the novels were adapted into a one-season television series aired in 2007. It received mixed reviews by the series fans.

Subsequent to the success of Dresden Files, Jim Butcher started off a new traditional fantasy fiction project titled, The Codex Alera. The series is set in the Calderon Valley of Alera and narrates the events in the life of a young man named, Tavi. Alera is somewhat modeled after the Roman Empire. The rich and powerful rule the people of Alera with furies, a mighty elemental force. The first novel in the series was published in 2004 entitled, Furies of Calderon. Originally Butcher signed a deal for writing a trilogy, but the success of the series had him write 3 more books in the series. The next three novels climbed the New York Times Best Seller list instantly.

In addition to these phenomenal series, Butcher also wrote a few short stories pertaining to the same genre. These short stories include Welcome to the Jungle (2008), Even Hand (2010), Curses (2011), Bigfoot on Campus (2012), and Bombshells (2013). It has been reported that Jim Butcher has signed a deal to pen a trilogy based on steampunk, entitled ‘The Cinder Spires’. The first book in the series is rumored to have the title The Aeronaut’s Windlass.