History Creator / JimButcher

[[caption-width-right:234:The Man.[[note]]Back before his hair went out crimefighting. It has since returned and he looks like that again. (At the time of this writing) [[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:234:The Man.[[note]]Back before his hair went out crimefighting. It has since returned and he looks like that again.[[/note]]]]

* CreatorBacklash: Heavily downplayed; while he's still proud of having written them, as noted below under OldShame, Butcher doesn't usually like to talk about the first two books in ''The Dresden Files'' - ''Literature/StormFront'' and ''Literature/FoolMoon'' - as he finds them somewhat uncomfortable indicators of how mediocre he used to be as a writer. And the less said about "A Restoration of Faith" (a short story set in the Dresdenverse which Butcher openly considers to be an embarrassing first draft) the better.

Jim Butcher has also written a ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' novel, entitled ''Literature/SpiderManTheDarkestHours'', and is currently working on a SteamPunk series, ''Literature/TheCinderSpires''.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Quite fond of these. Consider that his two main book series are respectively about a vampire-hunting wizard FilmNoir OccultDetective and prehistoric monster-riding Roman Legionaries who can control more elemental forms of {{Franchise/Pokemon}}.

* PyrrhicVictory: The "loser" in such a confrontation in the late 1990s. When on a chat room, he took a challenge that one could take two "bad" ideas and make them into a compelling story. The challenger gave him ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}'' and LostRomanLegion. After some research and playing with the concepts, he had a good basis for a story and was unsure how posting the idea to the internet in those days would affect his publishing rights and ownership of the idea. So, he explained this to the other guy, who believed he was right because Butcher had nothing. Butcher decided to let the matter drop. The man might've won the argument, but Butcher ultimately got a six-book deal out of it.

** In regards to ''The Dresden Files'', Butcher absolutely loves to add references to Franchise/MarvelComics, helped by Butcher being a huge Marvel fan in real life. Just as an example, Harry Dresden at one point claims to follow "the Tao of [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]," and Butcher himself has freely admitted that Harry Dresden's character was originally conceived as "What if Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive wizard instead of a radioactive spider?"