User blog:Ursuul/Why is Peace Talks taking so long?

Recently, jim-butcher.com’s Upcoming Works page was updated to answer this very question. Sectioned off within its own box, this explanation is present:

Why’s Peace Talks Taking So Long? (An explanation, so you can stop emailing complaints to the feedback box, which doesn’t reach Jim, and mainly just frustrates the folks running this site.) Personal problems/life events spanning the past several years are what gummed up the works.  Got divorced, with all the fallout that comes from that His dog died, who was “the brains of the operation” as Jim tells it Got engaged Moved to another state to live with his fiancee Had to live in an apartment with no private writing space for years longer than intended because the contractor setting up his new house has blown the deadline by a couple years at least  That latter bit made it especially hard for him to get traction on Peace Talks. Thankfully the house is finally inhabitable and Jim’s been back at work. As of December 17th, 2018 the current draft of the novel is up to chapter 38. Progress! — ,

There’s still no release date yet, but unless Peace Talks is going to be especially long (like Cold Days ), this is great progress! A new Dresden Files installment may be just beyond the horizon!