However, Maya’s past life is about to come back to haunt her in the form of her former pimp, Tripp Gregory, who initiates a bogus lawsuit against Maya’s company for a ridiculous sum. Working hard, Maya has managed to turn her tutoring business into a viable, if low-profit, franchise that prioritises helping as many children as possible. Determined to snap Dresden out of his funk, his friends decide to get him back to basics and introduce him to someone in need of a good investigator.Įnter Maya, a former prostitute turned tutor whose grassroots education company helps to supplement the education of Chicago’s working-class children. However, Dresden is primarily mourning the tragic death of his love, Karrin Murphy, and even his new responsibilities as lord of a castle and protector of Chicago isn’t enough to keep his mind off his loss. Set a month after the events of Battle Ground, The Law sees Harry Dresden and the city of Chicago still recovering from the invasion of the Titan Ethniu and her forces, which resulted in significant destruction.
This dive into the older novels, plus my lingering enjoyment of Battle Ground, ensured that I was ready and eager for any new Dresden Files content that came my way, and Butcher just delivered with his latest novella, The Law. So far, I have been able to read the first four Dresden Files novels, Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril and Summer Knight, all of which have been pretty impressive and captivating reads.
In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I went back and started reading the series from the beginning. While I did enter this series late in the game, I still had an outstanding time with Battle Ground and it ended up being one of my top books and audiobooks of 2020. People may remember that I first got into the Dresden Files back in 2020 when I checked out the 17 th entry in the series, Battle Ground. The Dresden Files are a long running series of urban fantasy novels that follow protagonist Harry Dresden, a wizard who protects the people of Chicago from the magic beings and creatures they don’t even know exist. However, I had to make an exception for the latest Dresden Files novella that Jim Butcher just dropped, as I have been deeply enjoying this epic series. This isn’t so much a deliberate choice as I just prefer whole books I can really sink my teeth into. Readers of this blog might have noticed that I usually don’t go out of my way to read too many novellas or short stories and instead usually focus on full-length novels and comics. Prepare to dive back into the wild world of Jim Butcher’s iconic Dresden Files series with the latest impressive novella, The Law. Rideback Rise, the company’s nonprofit arm, which hopes to raise $2 million in total this year, will oversee a fellowship program for writers, directors, podcast creators, and other artists of color selected each year who want to launch a project.Publisher: Podium Audio (Audiobook – 5 July 2022)
And only a third of film writers are people of color, according to a recent study by the University of California at Los Angeles.
We’re really determined to break through these restricted access points, enlarge the funnel, and activate more creatives of color.” Just three in 10 film directors are Black, Latino, Asian-American, multiracial, or Native American. “The only scarcity is opportunity, the funding and the risk-taking that’s always existed at the center of this Hollywood content machine. “There’s no shortage of talented, diverse creators, artists, and entrepreneurs,” said Lin, founder and CEO of the film and television company Rideback. His goal is to help more people of color create and produce film, television, digital, and audio projects. Hollywood film producer Dan Lin - known for movies such as Disney’s live action “Aladdin” and “The Two Popes” - is launching a nonprofit with more than $1 million from the Ford and MacArthur foundations as well as several other philanthropies.