Re: Jim Butcher in the NY Times

https://archive.is/M6wQw
  Three decades ago, Jim Butcher put pen to paper and invented
a wildly popular fictional universe. At the time, he was
just trying to finish his homework.
  Butcher, then a 25-year-old grad student at the University
of Oklahoma, had days earlier turned in an unfinished novel
for a writing class. The book was about a wisecracking
Chicago gumshoe named Harry Dresden, a wizard whose miserable
love life was occasionally interrupted by a grisly supernatural
murder.
  Butcher's professor liked what she read. She told him to
bring an outline for "the rest of it" to their next session.
"She meant the rest of the novel," Butcher recalled in an
interview. "The next week, I rolled in with an outline for
a 20-book series."
 It's not all ducks & bunnies in his life though.