{"name": "Jim Butcher", "bio": "\"Jim Butcher is a martial arts enthusiast with fifteen years of experience in various styles including Ryukyu Kempo, Tae Kwon Do, Gojo Shorei Ryu, and a sprinkling of Kung Fu. He is a skilled rider and has worked as a summer camp horse wrangler and performed in front of large audiences in both drill riding and stunt riding exhibitions.\r\n\r\nJim enjoys fencing, singing, bad science fiction movies and live-action gaming. He lives in Missouri with his wife, son, and a vicious guard dog.\r\n\r\nJim goes by the moniker Longshot in a number of online locales. He came by this name in the early 1990\u2032s when he decided he would become a published author. Usually only 3 in 1000 who make such an attempt actually manage to become published; of those, only 1 in 10 make enough money to call it a living. The sale of a second series was the breakthrough that let him beat the long odds against attaining a career as a novelist.\r\n\r\nAll the same, he refuses to change his nickname.\"\r\n[Jim-Butcher.com][1]\r\n\r\n\r\n  [1]: http://www.jim-butcher.com/jim", "links": [{"title": "Offical Website", "url": "https://www.jim-butcher.com", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Author's Livejournal (Old)", "url": "https://jimbutcher.livejournal.com", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Fantastic Fiction Author Entry", "url": "https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/jim-butcher/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "ISFDB Author Entry", "url": "https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6762", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Little Stack Author Entry", "url": "https://www.littlestack.com/author/jim-butcher", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "photos": [14852556, 14852555, 14852554, 6975518], "birth_date": "26 October 1971", "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q1367995", "viaf": "32309016", "isni": "000000011441021X", "goodreads": "10746", "gnd": "13237885X", "imdb": "nm0124688", "musicbrainz": "71f482dc-c4e2-40f4-bf43-9d941c4bb450", "storygraph": "e399bc8c-18a4-4d83-abd1-bb2ee41bc242", "inventaire": "wd:Q1367995", "lc_naf": "n2006050784", "librarything": "butcherjim-1", "opac_sbn": "UBOV854756"}, "personal_name": "Jim Butcher", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "source_records": ["amazon:0345516206", "amazon:1841494038"], "alternate_names": ["J. Butcher", "Butcher, J.", "Butcher, Jim"], "key": "/authors/OL5152266A", "latest_revision": 18, "revision": 18, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-09-26T14:04:01.530087"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-28T21:55:31.020758"}}