Jim Butcher, THE DRESDEN FILES novelist: Mr. Media Radio Interview

I am NOT the world’s biggest Harry Potter fan. The only book in the series that I’ve read is the first, which my wife and I took turns reading aloud to my daughter when she was just learning to read herself.

Since then, they’ve consumed each and every book in the series and re-read the books and re-watch the movies over and over.

So I wasn’t sure how interested I’d be when I received the graphic novel version of Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files. More magic? Oy.

But let me tell you, this is one cool series. I love the notion of a wizard operating within the almost real world of Chicago, working at arm’s length from both the police and organized crime. If Harry Potter’s continued into adulthood and into the real world of modern London, I’d probably give them another look.

The Dresden Files began and continues as a series of novels. It was also, briefly, a syndicated television series. If you need a jumping on point, try the graphic novel, which is adapted by Mark Powers and drawn by Ardian Syaf. And then you can follow me backward into reading the books.

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Val Valentino, THE MASKED MAGICIAN MyNetworkTV star: Mr. Media Audio Interview

There are all kinds of magic. There is the classic Harry Houdini practice of pre-technology stunts that utterly baffled crowds and there is the David Copperfield school of big stage, TV magic that leave crowds equally mystified but suspicious that they’ve been somehow conned.

There are other branches of the modern art, of course, including Penn & Teller’s hip, Vegas style, or Criss Angel’s form of street theater magic.

And then there is The Masked Magician, who tears it all down and reveals how the trick are done.

The Masked Magician—who stars in the second season of MyNetworkTV’s “Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed”—is actually Val Valentino, who joins me today.

You can LISTEN to this interview with VAL VALENTINO, THE MASKED MAGICIAN, star of the MyNetworkTV series "MAGIC'S BIGGEST SECRETS FINALLY REVEALED," by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player above!

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