"So basically we got the idea of writing what amounts to ten linked novellas about Magnus that would add up to the Bane Chronicles.
I am actually still waiting on some details — the first installment is likely to be out closer to April than February, just because of the amount of time it takes in production to get it ready for Amazon, and the amount of time to create a cover, etc. After that they should come out roughly every month online until there have been ten. At some point after that, for those who do not like reading things online, they will be bound up into a book."
Sarah Rees Brennan also spoke on the matter on her Tumblr:
"More about the Bane Chronicles above for people’s delectations.
We are SORRY for the delay! We love you! We want to give you monkeys! (Note: that may just be me on the monkey thing.) There’s going to be more news soon! Won’t the Magnus cover be awesome? So, so awesome. I can’t wait to see it. Sparklacious! (Note: I do not speak for Simon & Schuster. They are not legally obliged to make things sparklacious just because I audaciously suggest it.
… But they should. ;) )"
You can see everything that Cassandra Clare talked about in her Tumblr post below:
The Bane Chronicles
"Hey Cassie! I wanna start with: “I’m a huge, /huge/ fan of your work” and a “Iloveyou”. Now that I got that out of the way, I shall proceed to freak out. The Bane Chronicles are real?! You will really write that? Can you be any more awesome? Really, by far one of my favorite modern writers. Magnus is by far one of my favorite characters and you killed my heart a little when Malec stopped being cannon. Okay… I think I’m done fangirling… for now. — twotwentyonefandomstreet
Yes, the Bane Chronicles are real! Like Tinkerbell, but more so, because Tinkerbell does not have a publishing contract.
Basically the Bane Chronicles were born out of me being in France with Maureen Johnson and Sarah Rees Brennan and me mentioning that people often asked for a novel about Magnus, but that I didn’t feel like the novel form really fit Magnus, though I’d like to do a series of linked short stories but I didn’t have time.
Maureen and Sarah had both written essays for Shadowhunters and Downworlders, so their grasp on all things Shadowhunter and Magnus related was particularly keen at the moment. It turned out they had many brilliant ideas for stories about Magnus, including What Happened in Peru, and also What Happened When Magnus Met Will’s Father, and What Happened When Magnus Met Camille, and What Happened When Magnus Was in A Hot Air Balloon and How Magnus Figured Out What To Get Alec for His Birthday.
So basically we got the idea of writing what amounts to ten linked novellas about Magnus that would add up to the Bane Chronicles.
I am actually still waiting on some details — the first installment is likely to be out closer to April than February, just because of the amount of time it takes in production to get it ready for Amazon, and the amount of time to create a cover, etc. After that they should come out roughly every month online until there have been ten. At some point after that, for those who do not like reading things online, they will be bound up into a book.
Each installment will be priced at something reasonable for what is basically a novella (somewhere between 1 and 3 dollars I’d guess) and the cover will be like a regular Mortal Instruments book, featuring Magnus, and for the online publication it will be broken up into ten sections, which as each installment is released will come together to form one big picture.
This kind of project is something of an experiment, as in — not really done much in publishing these days but we thought it would be a fun opportunity to collaborate, to write about a character we all like, and experiment with serial fiction, as in, a story in installments. I feel like there’s a special pleasure to reading a story in installments that is like watching a TV show with episodes in installments. Dickens used to write in installments because his stories were serialized in magazines (Ditto Conan Doyle); we don’t really have that any more, but we do have the internet and online publishing.
That’s all I know about the Bane Chronicles right now but I will of course update as I learn more.
The Bane Chronicles snippet:
And now, some words from The Bane Chronicles (these entirely Sarah’s genius) :
Yes, the Bane Chronicles are real! Like Tinkerbell, but more so, because Tinkerbell does not have a publishing contract.
Basically the Bane Chronicles were born out of me being in France with Maureen Johnson and Sarah Rees Brennan and me mentioning that people often asked for a novel about Magnus, but that I didn’t feel like the novel form really fit Magnus, though I’d like to do a series of linked short stories but I didn’t have time.
Maureen and Sarah had both written essays for Shadowhunters and Downworlders, so their grasp on all things Shadowhunter and Magnus related was particularly keen at the moment. It turned out they had many brilliant ideas for stories about Magnus, including What Happened in Peru, and also What Happened When Magnus Met Will’s Father, and What Happened When Magnus Met Camille, and What Happened When Magnus Was in A Hot Air Balloon and How Magnus Figured Out What To Get Alec for His Birthday.
So basically we got the idea of writing what amounts to ten linked novellas about Magnus that would add up to the Bane Chronicles.
I am actually still waiting on some details — the first installment is likely to be out closer to April than February, just because of the amount of time it takes in production to get it ready for Amazon, and the amount of time to create a cover, etc. After that they should come out roughly every month online until there have been ten. At some point after that, for those who do not like reading things online, they will be bound up into a book.
Each installment will be priced at something reasonable for what is basically a novella (somewhere between 1 and 3 dollars I’d guess) and the cover will be like a regular Mortal Instruments book, featuring Magnus, and for the online publication it will be broken up into ten sections, which as each installment is released will come together to form one big picture.
This kind of project is something of an experiment, as in — not really done much in publishing these days but we thought it would be a fun opportunity to collaborate, to write about a character we all like, and experiment with serial fiction, as in, a story in installments. I feel like there’s a special pleasure to reading a story in installments that is like watching a TV show with episodes in installments. Dickens used to write in installments because his stories were serialized in magazines (Ditto Conan Doyle); we don’t really have that any more, but we do have the internet and online publishing.
That’s all I know about the Bane Chronicles right now but I will of course update as I learn more.
The Bane Chronicles snippet:
And now, some words from The Bane Chronicles (these entirely Sarah’s genius) :
You could not tell a potential customer, expecting a learned and ancient magician, that you were not even fully grown. Magnus had started lying about his age young, and never dropped the habit.
It did get a little embarrassing sometimes when he forgot what lie he’d told to who. Someone had once asked him what Julius Caesar was like, and Magnus had stared for much too long and said ‘… Not tall.’ ’"
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