ICYMI: Cassie Clare clears up Malec comment and more!

In case you missed it, here's the latest info from Cassandra Clare, clearing up the statement made about Malec at the recent Mexico City signing, as well as giving us some tidbits about the Herondale last name and a some juicy spoilery details about City of Heavenly Fire and The Dark Artifices.

Q&A 

[COFA SPOILER]Question: Cassandra, I heard that you said in Mexico City that Magnus would forgive Alec, is that true? 

Cassie: There seems to be a lot of semi-true stuff floating around based on my appearance in Mexico City — remember everything I said had to be filtered through a translation headpiece! I said, in fact, “Magnus forgives what Alec did but that does not mean they get back together.” I mean, Magnus is not a bitter grudge-holder so I never thought it would be a surprise that he would not be furious with Alec forever. :) So their chances of getting back together are exactly the same as before.

Question: Hello! Um, so I was wondering: does Jace ever begin to use Herondale as his surname(even if just on paper)? Or at least does the Herondale name exist outside of Jace? It just makes me sad to think that the Herondale line will disappear after getting so attached to Will and Cecy.— aquilaswing 

Cassie: All I can say is that the continuing existence of the Herondale name is addressed in CoFA!

Question: I know a lot of people on the Shadowhunter wiki, including me, are Downworlder sympathizers, and we were wondering, will we be learning more about them (like almost as much as we know about the Nephilim) in the future series? I’m optimistic that since Mark & Helen are half-fey, we’ll learn more about the Fair Folk in TDA. But more about warlocks would be pretty cool, too.

Cassie: You are definitely right that you will be learning a lot more about the Fair Folk in TDA. They’re a big part of the story. They’re also a big part of CoHF, maybe in ways you might not expect? There have been some hints scattered through CoFA and CoLS about the part they play. And there is a big political issue that has to do with them toward the end.
TDA also features a new warlock character — the High Warlock of Los Angeles.

Question: Ms. Clare, I recently read the snippet of Julian and Emma from COHF and the writing with their fingers really stuck with me. When I was younger, there was one year when my cousins and I went to about five funerals and to console each other in the pews we would do the exact same thing as Julian and Emma, and we still do to this day. Thank you for that detail, and for the books that brought magic back into my life. — make-dreams-your-master 

Cassie: Aw…I teared up a bit . .. It is a thing I used to do with my best friend when we were kids. Though we sucked at figuring out the letters we were tracing half the time and were like “What do you mean, is there any newts?” “Not newts! NEWS!”

Question: * 1234 is etched on the base of Raziel’s statue, along with the Shadowhunter motto, above the entrance to the Silent City. What’s the year’s relevance to their history? 

Cassie: That is the year that Shadowhunters began looking better in black than the widows of their enemies. Previously when wearing black they looked only equally as good, or worse, than the widows of their enemies.

TLH Series Title and Book Titles Revealed

Shadowhunters have been guessing for months now what the letters of Cassandra Clare's book series TLH stand for. The Bookseller spilled the beans today when they announced that Walker Books has acquired rights for the new trilogy, The Last Hours.

Clare took to her tumblr blog to share the news with her fans. She explained the title for the new trilogy, which is set in 1903, comes from the book Great Expectations. The titles of the three books - Chain of Thorns, Chain of Gold, and Chain of Iron, are also a reference to great expectations. The first book is set for release in 2017.

Although set in different time periods and locations, The Last Hours trilogy will be interconnected with The Dark Artifices trilogy.

What do you think about the new series title? Let us know in the comments!

Cassandra Clare Talks About Parabatais, TLH, CoHF, and MORE!

Cassandra Clare took to her tumblr account to answer a few questions a fan sent her through an email. There are some great questions that fan asked and vital answers from Cassie. You can read the whole thing below:

“hi cassie! i have a couple questions that i figured I’d ask through email because its always really hectic on twitter so:- can parabatai be love interests? i thought they couldn’t but emma/julian are right? that always kinda confused me- so you’re writing the dark artifices, TLH, & are you writing another shadowhunter book aside from those as well?- are we gonna see tessa/will/ jem in cohf?”Yes, twitter has become a bit of a madhouse - I can only get on for a few minutes, and then there are so many questions I can’t follow them (usually about things I know nothing about and can’t influence, like what countries there will be movie premieres in and where the cast goes) and then I run away. I am a a wuss, I guess! But if I don’t answer you on Twitter, it’s not personal!“- can parabatai be love interests? i thought they couldn’t but emma/julian are right? that always kinda confused me”The Clave says no. You’re not supposed to be romantically involved with yourparabatai. In Clockwork Prince, one of the plot points is a past pair of parabatai, one of whom committed suicide because he’d fallen in love with his parabatai and was afraid of the secret being exposed.The Clave has their reasons for this old Law. However, like pretty much every cultural/social law decreeing that people can’t fall in love or can’t marry, plenty of people break it. It’s not like no priest has ever fallen in love with anyone. And Emma and Julian’s relationship isn’t defined yet - not even by me! We know there is probably going to be an issue of romantic interest, but they are not a couple at the beginning of the books. They might never be a couple. We will see.- so you’re writing the dark artifices, TLH, & are you writing another shadowhunter book aside from those as well?My plan at the moment is to do five Shadowhunter series, total. I don’t know if I’ll do any series in the Shadowhunter world beyond that. I don’t know why five exactly — maybe because one of my major literary idols has always been Tamora Pierce and she did five series set in Tortall. :) Maybe I think I have five stories to tell in this world. Maybe I’ll get to the end and want to tell more. Maybe not — I have a stockpile of other worlds and stories in my head; I’m writing one of them by writing Magisterium now, but there are many others.There is a special sort of enjoyment in developing stories in a created world, because you can take the rules you yourself have invented, and bend them or break them. You can create connections and history — the story of Isabelle’s ruby necklace stretches back all the way to Vampires, Scones and Edmund Herondale. Then again, with a brand new world, you get to make everything up again. It’s like: brand-new baby or adorable five-year old? They’re both good.
(The five Shadowhunter series are TiD, TLH, TMI, TDA, and very far down the road, TWP. Don’t even ask about that one! It’s too far in the future! There are other Shadowhunter projects like The Bane Chronicles and the graphic novel project about the Circle, currently in planning stages and known as TST, but I’m not counting them: I’m only counting book series/trilogies written solely by me.)- are we gonna see tessa/will/ jem in cohf?”I cannot say, because those are major spoilers. All I will say is that nobody from TiD is going to be a major character in CoHF because it’s too confusing and too spoilery for the mass majority of TMI readers, who have not read TiD. (There are also plenty of TiD readers who won’t read TMI — historical can be tricky; people either won’t read it at all, or will only read it, a lot of the time.) TMI is still Clary’s story at heart. I think for TiD readers there will be a lot of interesting connections, and the fact that Tessa is still alive is not a huge secret (we saw her in CoG) but nothing in CoHF is going to give away the ending of the Clockwork series to people who haven’t read it, and that includes who Tessa ends up with. Keep that in mind, and hopefully that can help shape expectations.

Wow Cassie is a very busy woman! Five Shadowhunter series in total plus a graphic novel and another series (Magisterium) to come! Well all I can say is I'm thrilled and cannot wait to read the next series to come!

What do you guys think? Leave your comments below!

New Shadowhunter Tarot Card: The Dark Artifices Spoiler!

Cassandra Clare shared another one of Cassandra Jean's Shadowhunter tarot cards on her tumblr account. The new tarot card is a Dark Artifices spoiler. 

Photo: So Cassandra Jean has finished the complete Shadowhunter Tarot, so for the next … seventy-something... tmblr.co/ZAIltwmeLqMd
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) June 5, 2013

 

On her tumblr post, Cassie also explains the concept of this new tarot card:

So Cassandra Jean has finished the complete Shadowhunter Tarot, so for the next … seventy-something days I’ll be posting a card a day (okay, maybe not every day — I tend to get distracted!)  in order, from the first card to the last. Some will be under spoiler cuts; some you’ll have seen before — I’ll explain why each character has the card they have. 

We’ve moved on from the Major Arcana to the minor Arcana — the first suit is the suit of Rings, which takes the place of the suit of Pentacles. The Five of Rings is the Blackthorn ring. It shows the Blackthorn family, TDA-era, in all their glory. Tiberius looking crabby as usual, Julian messing around, Mark being serious. 

The Five of Pentacles  (Rings here) can often represent going forward after suffering a loss.

I wonder what loss the Blackthorn family is suffering from. I guess we will have to wait until March 2015 when the first novel of the series is released! 

What do you guys think of the new tarot card? And any guesses of the loss the Blackthorns are suffering from?

Two new Shadowhunter Tarots featuring Jem and Emma Carstairs and Brother Zachariah!

After giving us Jace and Alec, Simon and Isabelle and Warlocks cards, Cassandra Clare has shared two more Tarot cards by Cassandra Jean on her Tumblr. She also talks Clockwork Princess and TLH.

WARNING: THE BELOW MATERIAL CONTAINS CLOCKWORK PRINCESS SPOILERS.

Below is what Cassie had to say about Clockwork Princess and new series TLH:

In fact it was really fun for me to come up with a family tree that was massively misleading. Remember, family trees are found objects — they contain only as much information as whoever drew them had. Secret marriages, arranged marriages, people being secretly dead, people being secretly other people: the family tree doesn’t reflect any of that. In fact, some of the most important characters (One of whom is a certain JH’s parabatai) don’t appear on the family tree at all.

In fact, when the Bane Chronicle is released that takes place during/around TLH*, I think everyone is going to be like: “HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? IT DOES NOT MATCH UP.” But it does, in the end…

*TLH: the series that comes between TID and TMI, that takes place around 1903, that I have stated the acronym for (TLH) but not the full name, that has no deadline or planned publication dates because while I am having lots of fun working on the idea, I don’t want to work to deadline right now so that means it’s a WIP.

Also, Sarah would like you to know that TLH stands for The Largest Hamburger.

More TLH stuff, spoilery, under the cut.

“I just wanted to say how amazing your books are, and how much I love them! All of your writing has made me look at love in a different way, and thank you so much for that. But I just wanted to ask if we would be seeing Will Herondale (as his older self) at any time in your new series of books TLH because it is set in the early 1900’s? — shaliwali”

Yes. Will is James and Lucie’s father and James and Lucie (among others — Christopher and Grace and Cordelia and Alastair and Colin and Matthew and Charles and Jesse) are the main characters in the book. So of course, we see their parents. In fact, in one of the upcoming Bane Chronicles — the one that features James — you’ll get a sense of how much we will see them.

““Hi Miss Clare, I’ve been a big fan of your books for years and could barely wait to pick up The Clockwork Princess, so much so that I tanked the whole thing in around 6 hours (partially also due to university commitments). What I’m wondering however, has to do with the shadowhunter family tree on the book sleeve. Many of the family lines, including that of gideon’s lightwood line, come with the statement “see extended lightwood family tree.” Will we ever get to see the extended family trees? I would personally love to get more insight into shadow hunter families. Thanks for writing — little-mollusk”

Aaaand that is precisely why I didn’t include a lot of family trees: the Blackthorns, the Carstairs, the Fairchilds, the Lightwoods. I think having some information is good but not all of it. :) Maybe after TDA and TLH, I’ll do the whole family trees.

“Hi Cassie! I was just wondering. It seems like we will be getting plenty of Jessa in the upcoming books - Heavenly Fire, especially. Will be able to also have more Wessa? I’d love to know more about the time they were married…Thank you!!! — literary-darling”

Well, TLH will be all Will and Tessa, married, because it takes place in 1903, so — Will and Tess are in their thirties and you get to see plenty of the loving couple that they are. There’s also a whole Bane Chronicle, the one about James Herondale, where you get a sense of what they’re like.

A lot of people have asked about whether Jem will be in CoHF or in TDA — as he clearly remains Brother Zachariah through City of Lost Souls — and unfortunately I can’t say much (there’s no reason to assume Jessa in CoHF. COHF might well be before the epilogue of CP2). Most of the things I could say about where Jem and Tessa will appear again and what they will be doing are spoilery. However I will show you two cards that Cassandra Jean drew that aren’t being used in the final tarot deck. The first is just Brother Zachariah — she drew him before she knew who he was, so now she says she has to redraw him. Here he is though, months January through December of the Hot Silent Brothers calendar :)

 

And this — it doesn’t take place anywhere specific, which is why Jem’s hair color is off, it’s a sort of symbolic image — but it’s a nice idea, isn’t it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cassie Clare answers TID, TMI, TDA and TLH questions on twitter!

Fresh off of her last stop on the Clockwork Princess tour, Cassandra Clare took some time to answer fan questions. She answered questions about, Clockwork Princess, The Infernal Devices, The Mortal Instruments, characters and her new series TLH.

WARNING: SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.

RT @paynefulness: " Will Simon ever come up with a name for his band or will it be changing" it has a final one in CoHF..that is a bit sad.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @littledhampir16: " What are you coming to the UK in June to research for?" *mysterious look*
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013
 

RT @danniecresta: " the descendants trilogy?;) have you already decided what you're calling them?" yep! 3 books, set around 1903.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @ughustuswaters: "planning any other books now besides TDA and CoHF? or a non-Shadowhunter series?" Yes, I am also writing Magisterium.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @powerofrunes: " did you think (when you were writing it) of other possible ends for Clockwork Princess?" Definitely not!
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @freakingcalie: " do characters from infernal make appearances in the 1903 bks?" they would be adults..it would be about their kids.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @noahelliotshaw: "I love your Shadowhunter series' but do you ever plan on creating a whole new world?" bit.ly/10eSSg3
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @carstairsjem: Raphael Santiago is in good relationships with Magnus Bane?" they have a past -- it's in the Bane Chronicles!
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @citysince1234: " so is the order of the books TiD, the 1903 books, TMI?" then TDA. You can call the 1903 books TLH. :)
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @cityoffandoms: " can you tell us what TLH stands for?" not yet. :)
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @sabalaaa95: " if we bring Robert Downey Jr will you tell us what TLH stands for, pretty please??" yes. But don't do anything illegal.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @ohpandabear: " have you already written something about LTH?" I have outlines, and some f the characters are in the Bane Chronicles
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @trufflehunter_: " does jem's drug really exist?" no. I based it on opium. But no.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @finnickly: " was tessa's love future obvious to you or did you come up with it while writing the books?" it was the reason I wrote them.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @cheronnii: " is anything spicy happening between jace and clary in CoHF?" oh yes. You will have to put the book in the freezer. :)
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013
 

RT @sammy_oulton: "will we find out who Sebastian's 'beautiful one' is?" yes.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @heartingirons: how many more books are you working on." five. Yikes.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @mariahsmith234: " so there will be another series after TLH?" one after TDA. It goes TiD-TLH-TMI-TDA-Sekrit unnamed project
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @trufflehunter_: " Is Jamie Campbell Bower like jace in real life?" yes. Alarmingly.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @paynefulness: " is robert sheehan anything like simon in real life" Like a more filthy version.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @princessofidris: " How many years between the end of TDA & the beginning of the 'secret trilogy' after TDA?" about three, in book time.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @clubfandemonium: " Will we ever find out who Magnus' father is!?!" yes.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @lotusfalling: @aidanturnerutd "i was just saying today "Why no Luke/Aidan in the promo material?" I would like more too. :) @mortalmovie
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @victorycrumb: " Is Godfrey Gao like Magnus in real life?" No. He is shy and sweet mostly.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013
 

RT @tasshadowhunter:"So this new series (TLH) is being released? When?" I don't know, I want to work on something without a deadline.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @nickartnikola: " any plans on writing a trilogy 100/200 years after TDA?" SHADOWHUNTERS IN SPACE
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @tobi4seaton: "Is it true that you'll write a book with a gay main character." yes.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @lulug11: "will TDA be around the same time as TMI ?" five years later.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

RT @caseyydye: " Have you considered making a movie to go along with Clockwork Angel?" authors don't decide what gets made into movies!
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

Was your question answered? Are you excited about a new shadowhunter book?

Cassie Clare heads to Los Angeles to do research for THE DARK ARTIFICES!

On Tuesday, Cassie wrapped up the last stop of the Clockwork Princess tour in Vancouver. Now Cassandra Clare is headed to Los Angeles to research for The Dark Artifices.
 

RT @lcdarkmoon: " @sarahreesbrenna What about the bus? And the hot guys on it?" Alas! The tour is over! we go to LA now. TDA research.
— Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) March 27, 2013

Here is the synopsis:

Los Angeles, 2012. It’s been five years since the events of the Mortal Instruments when Nephilim stood poised on the brink of oblivion and Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs lost her parents. After the blood and violence she witnessed as a child, Emma has dedicated her life to the eradication of demons and being the best, fastest and deadliest Shadowhunter since Jace Lightwood. Raised in the Los Angeles Institute, Emma is paired as a parabatai with her best friend, Julian. As Emma hunts those who caused the death of her parents, the trail they’re following leads back to those they’ve always been taught to trust. At the same time, Emma is falling in love with Julian — her closest friend and, because he is her parabatai, the one person in the world she’s absolutely forbidden by Shadowhunter Law to love. Set against the glittering backdrop of present-day Los Angeles, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches from the warlock-run nightclubs of the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica.

The first book of The Dark Artifices is expected to be in stores in March 2015.

SPOILER ALERT: Cassandra Clare answers fans questions on Canadian book tour!

Today Cassandra Clare did a Q&A with eOne Films at her last stop on her Clockwork Princess tour in Vancouver, Canada.

WARNING: SOME OF THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN THE VIDEO CONTAIN SPOILERS ABOUT CLOCKWORK PRINCESS. WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK!

The Q&A starts at 26:11. Hope you guys enjoy

ICYMI: Shadowhunter Tarot

I like to call this In Case You Missed It: Shadowhunter Tarot edition.  With so many of these posting, here are some of the ones we, and you, may have missed.

Tessa Gray The Masked

Tessa, The Masked, was snuck in as what appeared as a duplicate post a few weeks ago.

 

Source: http://cassandraclare.tumblr.com/post/42670491922/now-with-tessa-taking-the-star-card

Legends

Cassie had this to say about this featured group.

More of Cassandra Jean’s Shadowhunter Tarot! There are a lot more Major Arcana, but I thought it would be cool to look at one of the suits. The suit of Swords is replaced by the suit of Seraph Blades,or just Blades — Jonathan being King since he’s the father of all seraph blades, Jocelyn as Queen, Young Valentine as the Knight, and Young Hodge (looking rather endearing) as the Page (a card that can turn up meaning spying or betrayal.) 

 

Source: http://cassandraclare.tumblr.com/post/43157869049/more-of-cassandra-jeans-shadowhunter-tarot-there

The Infernal Devices

Cassie had this to say:
In honor of Clockwork Princess being ONLY ONE MONTH AWAY, two very different married couples from the Infernal Devices as depicted in Cassandra Jean’s Shadowhunter Tarot. Henry, The Scientist, takes the Fool Card, Charlotte the Justice card, Nate the seven of swords and Jessamine the eight of swords (often shown as a prisoner.)
Cassandra Jean and I are trying to figure out if there’s a way to have the Tarot printed and sold/distributed. I don’t want it to be expensive, or only available in one country, and since this wasn’t conceived of as something to sell, I’m not sure how to work it. But if people want to own it, I want them to be able to. So we’re working on it!

 Source: http://cassandraclare.tumblr.com/post/43418464735/in-honor-of-clockwork-princess-being-only-one

The Dark Artificies

Cassie had this to say:

Hi! I’m a huge fan of your books. Can you say more things about The Dark Artifices (it hasn’t came out yet but I already love it).

— 1amy2

That is both extremely flattering and makes me feel like eek! The pressure! Okay, well, here are the twins. Livia and Tiberius — Livvy and Ty as part of Cassandra Jean’s Shadowhunter Tarot.
Almost all the Blackthorns have the same brown hair and blue-green eyes, but Ty doesn’t look like the rest of him. them has black hair and gray eyes. He’s fifteen and skinny and wants to be a detective. Specifically he wants to be Sherlock Holmes, though nobody else in the Shadowhunter world understand why. :) He’s brilliant and odd, and a few minutes younger than Livvy, who believes it’s her job to protect him, and in fact, protect her whole family, since she thinks they’re all a bit on the hapless dreamer/starry-eyed artist side. Livvy’s very practical. :)

Source: http://cassandraclare.tumblr.com/post/43240623248/hi-im-a-huge-fan-of-your-books-can-you-say-more

Alec & Izzy

Cassie had this to say:

More of Cassandra Jean’s Shadowhunter Tarot!   Here Alec and Isabelle take the place of the Tower Card, only with the Institute as the Tower in the background.

 Source: http://cassandraclare.tumblr.com/post/42827060437/more-of-cassandra-jeans-shadowhunter-tarot

Book titles revealed for THE DARK ARTIFICES series

Cassandra Clare, beloved author of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices, took to Twitter today share the titles of The Dark Artifices books.

The book titles refer to nobility titles:

Lady Midnight
Prince of Shadows
The Queen of Air and Darkness

What do you think of the new titles? Share your thoughts below.

SHADOWHUNTER TAROT CARD series posted via Tumblr

Cassandra Jean, an illustrator known for her work within the young adult book genre, has created a set of Shadowhunter Tarot cards. There will be 22 in the series in all starting with The Dark Artifices.

Cassie Clare, author of the Shadowhunter Chronicle books The Infernal Devices, The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices shared thoughts on each one.

Cassie: (Isn’t Jules adorable?) They don’t have the same titles as the Major Arcana of the real Tarot, but you can see by their numbers what cards they match up to (Julian, #4, matches The Emperor.)

Cassie: Emma, the Warrior, matches the Empress card. That’s right, my baby, you look tough.

Cristina, looking fierce with her butterfly knife, taking the card of the High Priestess.

Cassie: We’re further into the Arcana, with the characters from other series showing up. Here Will takes the place of the Hanged Man, bound in an impossible situation.

Cassie: Here Jace takes the place of the Strength Card, only as an angel.

Cassie also said, "A couple of people have asked me if there’s any plans to sell the Shadowhunter Tarot but it hadn’t crossed my mind, really! They’re meant to be fun — maybe Cassandra and I can figure out a way to make them downloadable/printable.

We will post more from the set as they become available. What's your favorite one so far? Be sure to let us know in the comments below.

Cassandra Clare does a Character Q&A with fans!

Cassandra Clare hasn't been on Twitter in a while so she decided to do a Character Q&A with fans. 

Learn things about The Mortal Instruments,The Infernal Devices and The Dark Artifices characters that you've never known. Check out the tweets below:

What is your favorite thing that you've learned about your favorite character?