The Clockwork Angel Cover is REVEALED

If you missed it, shelf-life just posted THIS amazing cover to Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Angel! WOW!!!! Talk about stunning and beautiful!! This is absolutely breathtaking.

Clockwork Angel is the first book in Clare’s new fantasy trilogy, “The Infernal Devices,” and her fourth novel to date. Clare herself is a worldly entertainment-magazine veteran who struck YA gold in 2007, with City of Bones.

In the new series, Clare brings us back to this Shadowhunter-Downworlder universe—and back in time to Victorian-era England. Infernal Devicesrevolves around Tessa Gray, an orphan who heads to London in search of her disappeared brother and, like Clary, falls deeper and deeper into an alternate magical reality. Along the way she finds two good friends in Jem and Will (who graces the new cover), and also crosses paths with some familiar names and faces from the Mortal Instruments saga.

How important is the cover art—designed by Cliff Nielsen, who also made the three “Mortal Instruments” covers—in helping tell a story to the audience, before they even read the first page? What’s this cover all about?

I think it gives you a lot of the atmosphere of these books. The covers are approachable but they’re also otherworldly, and also give some of the setting. You get a feeling of London and from the clothing you get a feeling of the period, but also, it is clearly not a historical novel. In this case too, the little clockwork gears that are scattered in the edges of the cover in order to give that sense of the clockwork people that are in this book. [The novel’s] got touches of that steampunk technology, of gears turnings and mechanisms moving and being wound. So it’s much more tactile.

Why did you and/or Cassandra decide to develop a companion series instead of starting entirely from scratch?

It’s certainly her idea, not mine. She always really wanted to do a Victorian setting, so I think she had that in her mind because she could have so much fun with the period, with that kind of gaslight [technology], with the dresses. She’s lived in a lot of places too, and she wanted to move the settings around. I love the fact that it links into that [Mortal Instruments] world because I think she’s created one that’s so rich, she could do a lot more than just the three books she’s done already, with this idea of the Shadowhunters and their connections to the demon world. There’s a lot there.

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