The Latest Cassie News!

Clockwork Angel won the Silver Inky Award!! YAY! Clockwork Angel won for the most popular international book! We're so thrilled that Clockwork Angel is winning big this year (as it should). Congratulations Cassie!!!

Cassie's updated her UK tour page. Here's the latest on her London and Ireland signings:

Wednesday, October 26: London (tomorrow!)
Foyle’s 1-3 pm
113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EB
With Sarah Rees Brennan*
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7437 5660


October 27: Dublin: 6pm
Easons: 40 Lower O’Connell Street
Phone 01 858 3800
With Sarah Rees Brennan*

October 28: Galway: 4:30
Easons
33 Shop Street Galway, Ireland
I’ll be signing from 4:30 on.

* Technically these are ticketed events but only the pre-signing presentation is ticketed. You don't need tickets to show up and get your books signed, get the giveaway (signed copy of Magnus' Vow, tote backs, other cool stuff.) So just show up!

This is what Cassie will be GIVING AWAY at the signings: LOOK HERE. If any of you lucky MM's attend any of Cassie's signings, please let us know how it went. We wish we could be there with you.

Switching gears, I have heard nothing but great things about Cassie's newest short story, Some Fortunate Future Day, which is in the new STEAMPUNK release, a collection of various short steampunk stories. Here's a snippet,

Time is many things, her father told her. Time is a circle, and time is a great turning gear that cannot be stopped, and time is a river that carries away what you love.

When he said that, he looked at Rose’s mother’s portrait, hanging over their fireplace mantel. He had invented his time device only a few short months after she had died. It had always been one of his greatest regrets in life, though Rose sometimes wondered whether he could have invented it at all without the all-consuming power of grief to drive him. Most of his other inventions did not work nearly as well. The garden robot often digs up flowers instead of weeds. The mechanical cook can make only one kind of soup. And the talking dolls never tell Rose what she wants to hear.

“Do you think he’s ever coming back?” says Ellen. She means Rose’s father. She is the dark-haired talking doll, the saucy one. She likes to dance around the room, showing her ankles. She arranges the sugar cubes in the tea service to form rude words. “Perhaps he has taken to drink. I hear that is common among soldiers.”

“Shush,” says Cordelia. Cordelia is the gentle doll, redheaded and quiet. “Ladies should not speak of such things.” She turns to Rose.

Cassie tweeted the link for fans to read her story this morning. Please go here to read it. Visit Candlewick's site for more info on the book.