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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Cassie's SIGNING IN ITALY!!!


Italian Shadowhunters get ready, as Cassie is having a signing in Italy!!! Here's the signing info per Cassie:


I’ll be signing in Italy on October 25, in the lovely city of Florence. I hope to see you there, Italian Shadowhunters!
October 25, 6:30 pm
FIRENZE Bookshop IBS
Italy


Are you going? We'd love to hear how it went.

City of Heavenly Fire Snippet


Cassie's at it again. She's teasing us with more City of Heavenly Fire snippets. Here's what she posted today:
The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

Seriously!?!? Just slay me now, because if something happens to Magnus in this series I won't be able to recover. 

The Iron Trial: CALL

Cassie and Holly's The Iron Trail series comes out next year, and recently Cassie introduced fans to CALL. Here's what she said:



Call
Tell us description of characters Magisterium to do fan art? I know that Call has an injured leg, Tamara has black hair, but you can go into details? 
I guess I can start with Call? I feel odd going into detail without Holly! Call is average height for his age, but one of his legs is shorter than the other. He has had surgeries on it to correct it since he was a child but none of them worked. He leg hurts often; it’s not why he’s a cranky boy, but he is one. He has dark hair and gray eyes. He hates people commenting on his limp, he rides a skateboard sometimes, he once kidnapped a naked mole rat. Here’s Cassandra JP’s interpretation of him: (see above picture) I did realize recently that it’s fall 2013 which means The Iron Trial comes out in one year. Eeek!

And this:



My interpretation of Callum Hunt and his best friend, Aaron. This drawing is based off the description Cassandra Clare, gave me. I shamelessly fanmailed her about Magisterium and I got a list of characters and their distinct looks. Their description isn’t final yet, so chillax peeps~ 
I decided to do a sketch of them before I hit my books again, my hands were itchy! I’ll probablt do the other three characters (Tamara included) after my final exams~ 
I will quote again, “the descriptions are not yet final”, and I am just a fangirl excited for this book. ||D Ciao! 
Magisterium (c) Cassandra Clare & Holly Black
I love this! Magisterium fanart! Squee! Call and Aaron - names that mean nothing now but hopefully soon they will. :)


I can't wait to read this series!

Shadowhunter Girls Calendar

A couple weeks back Cassandra Jean & Cassandra Clare created a fun Shadowhunter Boys Calendar, and now Cassandra Jean has one featuring the girls! Check out her most recent images:




What Cassie had to say: 

More calendar pics! March Cecily and April Maia — I put them alongside March Will and April Matthew for compare and contrast. Everyone looks gorgeous thanks to Cassandra Jean.
Tiny wubbins baby wolf!


What Cassie said to say about Cristina & Emma:

Emma and Cristina from the girls’ Shadowhunter calendar. Best friends. I think of Cristina as way too shy to show her bra at all, but this is a pinup calendar! Beautifully illustrated byCassandra Jean.



Here's what Cassie said about the first two months: 

So the beautiful Cassandra (NOT me, Cassandra Jean) as you know collaborated to create a calendar of the TMI/TID/TDA/TLH boys — Men of the Shadowhunter Universe, I guess — and while I don’t know what we’re going to do with it yet, we decided to do a matching calendar for the girls. Cassandra wanted to work with classic pinup poses, so here’s Grace from TLH being ice queen January, and Helen and Aline being February 2014, celebrating Valentine’s Day*. Lookit Helen’s cute pointy ears! 
*But not the way Valentine celebrates it."

Which month is your favorite so far?


Cassie Talks The Dark Artifices


Cassie continues to answer fan questions about her books. Here's what she had to say about The Dark Artifices titles:

Hello Miss Casandra:
I have a really unusual question that keep my sleep far away, Why in the two first series of Shadowhunters (TID and TMI) in the names of the books one word is repeated, like in TMI is “City” and in TID is “Clockwork” but in the series of Dark Artifices that doesn’t happen?
I’ll be very thankful if you answer my question.
Nayeli M. 
— nayeinwonderland
Changing it up a little? Honestly I didn’t think about it at all and I don’t think my publisher ever asked about it when I handed the titles in. Series titles have themes, sometimes, and the theme of the Dark Artifices titles were honorifics/titles:
Lady Midnight
Lord of Shadows
Queen of Air and Darkness
Lord/Lady/Queen - all honorifics. They may be different honorifics, but they basically serve the same function as “City of” or “Clockwork” which is mostly indicating the books are all part of a series.
Wow, that was a boring answer. I’ll try for something more interesting next time, like which of the characters is secretly into newts.

Cassie Clare: On Sebastian & Clary

It's been almost a week since I ran over the internet cable while mowing the lawn (yeah, never get Suddenlink, as apparently their "we will be back to bury your cable" really means they'll never return even after repeated phone calls), so now that we've switched cable providers, our new service will be installed tomorrow (YEAH). Needless to say I'm WAY behind on reviews and posts. Today I'm catching up on Cassie's recent posts thanks to my parent's internet. lol 


Recently Cassie talked about Sebastian and Clary here, in a post she recently shared on her Tumblr. Here's what she said:

of Sebastian and Clary
Hi Cassie, first I love your books and I can’t wait for CoHF to come out, even though I’m kind of scare that it might break my heart, anyways, I don’t know if you’ve already answered this question ( sorry if you have) but can you please help me to better understand Jonathan/Sebastian’s feelings or non feelings or whatever his deal is towards Clary? Or is it going to be better explained in CoHF? Thanks! — racheltavarez18
Jonathan/Sebastian’s relationship with and feelings toward Clary are complicated. Part of the reason they are not just explicit on the page “Jonathan looked at Clary, and realized that he loved her as a sister/hated her as an enemy/loved her the way you love a pet frog and did not have any other feelings or any conflicting emotions as regarded her” is because Sebastian is himself working through what he feels about Clary. (Also because no one actually thinks that way.) 
Ideally, all characters have complicated emotions about other characters. Alec loves Jace like a brother, but he did once have a crush on him, and he also is sometimes jealous of him for getting all the attention, and he feels protective of him but also is driven to distraction by his self-destructiveness and recklessness. Even positive emotions are complicated.
Sebastian is a character who has a very uneasy relationship with emotions at all. He was probably attached to Valentine. He got very upset at the idea that Valentine might have cared about Jace. He doesn’t really think of himself as someone who can love but he gets annoyed when people don’t love him. He actually goes on at great length in City of Lost Souls to Clary about what he thinks he feels about her (“You know, when I first met you, in Idris, I had hopes—I had thought you would be like me. And when you were nothing like me, I hated you. And then, when I was brought back, and Jace told me what you did, I realized that I had been wrong. You are like me” — etc. pg 361) , and then she explains to Jace in the end what she thinks Sebastian feels about her. (“Loneliness drove him as much as a desire for power—loneliness and a need to be loved without any corresponding understanding that love was something you earned. “)
Now you don’t necessarily have to believe Sebastian when he talks about his feelings, and you could think Clary is wrong. Or I guess you could be looking for something really explicit and categorizable — “He loved her as a frequent traveler loved a rolling suitcase” — but sometimes the thing is that the characters don’t necessarily understand or want to comprehend their own emotions explicitly because they are in the process of coming to understand them. Think of Harry and Snape — how Snape actually felt about Harry was somewhat baffling right up to the end of the Harry Potter series because the development of Snape’s relationship towards our protagonist is, in fact, his character arc. You cannot just be told it up front. That would wreck the story.
So I guess the answer is that you really need to read to the end of the series to get the clear picture of how Sebastian feels about Clary because again, how this particular character feels about the protagonist is his character arc. I don’t think my explaining it would be a good idea further than it has already been explained in the books — I wouldn’t have been all that happy with someone who had handed me a card that said SNAPE HAS COMPLICATED FEELINGS ABOUT HARRY BECAUSE HE WAS IN LOVE WITH HIS DEAD MOM before Deathly Hallows came out. (Though, admittedly, I had guessed. But I still prefer the journey on the page, and therefore I inflict it on you!)

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