May 2012
City of Lost Souls: tissue count?
tobenornottobethatisthequestion asked you:
As there have been no reviews of City of Lost Souls, how bad is City of Lost Souls on a scale of one to ten, do you think? :) “
Hey!
By which I mean how painful is it?”
Oh.
“More than Clockwork Prince? Less?”
You know, I don’t think it does the thing Clockwork Prince was designed to do, which is take a knife, shove it in, and twist it around. You can’t do that with every book! City of Fallen Angels introduced the troubles of the new series after the tranquility of the end of City of Glass. It broke people’s hearts because it took happily ever after and said it wasn’t so happy. But it also set up a big adventure — TMI are much more about the epic sweep of adventure (it is actually a possibility that the whole world will be destroyed) where TiD are much more about personal stakes (since we know the world is still here now, it probably wasn’t destroyed in 1878. So what we worry about there is the destruction of the characters and what price they will pay for the world’s safety and each other’s.) So while there are personal stakes and relationships and pain and happiness in CoLS they do exist in balance with a big adventure story.
“Just so I know how to equip myself appropriately: tissues/punchbag/chocolate/anger management classes…”
Holly comes in here to advise. I am not the best judge of my own work obviously — I don’t think writers often are — so she says: “I really think CoLS is pure, decadent fun. I have said before when I thought a book brought the pain in a big way (Clockwork Prince, anyone?) but I honestly think you guys won’t need many tissues at all. I mean, maybe a few…it’s still Cassie, but not too many!”
City of Lost Souls snippet: 7 days left
Sebastian looked at Jocelyn, his black eyes quiet and narrow. “If you were really a real mother,” he said, “a good mother, you would have known I was alive. There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away.”
April 2012
Raising Hell: Dear Cassandra Clare, Cassie, Queen of Runes, Blood and Badassery, →
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Aw. You guys are so, so, so sweet. I’m so impressed by you. Dealing with hate and lies in the classiest possible way - ignoring it - and focusing on the positive. You’ve made so much beautiful art in the part days, and so many lovely posts. There are obvious yukky downsides to being a public figure online — or at all — you all are the upside.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It’s a thank you for everything you have given your readers by creating the world of the Shadowhunters – the ones hunting in New York, London, Alicante and not to forget, each and every town and city in the world (because this is where your readers live). Your stories continue to make us hold our stomachs during laughing fits, they make us weep in quiet corners of our rooms, or cry out in anger, trying not to destroy the book in the process. But most importantly, they allow us to flee reality for a couple of hours, delving into stories of adventures alongside the characters we came to love so much. Whether it is Jace, Jem, Jessamine and Jordan or Valentine, Sebastian, Mortmain and the Fairy Queen, they all have a place in our hearts, they all matter and play an important part in our reading experience. Everything you give us, every chapter, every page and every line – hell, every word! – will be cherished and analysed until we find its true meaning, its sense for the story as a whole, its impact on future books etc. But I’m sure you know this already. The anticipation of a new book is like a hunt for us, because you give us small glimpses into the plot, never fully revealing what the line or passage means in the book’s context. So we can think of theories, however unlikely they may be, make long posts about possible outcomes, discuss every minor detail of what you gave us, write fanfiction, make graphics and create memes to use in any way you can imagine….
“ask-woolseyscott asked you:
Miss Clare, is there a Woolsey playlist? Or a Woolsey song? Is that something that exists in the dark and ostensibly confetti-covered abyss that is your mind?” —
Miss Clare, is there a Woolsey playlist? Or a Woolsey song? Is that something that exists in the dark and ostensibly confetti-covered abyss that is your mind?” —
“Werewolves of London”? :)
I’m happy people seem to like Woosley. He has unexpected and (I hope) awesome things to do in Clockwork Princess, so we will learn more about him.
