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Tour

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:41:58 -0700

Hey guys! I just wanted to let you know I’d be on tour for Sword Catcher in the US and UK in October.

In the US I’ll be at New York Comicon, in Dallas, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and Nashville. In the UK I’ll be in Bath, London (sold out I think) Liverpool and Edinburgh.

I’d be very excited to see you guys there! You can grab tickets here

And I’ll be back with more updates!

posted by Cassandra Clare on August, 11

Sword Catcher excerpt

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 10:18:02 -0700

Hi guys,

I just wanted to say the first excerpt from Sword Catcher is up on Entertainment Weekly! You can read it here.

A lot of people have been asking about Wicked Powers and don't worry, it's coming! I'll post more about it here when I have more info.

posted by Cassandra Clare on August, 04

Hello again!

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:18:47 -0700

*dusts off blog* Ok, I realize I haven't updated this in a decade. Yes, a decade. So I feel kind of bad about that! The best way to keep track of me and what I'm doing is probably either Instagram

or by signing up for my newsletter:

But I totally understand if you don't want to bother to do that! I wanted to pop in to say that there's a giveaway right now for my new book, Sword Catcher, going on on �ϻ��Ӯ��

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And I'll also be talking about Sword Catcher a little in this space, with details and tour events. It's my first adult fantasy book, and I'm excited to share it!

posted by Cassandra Clare on July, 14

Read Chapter One of City of Lost Souls

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:25:26 -0700

The City of Lost Souls chapter reveal starts TODAY!

As well as being able to read the first chapter, if you live in the US, at each chapter stop you can enter to win one of six VERY limited edition SHADOW HUNTER FAMILY RINGS.��(Canadians, follow @SimonPulseCA for you chance to win a SHADOWHUNTER ring. I'm sorry it's only open to US residents, but apparently those are the legalities of this kind of giveaway. The chapter however, can be read by anyone.)

Tomorrow, the hunt continues at

*** You may notice I never, ever, ever update this blog any more. I have moved to

and I update there daily. This livejournal is not going to be updated with any regularity, or possibly again ever, so for those who have been checking, please follow me over at tumblr!

posted by Cassandra Clare on March, 24

YA Tournament of Heroines!

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:25:36 -0800

So Tessa is up against Katniss in the second to last round of the YA Heroine Tournament.

You can vote .��

Yeesh. What can I say? Katniss is an awesome heroine, and honestly, I'm proud Tessa has made it this far and is facing down a girl who wins tournaments to the death professionally. :D

I will say this: there are all sorts of ways to be heroic, and just because Tessa works her mojo in a corset doesn't mean she's less of a badass. They're both badass girls. I think they would get along.

Katniss: I like your corset.

Tessa: And I am sure that your flaming jumpsuit is the very last word in fashion!

Katniss: Boy do I hate being in a love triangle.

Tessa: I can only most heartily agree.

And yet!

If Tessa wins this round, the last round of the Tournament will be Tessa vs. Clary. Which means that whoever wins that round, no matter what, you guys will get a brandnewsspeciallywrittenforyou scene.��

Something to think about. *winks*

posted by Cassandra Clare on March, 13

Clockwork Prince launch party NYC (&Ed Westwick):

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:55:06 -0800

Clockwork Prince launch party NYC (&Ed Westwick): The Clockwork Prince tour kicks off tomorrow night with a signing in New York City, at the Barnes and Noble on Union Square.

NEW YORK CITY: 7PM
Union Square
33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-253-0810

There will be swag bags prizes, and other fun stuff, including an appearance by (barring unexpected weirdness having to do with the Gossip Girl filming schedule)

Ed Westwick, who besides being Chuck Bass, is also the co-narrator of Clockwork Prince ( you can hear him read ) and lent his mellifluous voice to the narration of the CP book trailer:

Perhaps he can be convinced to read a few lines from Clockwork Princess aloud? :D

posted by Cassandra Clare on March, 18

An auction

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:33:35 -0800

I'm currently participating in an auction to help out a wonderful author and creator, Terri Windling, who is at the moment in a time of financial need. From the :

"Beloved editor, artist and writer Terri Windling is in need, and we are asking for your help in a fundraising auction to assist her. This auction will combine donations from professionals and fans in an online sale to help Terri through a serious financial crisis.

Terri is the creator of groundbreaking fantasy and mythic art and literature over the past several decades, ranging from the influential urban fantasy series Bordertown to the online Journal of Mythic Arts. With co-editor Ellen Datlow, she changed the face of contemporary short fiction with The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and other award-winning anthologies, including Silver Birch, Blood Moon and The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest. Her remarkable Endicott Studio blog continues to bring music, poetry, art and inspiration to people all over the world.

Terri Windling and her family have been coping with health and legal issues that have drained her financial resources at a critical time. Due to the serious nature of these issues, and privacy concerns for individual family members, we can't be more specific than that, but Terri is in need of our support. As a friend, a colleague and an inspiration, Terri has touched many, many lives over the years. She has been supremely generous in donating her own work and art to support friends and colleagues in crisis. Now, Terri is in need of some serious help from her community. Who better than her colleagues and fans to rise up to make some magick for her?"

My entry is at:

Basically I'm offering to write a short piece about your favorite TMI or ID character or pairing — canon, non-canon, I don't mind, though nothing too filthy :) and only characters from my own work. I'll handwrite it out and send it to you, framed if you'd like to keep it as a memento. The starting price is $50 — it's for a great cause and there's lots of other awesome stuff up for auction; check it out!

posted by Cassandra Clare on March, 10

Steampunk! The event.

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:49:05 -0700

Thursday • November 3 • 7 pm
STEAMPUNK EXTRAVAGANZA
The Odyssey Bookshop
9 College St.
S. Hadley, MA 01075
(413) 534-7307
Cassandra Clare, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant
Steampunk! an Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.

The anthology is called "

The story I wrote for it is called "Some Fortunate Future Day." You can read the whole story — in entirety — and Chasing Ray .

If you get a chance, come by the Odyssey to get your book signed by Kelly, Gavin and I, and we'll happily talk dirigibles and clockwork dancing instructors.

posted by Cassandra Clare on March, 23

London and Ireland events — an update

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:52:48 -0700

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 (, tote backs, other cool stuff.) So just show up!

posted by Cassandra Clare on March, 23

October teaser for Clockwork Prince

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:42:32 -0700

October Teaser for Clockwork Prince, for those who missed it when it was posted earlier on Tumblr (where I've moved most of my blogging) .Kindly illustrated for me by Charlotte Mattey, who said she could do it overnight, and did. :D

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The voices were quite clearly those of the Lightwood brothers. Tessa recognized Gideon's lower, rougher tones as he said, "There will be a moment of reckoning, Gabriel. You can depend upon it. What will matter is where we stand when it comes."

Gabriel replied, his voice tense, "We will stand with Father, of course. Where else?"

"You don't know everything about him, Gabriel. You don't know all that he has done."

There was a silence through which Tessa could almost hear Gabriel sulking. At last he said, "If you despise Father so much, why did you ever come back from Spain?"

Gideon replied, sounding exasperated, "I came back for you —"

Sophie and Tessa had been leaning against the door, ears pressed to the wood; at that moment, the door gave way, and swung open. Both straightened hastily, Tessa hoping that no evidence of their eavesdropping appeared on their faces.

Gabriel and Gideon were standing in a patch of light at the centre of the room, facing off against each other. Tessa noticed something she had not noticed before: Gabriel, despite being the younger brother, was lankily taller than Gideon by some inches. Gideon was more muscular, broader through the shoulders. He swept a hand through his sandy hair, nodding curtly to the girls as they appeared in the doorway. "Good day, Miss Collins, Miss Gray."

posted by Cassandra Clare on March, 01