We thought we would share a few tweets.  Some may be spoilers, but if’ you’ve already read the books, you’ll be fine.

• “have yo ever played a rol playing game? I’m asking ‘cauze Simon was a rol player and i’m curious.” Nope. That was based on friends of mine.
• “when you came up with the idea for TMI, did you know how it was going to end, or has it since changed?”http://twishort.com/aalkl
• “do you get to choose the release dates of your books?” Definitely, definitely not.
• I think my mistrust of happy endings is well known. @barrygoldblatt
• “did you have to think about the plot for the series or did it just come to you.” Everyone has to think about plo…http://twishort.com/aaz8d
• “if you could give any advice to new wannabe authors, what would it be?” Write what you want to read. And learn how publishing works.
• “will you write a prequel about valentine and jocelyn and the circle?” Huh, several people just asked me that at once. Probably not, no.
• “Are we going to see Jace’s b-day in CoFA?” No. Also he is too old to want a spaghetti bath anymore.
• “Was the end of CoFA planned or just developed as the story was written?”Planned out. I did several outlines till I got the ending I wanted.

And there are many more. You can find her at @cassieclare

The Fantasy YA lit genre has exploded in the last couple of years, you can’t go into a bookstore now without new books on the shelves.  What was a one row section is now about a 6 row section in my Barnes and Noble and has required a whole section in my local Borders.

There have been several new releases for May in this Genre and Kim and I are eager to read them but these two seem to interest me the most, Kim can add her most wanted to the list if she likes.

White Cat (The Curse Worker Series #1)

By Holly Black

Synopsis

Cassel comes from a family of curse workers — people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they’re all mobsters, or con artists. Except for Cassel. He hasn’t got the magic touch, so he’s an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family. You just have to ignore one small detail — he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.

Ever since, Cassel has carefully built up a façade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his façade starts crumbling when he starts sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He’s noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two brothers. They are keeping secrets from him, caught up in a mysterious plot. As Cassel begins to suspect he’s part of a huge con game, he also wonders what really happened to Lila. Could she still be alive? To find that out, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen.

Holly Black has created a gripping tale of mobsters and dark magic where a single touch can bring love — or death — and your dreams might be more real than your memories.

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Spells by Aprilynne Pike

Still reeling from the discovery of her faerie origins, Laurel is completely immersed in the faerie realm. To learn more about what being a faerie means, she has to live in Avalon, apart from her boyfriend and family. How will she be able to keep them safe from the continuing troubles of the gateway? This is the sequel to the bestselling WINGS.

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Cassandra has some extras posted on The Mortal Instruments website. We thought it would be fun to post some fan art!
Do you think this could be clary?

MLL Episode #6 – City of Ashes Part One Saturday May 15th 2010

Listen in as Shannon and Kim discuss the first part of City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare.  What are Jace and Clary doing now that have found out that they are brother and sister? Where is Valentine and what is he doing now? How about Simon, is he still vying for Clary’s love?

LINKS{*City of Ashes*}{*Hush Hush*}{*Wings*}

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Apparently it took all day for the powers that be to announce the songs on the Eclipse Soundtrack, I think that is ridiculous. But here it is in its entirety.

Source: Twilighters Anonymous

? 1.Metric – “Eclipse (All Yours)”
? 2. Muse – “Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)”
? 3. The Bravery – “Ours”
? 4. Florence + The Machine – “Heavy In Your Arms”
? 5. Sia – “My Love”
? 6. Fanfarlo – “Atlas”
? 7. The Black Keys – “Chop And Change”
? 8. The Dead Weather – “Rolling In On A Burning Tree”
? 9. Beck and Bat For Lashes – “Let’s Get Lost”
? 10. Vampire Weekend – “Jonathan Low”
? 11. UNKLE – “With You In My Head (featuring The Black Angels)”
? 12. Eastern Conference Champions – “A Million Miles An Hour”
? 13. Band Of Horses – “Life On Earth”
? 14. Cee-Lo Green – “What Part Of Forever”
? 15. Howard Shore – “Jacob’s Theme”
Awesome bands this time around. Can’t wait until June.

Also in other Eclipse news it got a PG-13 rating from the MPAA, no surprise there.

It just so happens that our book of the month author Cassandra Clare has a new interview out! Thanks Cassandra, we know you are busy but new interviews make us so happy!
Here is a bit of the interview. Be sure to click the link at the bottom to read all of it.

Cassandra Clare first introduced the heroine of the Mortal Instruments series, Clary Fray, in City of Bones, where she falls in with the Shadowhunters of Manhattan and its Downworld (New York’s “shadow self”). Now meet Tessa Gray, star of Clockwork Angel: Infernal Devices #1 (McElderry, $19.99, 9781416975861/1416975861, 496 pp., ages 12-up, August 31 laydown; also available on CD and for download from S&S Audio), which kicks off a companion series, set in London 130 years before Mortal Instruments. Tessa, an ordinary American girl, comes to London in search of her brother and is promptly kidnapped. “In this iteration, the Hell Fire Club inspired the Pandemonium Club,” Clare explained. “They practice black magic and believe they can use Tessa for their nefarious purposes.” Here the author talks about her fondness for cities and their shadow selves, trilogies and the parallels she has created between hers.

Did you originally conceive of Mortal Instruments as a trilogy?

I did think of Mortal Instruments as a trilogy when I first constructed it because I was a huge fan of trilogies as a kid. There’s a theme that runs through it that’s [inspired by] Milton and The Divine Comedy. There are little epigraphs at the beginning of each section: the first is the hero’s descent, the second is about hell and the underworld, and the third as an ascent out of the underworld. I think of it as Clary’s heroic journey.

What drew you back to the series for City of Fallen Angels (to be released in April 2011)?

A graphic novel company asked if I could do a story set in the universe of Mortal Instruments, so I storyboarded out a concept for a new story that would take off from the end of City of Glassand focus slightly more on the character of Simon, Clary’s best friend. The project fell through, so I went to Simon & Schuster and asked how they’d feel about me turning this into a novel. And they said, “But it’s a trilogy!” And I said, “I think Scott Westerfeld has proven that a trilogy has four books.”

Read the rest HERE: ShelfAwareness

Happy Mother’s Day to all of our Mother’s.  Hope you have a wonderful day.