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

Did you ever want to have Jace’s ring or have Isabelle’s ruins some where close, well you can on Etsy.  Jewelry designer Helbelmet has designed jewelry based on the series and it is beautiful.

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Clockwork Angel is the first book in The Infernal Devices Series by Cassandra Clare.  This series is a precursor to the Mortal Instruments and is set in Victorian London and centers around Tessa, Jem and Will, who is on the cover.  The cover of Clockwork Angel is designed by Cliff Neilsen, which also did the covers for the Mortal Instruments Series.  Clockwork Angel will be released in August.

City of Bones is the first book in The Mortal Instrument Series by Cassandra Clare.  It introduces us to the world of the Shadowhunter.  Come get lost in the world of Jace and Clary.

Synopsis:

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder – much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing – not even a smear of blood – to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace’s world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know….

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