This week is my week of posting pictures, it seems!

So my Italian publisher did a complete repackage of all the Mortal Instruments books for their paperback line. They're dark and romantic and I truly love them. (Just don't ask me who the people making out on the cover of City of Ashes are. I am sure it's supposed to be Jace and Clary, so you just have to let the hair color go. Unless it's Simon and Isabelle? O_O And yes, the guy on the cover of City of Glass is Jace. Bones, too, with the snazzy hood.)










- The Mortal Instruments. Book 1 City of bones (Città di ossa): photo (c) Marwane Pallas
- The Mortal Instruments. Book 2 City of ashes (Città di cenere): photo (c) Monimix
- The Mortal Instruments. Book 3 City of glass (Città di vetro): photo (c) Ender Sünni.

Over at Newsrama there's a great article about the artist Th3rd World picked (with input from me, which was nice of them!) to illustrate the Mortal Instruments graphic novels. Her name is Nicole Virella, she's super talented, and I'm really excited to have a great female artist working on this series (when I say "hotten up that guy in that drawing there", she entirely knows what I mean....)

Some of the character designs she's developed:










( more under cut )

Let's see, news . . .

1) My editor pinged me the other day to let me know that The Mortal Instruments series has now been on the New York Times bestseller list for six months straight without a break. That's fairly awesome, and all thanks to you, readers, for making it happen.

2) The draft manuscript for The Clockwork Angel has been turned in. Now to turn right around and finish City of Fallen Angels. Glerk.

3) In Movember, I'm making a short signing tour of Eastern Canada* . . . WITH HOLLY BLACK AND SCOTT WESTERFELD! Who are, as we all know, awesome. I'll be signing all my books, and reading from The Clockwork Angel) . . . and possibly (fingers crossed) reading a little preliminary stuff from City of Fallen Angels too.

The schedule is:

Wednesday November 4th: MONTREAL
7pm
Chapters Pointe-Claire
6321 Trans-Canada Highway, unit 1410
(514) 428-5500

Thursday November 5th: OTTAWA
7pm
Chapters Rideau
47 Rideau Street,
Ottawa, Ontario
(613) 241-0073


Friday November 6th: TORONTO
7PM
Trinity St. Paul's United Church
427 Bloor Street West

** tickets will be available online and at the door, books will be sold at the event.

To buy tickets online, click here

or paste this URL into your browser:

http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2931204


*No western Canada this time. There just wasn't time as the three of us had only four days during which we were all free and could do this tour.

** I know, I know, tickets. I'm sorry about that. It's a pain to have to get them. The ticketing for the event is because they rented a church to hold the event in instead of holding it in a bookstore so the ticket cost goes toward the church's expenses in holding the event.

City of Glass is now out in Italy, where they've given it a sexy new cover:




City of Glass is also out in Germany, where the cover is a nice icy blue:



It debuted at no.5 on the Spiegel list, which is like the New York Times bestseller list in Germany, so I'm very happy about that. Especially since I'll be touring Germany and Austria in November, from the 9th to the 15th. Dates below:

November 9: Erfurt
Erfurter Herbstlese, 5 pm

November 10: Frankfurt
Hugendubel Frankfurt, 5.30 pm

November 11: Worms
Thalia Worms (at Museum Heylshof), 8.15 pm

November 12: Giessen
Thalia Gießen, 8.30 pm

November 13: Bayreuth

Hugendubel Bayreuth, 8.30 pm

November 14: Munich, 3pm
Münchner Bücherschau, 3 pm

November 15: Vienna/Austria

Buch Wien, Messegelände (Vienna book fair) 3-4 pm

The Spanish version of City of Ashes is coming out on September 22!



There's a Facebook fangroup for Spanish-language fans of the series here!

And lastly, closer to my home turf, I'll be reading and signing in Chicago in October for Teen Read Week, October 19-21.


Monday, October 19, 2009
from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Sulzer Regional Library:
4455 N. Lincoln Avenue, 60625

*
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

from 10:30 am - 12:30 p.m.
Woodson Regional Library:
9225 S. Halsted Street, 60628

*
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Harold Washington Library Center YOUmedia:
4000 State Street, 60605

And that's it — those are the only readings and signings I'll be doing for the rest of this calendar year. I'll be touring for The Clockwork Angel come next fall and possibly before, so look out for updates here!

First, thanks everyone who came to the Braynt Park announcement party for making it such a success. We had several hundred people but everyone was very polite and patient, even when it started raining and everyone had to squash under the tent. The guy who runs the Reading Room told me it was one of his best events "except maybe the one with Carmen Electra." So given that nobody at the event had ever been married to a Foo Fighter (that I know of), I think we did well!

So here are the announcements — and I'm glad to be able to share them with everyone!


1) There's going to be a fourth Mortal Instruments book. I'm going to paste in the news from the press release here. Keep in mind that everyone sounds like a jerk in press releases for some reason.

New York, NY, August 24, 2009—Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, has acquired City of Fallen Angels, a fourth book in Cassandra Clare’s bestselling young adult fantasy series, The Mortal Instruments, which has over 1 million books in print. City of Fallen Angels will publish in hardcover in March 2011, followed by a paperback edition in July 2012.

A description of the plot of CoFA can be found here:

http://www.cassandraclare.com/cms/faqs#fallen

Also, keep in mind that — despite the apparent finality of press releases — release dates and titles are all subject to change.

2) (And the one everyone's been waiting for . . . ) A lot of you already have intimations of this announcement, given that it was mentioned in Variety and other news outlets — but I wanted to wait until all the contracts were signed and the ink was dry before I said anything. So: the film rights to The Mortal Instruments have been optioned by Unique Features. This is a film production company set up by former founders and co-presidents of New Line Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, who oversaw the production of the Lord of the Rings movies — probably my favorite fantasy movies of all time. They're very dedicated to fantasy and they understand it, and I definitely trust them with the story of the Mortal Instruments.

Now, a book series being optioned doesn't mean a film is being made right now or is definitely going to be made at all — it means that the studio or production company in question is developing the books as a film project — right now they've nailed down financing and a screenwriter (I don't know who that is yet) and are working towards the next stages in the development project. It is, however, an important step in the movie-making process, so I feel like it's okay to be excited about it. :)

3) Three — yes, there was a late-breaking third announcement, which is that the MI books are going to be adapted into graphic novels by Th3rd World Studios. You can read the press release at their site. Right now we're working on selecting artists — and they're letting me have a lot of input, which is great — and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it turns out!

So this post is just a reminder about the special book signing event I'm doing Saturday in Bryant Park in New York City. The event will be emceed by the lovely Holly Black, and I will be signing books, answering questions, and making some Very Special Announcements. Just as a reminder, the party will be:

* Saturday, August 22
* 12:00pm – 2:00pm
* At the Bryant Park Reading Room, on the 42nd Street side of Bryant Park between 5th and 6th Ave. The reading room is in front of a statue of William Earl Dodge. You’ll see the tents, but if you walk into Bryant Park on 42nd and 6th, just walk down the 42nd St. side inside the park and it’s half-way down.

To answer some questions:

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RSVP! JUST SHOW UP!

There's some chance it'll rain Saturday, but we've rented tents to cover the area, so everyone will stay dry! There will be no location change in case of rain.

The event will be broadcast in real time at BlogTV on here, starting at 12:

http://www.blogtv.com/People/ashleymc

(Note from Ashley, the broadcaster: For anyone unfamiliar with BlogTV, you don't have to sign up for anything to watch a stream--you can be chat as a guest. It's all free.)

If you can't be at the BlogTV show but you still want to read updates from the event, Ashley will be live Tweeting here: http://twitter.com/mundiesource

Books will be sold at the event. Or you can bring your own. Either way.

For those not attending, I'll be making a blog post right here with all the news that was announced at the party.

I am planning to wear these shoes:



I know you were wondering. :D

So I've already mentioned this to some of you, but a little while ago Simon and Schuster let me know that they were planning a special end-of-summer event for The Mortal Instruments series, emceed by the lovely blackholly. A mad, massive TMI themed party, if you will, to be held — where else? — in New York City, where I will be signing books, answering questions, and making some Very Special Announcements about the future of the Shadowhunters books, what's up next, and sharing some (I think) fairly awesome news. I now have the date and place and time, so I'm going to share them with you.

http://www.bryantpark.org/calendar/events/event.php?event=1338

* Saturday, August 22
* 12:00pm – 2:00pm
* Bryant Park Reading Room, on the 42nd Street side of Bryant Park between 5th and 6th Ave.

"Join New York Times best-selling author Cassandra Clare for TWO special announcements about her urban fantasy series, The Mortal Instruments. Cassandra will read and sign books and special guest Holly Black will emcee the event! Don’t miss the chance to get books signed and hear some top secret news from Cassandra herself!"

This is going to be a little different than other signing events. For one thing, the main focus of the event is the announcements of the top sekrit news (which yes will be made public after the event is over). There are also going to be giveaways — signed posters and and excerpts from The Clockwork Angel (you'll be able to choose between two different excerpts with different covers) and perhaps a sneak peek at blackholly's new book The White Cat.

There is, if you want to attend, an RSVP email address:

rsvpcassandraclare@simonandschuster.com

where you can let S&S know that you're coming (just include your name. And the names of anyone coming with you. So they can make a list of names). You don't need to RSVP in order to come. You can just show up. Bryant Park Reading room is a public space. HOWEVER, if you do RSVP, you get entered in a drawing to win a Shadowhunters flash drive loaded up with excerpts from the Mortal Instruments books, an outtake from The Clockwork Angel, and even an as-yet-unread-by-anyone 10,000 word novella that tells the story of Jocelyn's early life and marriage to Valentine from her point of view (and not just the version she decided Clary should hear . . .)

{Edited to add: PLEASE don't RSVP unless you're coming. You have to actually *be present at the event* to win the drawing. We'll have two names of winners and a list of backup names and just keep going down the list until we get to someone who is actually present to get the flash drives. You can't win if you don't show up, so be nice and don't RSVP unless you're actually going to be there!}

I think it will be tons of fun, and not like any event I've ever done before or am likely to do again! I hope to see those of you who can make it there. And if you can't, there will be a full recap of the party the next day.

So City of Glass is now out in the UK and Ireland!




A few things:

I'll be in the UK most of July, mostly doing research for The Clockwork Angel, but also doing some appearances and signings. Here's my current schedule of events (hope to see you at one!):


July 11, 2009: Glasgow, Scotland, 3pm:
(with Sarah Rees Brennan)
Borders Glasgow. 98 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, G1 3BA

July 13: London, England, 6:30 pm
London City of Glass release party! Part of Murder One's signing-and-a-movie program. There will be entertainment and refreshments. I'll be giving away free promotional teaser sections from The Clockwork Angel (only at this event!) and I’ll be signing copies of City of Glass and afterward there will be a viewing of the film Dark City. This event is completely free and all-ages!
HOME lounge and gallery
100-106 Leonard Street, Shoreditch, London
TUBE STOP: OLD STREET/LIVERPOOL STREET
http://www.murderone.co.uk/acatalog/Signings.html

July 16 Dublin, Ireland: 6:30 PM
(with Sarah Rees Brennan)
Eason’s Bookstore
40 Lower O’Connell Street
Dublin City Centre
01-858-3800

2) Walker Books is also running a "have lunch with the author!" (me, in this case) contest. You can enter it right here if you're located in the UK/Ireland. While I am puzzled that anyone would want to spend that much time with me, I promise to 1) give you spoilers and 2) pay for lunch, so there is that.

3) Yes, I am aware that the cover of City of Glass does not match the previous UK editions of Bones and Ashes. They, too, have been redesigned, and now match the American covers. (You can see them by clicking through to the competition link above if inclined.) I have gotten some sad emails from people whose sets of books now will not match. I sympathize, but this is one of those things about the book industry. You are always at risk of a redesign. Especially when a particular cover associated with a book has been either particularly successful or has become iconically associated with that book in some way — the American covers are the ones overwhelmingly used to market my books in every country in the world with the exceptions of Poland and Germany. This sort of thing is not an uncommon occurrance — think, for instance, of the folks who bought Twilight on its original release in the UK, when it looked like this:





It's since been redesigned to match the American cover, with its iconic apple. So just to say, while the cover change wasn't my decision, I get why they did it and I'm basically for it, with apologies to those who are now going to have slightly off-kilter sets. On the plus side, perhaps the old covers will become collector's items.

4) And lastly, in honor of the UK release of the final book in the MI trilogy, I've put up a bunch of deleted scenes from Glass on my website. I'll be adding more throughout the rest of the year. Check them out!

The Polish version of City of Bones (Miasto Kości) is out.



I find the book trailer for it STRANGELY MESMERIZING.

The Infernal Devices website is now up!

Web designer Theo Black did a fantastic job. Gears clanking, smoke pouring out of chimneys, old-fashioned clocks ticking: it's a steampunk Victorian wonderland!

You can learn about the characters in the new series here.

There's some lovely artwork here.

Frequently asked questions about the series are here.

There are gorgeous wallpapers of Tessa, Will, Jem and the others here.

And probably of most interest, there's an excerpt from the seventh chapter of the book, Pale Kings and Princes, up here.

1) So when I said earlier that all signs pointed to Holly's and my trip to Canada being awesome, I had no idea how right I was! We had two terrific events, in Vancouver and Toronto, with 250+ people at the Vancouver signing and a shocking 500+ showing up forthe signing in Toronto — we were there from 2pm to after 7, signing and meeting people. Despite the long line, everyone was incredibly friendly and nice (must be that whole Canadian thing.) I took some photos of some of the t-shirts and other stuff that readers made, because they were awesome:














If you can't read this, it says : "Because vampires should wear nerd glasses" (which is true!)

2) If you're on my mailing list, you've already seen this. I posted an outtake from City of Glass on my website — the original, longer version of the the "manor house" scene from chapter 9. I toned it down for the published version of the book, mostly for pacing reasons. No, it is not particularly racy (though if you were one of the people who was shocked, shocked! by the kissing scene in the actual book, I'd skip it if I were you.) But it's a bit more detailed than what made it into the book, so if you're wanting more Clary/Jace it might be up your alley.

3) I should have some fun news about more Mortal Instruments/Infernal Devices stuff in a week or so, including an update on a possible new book and news about a box set. So check back!

One of the things that is absolutely true about being an author, especially for teens and kids, is that to succeed, you depend on a huge network of people — not just your editor and publisher, but reviewers, librarians, bloggers and booksellers — to get your books into the hands of people who will read and love them. Just one passionate advocate for your book can make all the difference.

One of the most passionate advocates for young adult literature out there in the book buying world is Faith Hochhalter, The Book Babe. She was absolutely lovely to me when I met her in Phoenix on tour for City of Ashes, and has hand-sold countless copies of my books. She's done the same for so many other authors like me, and is universally loved and respected in the kids book world — so you can imagine that the news that Faith, who is only twenty-seven, was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, hit the community like a ton of bricks.

This is why over 40 authors have come together to support Project Book Babe, which aims to raise enough money to support Faith while she goes through cancer treatment, and to help with her medical bills. They held a fabulous fundraising event on April 4 in Phoenix, which you may have already read about on Stephenie Meyer's site, where she and a dozen on authors like Shannon Hale, James Owen, and Dean Lorey auctioned off items live to raise money for the Project. Though I was on book tour and couldn't get to Phoenix for the event, I decided to do the next best thing and join the online auction, which features all sorts of cool items like books signed by Christopher Paolini and Lisa McMann, and Ally Carter's offer to critique the first ten pages of an aspiring writer's manuscript (just check the side of the page here for a list of what's up now.)

I decided to auction off the name of a character in my next Shadowhunter series, The Infernal Devices. Here's the listing (click text to go through to Ebay page):

Have a character in one of Cassandra Clare’s upcoming books named after you! Cassandra Clare will use the name of the winner in her upcoming series, The Infernal Devices, and include the full name of the winner in the acknowledgments.


So basically, yes, if you win the auction, you'll have a minor character in the ID series named after you, and I'll thank you in the acknowledgments and explain why.

They will also be auctioning off signed copies of my books, so you can bid on those as well (I don't have links as they have no gone up yet, but you can look out for them in the sidebar on the website or check the Project Book Babe store on Ebay.)

Faith has given so much to the book community and I'm glad to have a chance to give something back to her.

ETA: I know the auction listing says the winner will not receive a book as the publishing date isn't set, but I am happy to send the winner a signed copy once it's published.


Cassie

1) If you're looking for the big City of Glass answer post, it's here.

2) I'm reading next Wednesday from an as-yet-unreleased piece of fiction at the KGB Bar in the East Village as part of their Fantastic Fiction series. Come on by!

APRIL 15, 2009: 7pm
Reading at the KGB Bar, New York City, with Marie Rutoski
85 E 4th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 505-3360
http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/fantastic_fiction3/



3)


Signs for my trip to Canada with Holly point to AWESOME:


April 24, 2009, Vancouver, Canada

Signing with Holly Black

Vancouver Kidsbooks

Venue: West Point Grey United Church Hall

Sanctuary Room

4595 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6R 2A4

7pm

THIS EVENT IS TICKETED! PLEASE GET TIX IN ADVANCE!:

Ph: 604-738-5335

http://www.kidsbooks.ca/kidsbooksevents.htm?AdID=58

***

SUNDAY, April 26, 2009, Toronto, Canada: 2PM

Signing with Holly Black
Indigo Bookstore
Yorkdale Shopping Centre
3401 Dufferin Street Unit #29
Toronto, Ontario
M6A 2T9 Canada
(416)781-6660
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/home/storeLocator/storeDetails/286


***Holly and I have made up giftish things for signing attendees We're not handing them out to everyone, but if you tell us the code word at one of our events, we'll give one to you (so long as supplies last). My code word: CLOCKWORK Her code word: WHITE CAT

First off, I wanted to say thanks to everyone who came by to leave a comment about City of Glass, or ask a question, or who came to a signing, or who just read a copy of the book! Thanks to you guys, CoG is #4 on the New York Times series bestseller list (which is a tough list to get onto, since it counts the sales of every book in a series, and TMI only has three books in it, unlike some of the others which have five, six or seven), #3 on the Wall Street Journal Fiction Bestseller List, #2 on the Publisher's Weekly Children's bestseller list, and #12 on the USA Today bestseller list, which counts every book for sale in the entire country. So that's all awesome, and thank you all so much!

Now, on to the rest of the post. This is the big answer post I was talking about earlier, which answers the most-asked questions people had about Glass, as well as larger questions like "Is there going to be a fourth Mortal Instruments book?" It is of course very spoilery, so please avoid if you haven't read Glass.

( Answer Post )

So City of Glass is out today, and I'm off to Exton, Pennsylvania for the launch party. Hope to see some of you there. I may or may not be wearing robot shoes; it all depends.

I've seen a few people popping into old posts to post about City of Glass, so I'm declaring this the CoG response post, just to keep it tidy. You can post here when you've read the book. If you're posting spoilers, put the word SPOILERS somewhere in your post title. I'm going to screen the comments for a short while anyway, just to protect the unwary and those who like to read the ends of books first — tsk! So don't worry if your post doesn't show up immediately, it will eventually.

In the meantime, Glass is a Borders Shortlist pick, which means you can watch the book trailer or read the original first chapter of City of Glass with notes from me about how I changed it in the final version, and why.

Happy reading! Hope to see some of you on tour.

ETA: The character on the front cover of CoG is SEBASTIAN. And siince you guys seem to have a lot of other questions about Glass — and whether there will ever be sequels, etc — I'm going to make a post with some of the more common questions and answers next week. So if you have a question that doesn't get answered, look for that.


Cassie

1) I finally have the info for both the Toronto and Vancouver signings I'll be doing with Holly Black in April.

VANCOUVER:

FRIDAY April 24, 2009, 7pm
Signing with Holly Black
Vancouver Kidsbooks
Venue: West Point Grey United Church Hall
Sanctuary Room
4595 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6R 2A4
604-738-5335


TORONTO:

SUNDAY April 26th 2009, 2pm

Indigo Bookstore
Yorkdale Shopping Centre
3401 Dufferin Street Unit #29
Toronto, Ontario
M6A 2T9 Canada
(416)781-6660
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/home/storeLocator/storeDetails/286



2) All the tour postcards have finally been sent out, yesterday and this morning — there was a massive glitch at the printer's and thus the delay, fortunately postcards rarely take more than a few days to get where they're going so all should be well. Also thanks to the printer there was a shortage of postcards with the tour image on them, so a few of you, maybe thirty, will be getting postcards with Infernal Devices or MI images on them. Fortunately all postcards function about the same. :)

3) In preparation for tour, I have ordered approximately 15 polka-dot dresses from Stop Staring. Stop Staring makes vintage-inspired dresses that all kind of look like this:



So if you see me on tour, I will probably be wearing polka dots. Dots!

4) Four days till City of Glass!

1) Just a reminder that Wednesday I'll be signing in Connecticut with Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson and Robin Wasserman, at the Westport Public Library.


Westport Public Library
Westport, Connecticut
20 Jesup Rd
Westport, CT 06880
(203) 291-4840

There's even a Facebook page for the event! (Ignore crazy picture of Abba. I blame Maureen.)


2) I've got my preliminary schedule here for the City of Glass tour, and also the design for the tour postcard, by James L. Barry. It's so cute!



Aaand that's it. No more postcards! I've run out. See y'all at the events!

* Note to: Canadians: I'm not doing postcards for the Canada events — it's too expensive for me to send them! — but I'll bring some fun stuff to both the Vancouver and Toronto event for everyone who shows up, just to be fair.
* Note about phone numbers: I'm including the phone numbers of the stores below so you can call them if you have a question about whether, say, you can bring pre-purchased books to sign or whether they require you to buy a copy there. Also, if you want a signed copy but can't make it to an event, you can always call and pre-order one, and they'll put a stickie note in it with whatever you want me to write, and they'll ship it to you once I sign it.
* Note in general: I know there's lots of cities I was hoping to go to that I'm not going to make it to this time, but with publishing in the state it's in, and tours getting canceled left and right, I'm lucky to be going on a tour at all!

Tour Itinerary
Cassandra Clare
CITY OF GLASS

Exton, PA Tuesday, March 24
6:00 PM
BORDERS EXPRESS
298 Exton Square
Exton, PA 19341
(610) 363-5036


SAN DIEGO
signing with Lisa McMann
Wednesday, March 25
7:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE OCEANSIDE
2615 Vista Way
Oceanside, CA 92054
(760) 529-0106

SAN DIEGO, CA
signing with Lisa McMann
Thursday, March 26
7:00 PM
MYSTERIOUS GALAXY BOOKS
7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd.
#302
San Diego, CA 92111
858-268-4747

LOS ANGELES, CA
signing with Lisa McMann
Friday, March 27
4:00 PM
MRS NELSONS
1030 BONITA AVE
LA VERNE, CA 91750
(909) 599-4558
Order signed books here.

FRIDAY, MARCH 27
7 :00 PM
LOS ANGELES, CA
signing with Lisa McMann
VROMAN'S BOOKS
695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91101
626-449-5320


LOS ANGELES, CA
signing with Lisa McMann
Saturday, March 28
3:00 PM
BORDERS
3700 Torrance Blvd.
Torrance, CA 90503
(310) 540-7000


LOS ANGELES, CA
signing with Lisa McMann
Sunday, March 29
2:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
7881 Edinger Avenue
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
(714) 897-8781

March 31 6:30pm
HOUSTON, TX
Murder by the Book
2342 Bissonnet
Houston, TX 77005
888-4-AGATHA


CINCINNATI, OH
signing with Lisa McMann
Friday, April 3
7:00 PM
JOSEPH-BETH BOOKSELLERS
2692 Madison Rd.
Cinncinati, OH 45208
(513) 396-8960


WEST CHESTER, OH
signing with Lisa McMann
Saturday, April 4
12:30 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
9455 Civic Center Blvd.
West Chester, OH 45069
513-755-2258

NEW YORK, NY
*signing with Lisa McMann and Elizabeth Scott
Sunday, April 5
1:00pm-3:00pm
Books of Wonder
18 West 18th St.
New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 989-3270
Email: store@booksofwonder.com

***
April 24, 2009, Vancouver, Canada

Signing with Holly Black

Vancouver Kidsbooks

Venue: West Point Grey United Church Hall

Sanctuary Room

4595 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6R 2A4

7pm

THIS EVENT IS TICKETED! PLEASE GET TIX IN ADVANCE!

http://www.kidsbooks.ca/kidsbooksevents.htm?AdID=58

***

SUNDAY, April 26, 2009, Toronto, Canada: 2PM

Signing with Holly Black
Indigo Bookstore
Yorkdale Shopping Centre
3401 Dufferin Street Unit #29
Toronto, Ontario
M6A 2T9 Canada
(416)781-6660
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/home/storeLocator/storeDetails/286

1) NYC Teen Author Festival



This year marks the first-ever NYC Teen Author Festival (March 16-22, 2009), taking place in and around downtown New York City and featuring a ton of YA authors. You can find the full schedule on Scott Westerfeld's blog here.

To kick off the festival on Monday, March 16, Justine L. and Scott have put together a Juvenalia Smackdown panel, moderated by the foxy Libba Bray. Justine, Scott, Holly Black, Alaya Johnson, David Levithan, Diana Peterfreund and I will be reading from our childhood and teenage writings. And let me tell you, my stuff was BAD. I had to have a friend from high school scan a bunch of pages of the terrible romance novel I wrote, and she was like, "This thing is so bad it melted the scanner." So if you're into that sort of cruel punishment, you should def. check our panel out.


2) I'm happy to report that the Spanish-language version of City of Bones just came out yesterday. The cover looks familiar! [although they've switched the covers of Bones and Ashes].

I also did an interview with the Spanish paper Publico, which you can read here if you can read Spanish. I cannot, so for all I know the article is very insulting, but I'm assuming not. Thanks to kotori_chan for the link.

3) In a few weeks I leave for Ireland, for a certain Irish Castle Writing Retreat, as already blogged by Maureen Johnson and the redoubtable Sarah Rees Brennan. Basically, I will be spending a week in Somewhere, Ireland, with Robin Wasserman, Holly Black, Carrie Ryan, Ally Carter, Diana Peterfreund, Sarah Cross, and Jennifer Lynn Barnes. Maureen is working on a Super Sekrit Project and I will be wading through the second half of The Clockwork Princess, which is already consuming my life. I predict someone falls into a bog (the peat kind) and is preserved for posterity.

Also I will have tour dates to post soon. Like next week soon.

Book stuff:

1)I've posted the last City of Glass cookies over on my MS blog. Sebastian, Clary, Jace, Magnus and the rest of the gang in their final appearance before the book finally comes out.

2) City of Glass launch party! My first City of Glass book tour stop is going to be at the Borders in Exton, Pennsylvania, and since it's the day CoG comes out, it's going to be a launch party. Apparently one can expect games, discussions, music, a costume contest, cupcakes and other untold delights. I am looking forward to it.

3) My other tour dates are being set, and the tour locations continue to be Pennsylvania (Exton), San Diego, Los Angeles (including Torrance), Houston (where I will be signing at Murder by the Book as well as at the Texas Library Association conference), Ohio, New York, Toronto, and Vancouver. That's all I know. I swear. I am not holding back any details. If it's not posted here then I do not know when/where/how I will be there nor do I know if there's any likelihood of them adding on any extra events. I am very glad however that so many people seem to be enthusiastic about coming to signings! Thank you guys.

4) Locus magazine has released its 2008 Recommended Reading List and City of Ashes is on the Young Adult list. In good company — I'm happy to see Patrick Ness' The Knife of Never Letting Go on there.

Shoe news:

1) No one seemed confident that I could walk in the last pair of shoes I posted about, so instead I chose these:



largely because they have ROBOTS WITH LASER BEAMS SHOOTING OUT OF THEIR EYES ON THE SOLES:



and how awesome is that??? I am so wearing them to the launch party. ROBOTS!

First, if you won an ARC in the ARC contest, it is on its way to you. Some have already gotten theirs . . .

[ETA and two of them have posted reviews for those interested in such]

... but if you are overseas I imagine it will take longer. If you're waiting for the Clockwork Princess chapter, it's being printed and bound and then I'll mail them out.

Secondly, a sneak peek at the cover of the UK/Ireland City of Glass cover. I think it is going to look awesome.



Thirdly, a little info about the City of Glass book tour: I'm going to be in Pennsylvania (Exton), San Diego, LA, Houston (for the Texas Library Association conference), Ohio, New York, Toronto, and Vancouver. More information as I get it, will be posted here.

And lastly, good news for those readers in Australia and New Zealand who do not like to wait — the publication date of City of Glass there has been moved up to March 24, for a simultaneous release with the US edition! I'm very excited and pleased about this. [This doesn't affect the UK/Ireland edition; that'll still be out July 6. *cowers* Look, it's not me, I don't make these decisions! It has to do with marketing!] I will be over in the UK to promote Glass, though probably not in Australia as it is far and expensive for me to go.

In unrelated news, Fluevog is having a sale and I want these:



but am convinced that if I try to walk in them I will hurtle down the stairs.