That's right! Cassie has signed a new 3 book deal with Margaret K. McEldberry Books, part of the Simon & Schuster, to write
The Dark
Artifices, a TMI spin off series set in LA, in 2012. Book 1 in this series is set to release in 2015!! How cool is that!
Cassie had previously posted this info about The Dark Artifices:
Okay, a quick recap. I have a plan for another
Shadowhunter trilogy (contemporary, but not about the characters from
TMI).
Working title: The Dark Artifices. It takes place five
years after the end of TMI (ie in 2012) and deals with the Shadowhunters of the
Los Angeles Institute. There is a tangential connection to the characters of TMI
but they are not main characters. The main characters are teens (meaning that
during the events of TMI they’d be 11, 12 years old.)
The main female protagonist’s name is Emma, the main
male protagonist’s name is Julian. They are both Shadowhunters. They both have
always known they are Shadowhunters.
There is love, magic, romantic confusion, etc. and so
on. I have not sold these books; I haven’t written any of them, I won’t until
I’m done with what I’m writing now. So I don’t have a pub date beyond “after
CoHF”, and I have other, non-Shadowhunter projects I’m also planning on. But
thanks for being so interested, everyone!
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The
Washington Post made this announcement:
The
first of “The Dark Artifices” books, currently untitled, will come out in 2015.
According to a statement from the publisher, Clare, who placed her previous work
in contemporary New York and Victorian England, will continue her tales of the
Shadowhunters, a hybrid race “unseen but ever-present, our invisible
protectors.”
“The
series follows Emma Carstairs, the fiercest warrior and most skilled young
Shadowhunter since Jace Wayland, and Emma’s sworn partner in arms, Julian
Blackthorn,” the statement reads. “Despite Emma’s complicated feelings for
Julian, the two must band together to investigate a demonic plot that stretches
from the warlock-run nightclubs of the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that
pounds the beaches of Santa Monica.”
Clare
said in a statement that she was sure readers would love both her new and her
established characters.
“I
know readers will come to love Emma, Mark, Cristina and Julian just as they have
loved Jace, Clary, Will, Tessa and Jem,” she said. “Readers have often asked
what will happen in the Shadowhunter world after the events of the ‘Mortal
Instruments’ and this series will give them a chance to find
out.”
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Cassie also wrote a Tumblr post about this
exciting news which you can read HERE.
This is FANTASTIC! Kim and I both love the TMI & ID series! I can't wait to see what The Dark Artifices has in store for us. So...
CONGRATULATIONS
Cassie!
