Hi Kat! I don't know when the book comes out in the Philippines because I didn't actually know it was distributed there! Do you get the UK or US editions?

Nice to see you again Cassandra!! You ROCK!!

Yup, it is distributed here as well But, they're always out of stock! My friends are complaining cause they can't get a copy of their own.. I just hope that it will be released here at the same it is released there.. By the way, I have the US edition..

Hi Cassandra, I hope you are still looking through this thread. I loved COB and COA. They were fantastic! I love all the humor in COB. My favorite part in COB is on page 345 when Jace tells Dorothea his one true love is himself and he turns himself down occasionally just to keep it interesting. I laughed so hard! I had to read it to everyone in the room. This book would be great as a movie. I have read your comments about the possibilities of it becoming a movie. I think it is a great idea as long as they stay close to the book. My question for you would be is there anybody that us fans could contact to encourage them to do a movie? The reason I ask this is because I just finished another YA book and was looking on the author's website and read that the book was being considered for a movie. I know that doesn't guarantee anything but it just irked me because I thought COB was way better than this book.

You are a great writer and I look forward to COG and whatever else you write! I hope to see you on a book tour for COG (Chicago area).

Thank you for such a great book series!

Thanks for letting me know you liked the books! As far as I know there's no one to contact about doing a movie without contacting every studio and production company in Hollywood, which seems like a lot of work. I should also say — and here I am not in any way making a judgement about this other writer's book, or its status in terms of being made into a film, as I have no idea what's on his/her website or what she/he said specifically — but "being considered for a movie" doesn't mean anything. City of Bones is also being considered for a movie, and so are hundreds of other books — pretty much anyone who has a film agent representing their book can say their book is being considered for a movie. Studios consider a huge number of books for movies. Even having your book optioned doesn't mean it will ever be a movie. Of the books that get optioned, probably 1% ever become actual films.

As for Chicago, I was there on tour for City of Bones last year — maybe they'll send me back for Glass next year.

Hey Cassandra, I've got a question for you that I think hasn't been asked yet. It's kind of a hypothetical question so maybe you haven't thought it out, since it would kind of wreck the romantic tension of the story, but what if...

Simon wasn't in Clary's bed in City of Bones after she and Jace had their "moment" in the green house. What would have happened? How would that have changed the plot?

I don't tend to think those kinds of things out, because — as they say — writing is about choices, so you tend to think about what does happen in the narrative rather than the countless things that don't happen. (That's the job of fanfiction, I feel.) All I can do is think, well, what would the characters have done in that situation, given what I know of them. If they did go into Clary's bedroom, Clary would just have wondered where Simon was, if he wasn't there. If they'd gone to Jace's room, she would still have eventually remembered Simon's existence. I assume she and Jace would have fooled around, so to speak, but it's not as if Clary would have slept with him. I'm not sure it would have wrecked the romantic tension as they still would eventually have found out they were brother and sister and that would have been that. Possibly they would both have been more miserable later, though perhaps not. I'd have to write it out to know.

Cassandra, I just finished COB and COA in the past three days, and just have to say I LOVED them. They were fabulous.

My question for you is actually about your playlists. I noticed you made a playlist for COB (which I very much appreciate BTW. I love having playlists to go along with the books I love), and was wondering if you have one, to share with us, for COA?

Pretty please!

Here's the playlist for CoA:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSt ... =262257082
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> (It's missing one song because the iTunes store doesn't have it:
> "Valentine" by Christie Front Drive.) The songs are:
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> Lover I Don't Have to Love - Bright Eyes
> The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot: Brand New
> Somewhere Only We Know: Keane
> Gore Veil: The Deadly Snakes
> Come Around: Rhett Miller
> The Adventure: Angels and Airwaves
> Lightning Blue Eyes: Secret Machines
> Fall at Your Feet: Crowded House
> Empty Room: Marjorie Fair
> Love is All: The Rapture
> Nearer than Heaven: Delays
> Do You Realize: The Flaming Lips
> Where Does the Good Go: Tegan and Sara
> Valentine: Christie Front Drive
> Only Ashes: Something Corporate

Awesome! Thank you so much.

I just finished both books, and all the spoilers and CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!I am having the best time with the YA adult section right now.

Ok question: Will you continue to have Magnus in coming books? Actually two questions, is this the last book of this series, is this the last book with Clary and Jace? I hope not but do get that somethings have to end. Thanks

nikicole I like The Hunger Games too!

Miss Clare i have two questions, hope you can answer.

1- Are you planing(in the future) to write books about Valentine or(and) Luke or anyother caracther we know for the series?

This next question i really really hope is not a bad one...here i go...

2- Apparently i just got banned for the Mortal Instruments google groups and frankly i dont know the reason. I dont know if this the rigth place to ask this, but i am goin nuts here thinking why if i didnt do nothing wrong i got banned. Why a member can be banned for you groups?


I know my enghlis is not very good, but i know i didnt write nothing innapropiate


Anyway still a fan, love your books, really really love them.

The YA section is definitely pretty great right now.

Glass is the last book of the series. It is the last book with Clary and Jace, yes. The series has always been supposed to be a trilogy. The next trilogy after that does have Magnus in it, but since it takes place a hundred and fifty years before the events of the Mortal Instruments, I think you can see why the other characters won't be in it.

There's more information about the next series here:

www.theinfernaldevices.com

How do you know they even survive this series?

Like it says on my website, Glass is the end of Clary and Jace's story. I might perhaps in future write another present-day Shadowhunter book, in which case it's not impossible that surviving characters from the MI series might show up. But keep in mind that that wouldn't be until 2013, since I won't be done with Infernal Devices until then.



Like I said on the group when you rejoined, I didn't ban you. I don't ban people without telling them why. Sometimes the system at google groups bans you automatically if you send multiple short messages in a short period of time because it thinks you're spamming. That's why it's a good idea to consolidate your short messages into a longer one.

Hello Mrs. Clare,
I LOVED these books, let me just state of obvious first...and secondly I am wondering if you can give me a shred, a crumb of a clue what the Inquisitor said to Jace before she died???!! Is he really Stephen??? I know he's not really Clary's brother, though I think the painful idea of it is just brilliant! Thanks, Jen