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Endpaper illustrations for Illumicrate edition of Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare.
In the actual book, they're positioned in a way that makes them look at each other across the pages <3
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Map of Castellane! I’m pretty sure if you tap on it you can embiggen it. Castellane is a sort of mash up; a French-inflected version of Venice at the height of its trading power. Illustration by Sarah J. Coleman.
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Happy release day to 'Sword Catcher': Book Review + Exclusive Interview
Happy release day to Cassandra Clare and her debut adult fantasy novel Sword Catcher! We have come a long way since its first announcement in 2017 and I am thrilled to celebrate Cassie and her new book today. Sword Catcher is now available in bookstores and online as an ebook or audio book. The audio book is narrated by Christian Coulson (aka Tom Riddle in the second Harry Potter movie 😉 ) and…
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Merren Asper and Ji An from Sword Catcher ⚔️
Art by Sasha Coleman
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Merren: Isn’t this going a little too far?
Kel, poisoning himself: No, why would you think that?
#sword catcher#sword catcher incorrect quotes#incorrect sword catcher quotes#kel saren#merren asper#cassandra clare#source: unknown#sword catcher spoilers#tcoc#the chronicles of castellane
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A TSC fan would recognize this everywhere, am I right? I wonder if it was done on purpose, an Easter egg of sorts. This is the typical parabatai interaction we get in every tsc series
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There are two kinds of CC fans right now
#cassandra clare#sword catcher#twp#the wicked powers#kit herondale#ty blackthorn#dru blackthorn#ash morgenstern
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You ever read a scene in a book and think, “Oh yes. I am SO going to come back and reread you SO MANY TIMES—“
#me with that one scene in sword catcher#where Lin tends to Conor’s wounds#lives in my mind rent free#sword catcher#lin caster#conor aurelian#kel saren#the chronicles of castellane#the ragpicker king
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#when conor told kel to give him his pants-#sword catcher#cassandra clare#kellian saren#conor aurelian#not shadowhunters
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Summary: Virtual Author Talk with Cassandra Clare at San Anselmo Public Library (23/08/23)
Cassie wrote her first “novel” when she was 12 on a Mac computer, the infamous The Beautiful Cassandra that she regularly teases to us. She got into writing fiction professionally full-time after leaving her journalism job in 2006.
Finishing City of Bones took about 3-4 years because it was her first novel. Holly Black was the one who hooked her up with her first agent who then got the book published, which was a really new experience. She said that the publishing process was initially surprising to her because of how crazily long it takes to get a single book published.
Cassie acknowledges that City of Bones is starkly “different” from the rest of all her books in colour and voice, because of how experimental the novel writing process was for her. She said she thinks she’s evolved a lot as a writer since then.
She aims for psychological realism in her books even though it’s fantasy. She tries to see each character as a fully-formed person who can exist outside of the immediate plot. She creates worksheets to write her characters.
She also believes it’s necessary to let your main characters make bad mistakes – she cites Matthew as a prominent example i.e. someone highly reactive to their own mistakes. Matthew is defined by his regret and his need to fix his mistakes. She thinks Matthew is one of the most relatable characters because of this.
She’s very drawn to the found family trope because of how much she moved around as a kid – the stability and love of a found family is something she’s worked to build her whole life. She emphasizes the importance of friendship and its different forms in life.
Cassie cites Magnus as the character who turned out most differently than she had initially planned – she hadn’t originally anticipated how significant Magnus would be in the wider scheme of the series.
Doing The Last Hours was, at least a little, in response to people’s excitement about The Family Tree back in 2013.
Her advice for writing fantasy worlds is to create a flexible and expansive magic system so it can grow with you as a writer. She also emphasizes letting your favorite characters make poor decisions – your characters determine the plot and not the other way around.
Cassie strikes a balance between planning worldbuilding details beforehand and then spontaneously adding in new things in the writing process. The Scholomance is an example of something new that was added later in the TSC writing chronology.
She decided that Sword Catcher had to be in the adult publishing category because when she initially developed the characters, they just appeared as people in their twenties. With TSC, the characters had just appeared to her as teenagers then. Writing characters in these different life stages was interesting and challenging.
Sword Catcher is the first in a duology, but she’d like it to be four books if it’s successful.
Cassie has always wanted to write Shadowhunters in the Roaring ‘20s but she has no idea what the plot would possibly be.
She doesn’t read TSC fanfiction, but her husband has informed her of a popular Magnus X BTS fanfiction on AO3. She stays away from fanfiction, but she is very invested in the fanart of her works. Her favorite artist is, of course, Cassandra Jean, and she also loves Charlie Bowater.
She loves writing with Holly Black and probably would only do more Middle Grade writing with her.
She is very much anti-censorship and anti-banning books, especially because of the form it takes in the US (aka, censorsing books dealing with issues affecting the BIPOC and queer communities).
She doesn’t believe they’ll do another TMI adaptation in any form, even though she doesn’t believe the TMI books’ story was ever truly told. She hopes, one day, that TID can get made as it’s the most adaptable series in her catalogue for logistical reasons.
If she couldn’t be a fiction writer, her dream job would be a travel writer. She intensely loves traveling and making her characters travel as well.
Her favorite author of all time is Dorothy Dunnett. She thinks you should check out The Queen’s Thief by Megan Whaler Turner (I agree). And she’s currently reading Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak (I really enjoyed this one).
#cassandra clare#cassie clare#tsc#the shadowhunter chronicles#tlh#the last hours#tmi#the mortal instruments#tid#the infernal devices#twp#the wicked powers#sword catcher#ya fantasy
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when he thinks about her too much:
it's disgusting (the cruel prince, holly black)
it's like a fever (sword catcher, cassandra clare)
#cardan greenbriar#conor aurelian#jurdan#jude duarte#linnet caster#lin caster#the cruel prince#tcp#sword catcher#sc spoilers#the folk of the air#tfota#tfota parallels#sc parallels#holly black#cassandra clare
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Cassie's publishing plans + things you can do while waiting for TWP (under the video)
The Wicked Powers - 2025👸🏼🔫(but read my thoughts below pls)
Sword Catcher - October 10
Secrets Of Blackthorn Hall (kickstarter), which is gonna include "other Shadowhunter material" (new short stories and something "mysterious" else) - 2024
Eldest Curses - unknown, but it will come out at some point during The Wicked Powers, please don't die while waiting🫶
So TWP comes out in 2 years. Listen🖐️I know how it sounds, but heeey it's not actually too long if you think of it. She hasn't even started writing and we were waiting for the Chain of Thorns around the same amount of time✊ focus on the fact that these two years will be full of different kind of new content!
We can read Sword Catcher, it looks and sounds like something exciting
We'll get lots of new arts for TWP and maybe something else for TLH
In a year we'll be able to hold a physical copy of SOBH and get !new! short stories✨
We'll probably get extra ChoT content, maybe explicit scenes or sth
Snippets💅🏻
#cassandra clare#tsc#shadowhunters#twp#the wicked powers#tda#sobh#secrets of blackthorn hall#sword catcher#dru blackthorn#the eldest curses#chain of thorns#tlh#kit herondale#ty blackthorn
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Hi!! Have you a Ragpicker King snippet to share? Perhaps one of Kel and Antonetta? Thanks!!!
Sure!
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“Gremont is not a good man,” said Kel. “It is why he was exiled.”
“I know that. Of all people,” Antonetta added, in a low voice, “I thought you, at least, did not believe me completely foolish.”
A feeling like despair seized him. She was so close he could see her pulse beating in her throat, the rise and fall of her locket with her quick breaths, yet she felt as distant as she had ever been.
“You pretend to foolishness,” he said. “It is your armor.”
She raised her head at that, and looked at him. Her blue eyes so dark they seemed black in the low light. “We all have armor,” she said. “As if you do not have yours, Kel Anjuman.”
He choked on the words he could not say. I am the Prince’s armor. I cannot have my own.
“Antonetta —”
She took a step back. “You are not my father, not brother or lover,” she said. “You have no rights here.”
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ngl I was waiting for this. wouldn't be a Cassandra Clare novel without it lmao
#though she has changed it up a bit. from crow to raven 🫶#upgrades people upgrades#bella talks#sword catcher#cassandra clare
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They’re so much like the crows:
Ji-An like Inej, with her knives
Merren like Wylan
And of course
Andreyen like Kaz~
#sword catcher#the ragpicker king#andreyen#cassandra clare#ji-an#merren asper#castellane#kel saren#lin caster#conor aurelian#adult fantasy#fantasy books#books#six of crows#crooked kingdom#six of crows duology
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Take me away to Castellane ✨
#booklr#book photography#book picture#open book#book map#sword catcher#cassandra clare#fiction#fantasy#book lover#book nerd#bookworm#bibliophile#book aesthetic#book community#my photos#mine
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