Cassandra Clare
I’m Cassandra Clare. I write the Castellane chronicles and the Shadowhunters books. The Last King of Faerie is out November 3!
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Maybe this is an odd question but is Kit able to safely consume faerie fruit?
He doesn't know . . . yet.
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if you could describe ash’s feelings for dru at the start of tlkof in one word – what would it be? <3
Conflicted.
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Hi Cassie! Just wanted to ask, we know from sobh that Kit and Dru text, but how much do they text each other? Do they text casually every few days, do they obsessively text each other every time something that they think the other would appreciate...
Yes, Kit is not a very reliable texter and does avoid conversations about Ty especially with Ty's sister (unfortunate for him that Livvy can hassle him literally eternally if she feels like it) and when they meet again in TWP they haven't been texting for a while. They are fond of each other, though, in a familyish way.
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Hey, Cassie! How old is Dru in TLKOF? Thanks!
She's seventeen. She and Ash are probably a few months apart in age though his age is slightly harder to pin down.
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Will we see Ty interacting with Irene in TLKOF? Is she just left with Anush? (I love Irene so much ❤️)
I also love Irene, but alas, you cannot take a lynx on a read trip easily. It does not mean Ty will never meet Irene tho.
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hey cassie, hope you’re doing well!! i was just curious, how involved is livvy going to be in tlkof in trying to mediate between kit & ty once they reunite? is she trying to get them to talk about things or is she just trying to let them work things...
She does think they should work things out, but she isn't really meddling. She at some point does warn Kit not to break her brother's heart (again) but otherwise she doesn't interfere, probably because she realizes that if they were to mend things with each other, it would have to be their decisions on their own terms.
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Hello Cassie, hope your well. I’m sure you are tired BVD questions and I know it can’t be published (or written) until after LKF because of the timeline. I was just wondering, since you are working on LPH now, if BVD is in the beginning stages of...
Hi! Well, BVD takes place in the time period between book 2 and book 3 of The Wicked Powers. So it can't be published until after book 2 regardless of schedule — you're right that working out a schedule for a co-written book is doubly complicated since you have to work with two people's schedules!
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Hi Cassie! I was hoping you could clear something up for us! I’ve seen a lot of people pretty confused about Ash’s age, since apparently he grew up pretty fast (or a longer time went by in Faerie than in the mortal world which is why he is around 13 in...
Ash is actually around eighteen in TLKOF. I don't know if that changes the calculations!
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Hello Cassie, Very excited for The Last King of Faerie. My question is: does Ash still have that chinchilla, or was it cut? Best wishes!
The chinchilla did not make it into the book, though there is a hint about it if you're looking closely. The chinchilla is angry about being cut and its agent is arguing that it should get a larger role in the next book, or at least a credit as executive producer.
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Hi Ms. Clare, I have noticed from the time you announced TWP trilogy obviously a lot of things have changed. I just need to confirm, Ty, Kit, Dru and Ash are in fact the main characters while Jaime, and the others are mostly supporting cast?
Ty, Kit, Dru and Ash are still the main characters; I wouldn't say any of the other characters are main characters.
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Hi Cassie ❤️ I have a silly question about Kit’s style: We’re all aware that he has that jacket on 24/7, but what does he wear besides that? What does he wear when he washes that jacket? Will he just freeze?
Actually I had to deal with the fact that Kit at eighteen/nineteen cannot POSSIBLY fit into a jacket he had when he was fifteen so he obviously had to go out and buy the exact same jacket in a larger size. Which does get mentioned. Kit thinks that might make him weird, and it probably does.
(He does take it off when he wears gear, though, and enough time doesn't really pass in TKLOF to worry about laundry.)
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Hellooooo! I love your books, you are one of my favourites writers. My question is: is Livvy going to stay with Ty the whole time in tlkof? Will she ever be separated from him in a way that seriously affects them both?
She is separated from him a time or two, and the separation does affect them both. It's very clear that their bond is under a lot of pressure, magically speaking.
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Will Ash be as much of a fashion icon as Conor ??
You know, he actually did remind me a lot of Conor while I was writing him — probably the dissipated prince thing. He definitely has nice clothes and is fashionable, and does a certain amount of complaining when his clothes are ruined, but I don't think anyone is as much of a fashion icon as Conor, though it would be fun to see if Ash could start a trend in court of like, faeries wearing cowboy hats made out of moss or something. If he wore it everyone else would probably have to.
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Hello! Thank you so much for writing these books, they’ve been such a huge part of my life! I’m really intrigued by the idea of prophecies in this world. What or who exactly is their origin? Like is it something derived from a higher power or is it...
That's a good question! TWP is the first series to really revolve around a prophecy. The current prophecy (not all of which has been deciphered) is a bit like a series of threats ("If someone does not do X, Y will happen) but they feel obligated to take it seriously since it's been right about a lot of things that have happened and continue to happen (so it cannot be mere speculation). Even though, you're right, they don't know the source. It's probably always a good idea to regard the source of a prophecy with some suspicion. :)
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Hi! I am so sorry if there was confusion about this. The Wicked Powers was never supposed to be four books that I remember — it was sold to publishers as a trilogy. (If it was meant to be four books, it would have been sold as four books, publishers like to know what they are getting!)
Here is the official announcement of Wicked Powers being sold, which calls it “the final trilogy” in Shadowhunters.
In 2023 I sort of mused out loud about how many books it might end up being, but it was very “I don’t know” and that that was before the announcement (in 2024) that it was going to be a trilogy. And you never do know. I’d have to be further along in the story to decide whether a fourth book was needed, so all I can say is that it’s supposed to be a trilogy, it was sold as a trilogy, but then so was TMI.
I know there is a lot of anxiety about the fact that there are four main characters and three covers at the moment. I don’t know who is going on the later covers but I can promise you this is something my publisher is well aware of! We’ll figure something out. And if eventually it does stretch to four books, well, that would fix that problem!
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Hey !! I love all the editions you announced about TLKOF ( especially the barnes and noble one ) but most of them are only available in the States.. do you plan anything more accessible to international fans ??
Hey! Well, as authors, we don't really get to determine who does what special editions. It's up to stores and the like. I can tell you there will be at least one book box edition that isn't US based and at least two other UK based special editions. If you loved the B&N one, you just need to wait about a week or two.
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Will Ty be a centurion at the start of TLKOF? And how will he be able to leave the Scholomance for their road trip?
The Scholomance isn't really about chasing down students and making them come back if they don't want to. It's voluntary to be there.
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Hi Cassie, Thank you for writing such wonderful stories all these years. Your characters have me in a chokehold since I was 11. My question is regarding the new management style lol - young shadowhunters in every series have a habit of going over the...
This is a very funny question. I do get what you mean: in the past, young Shadowhunters have had to deal with a corrupt or incompetent Clave along with other enemies. Now we know the Clave is neither corrupt nor incompetent, and hopefully not too many jerks are in positions of influence. I can promise that Alec has not gone mad with power or anything.
So indeed, in this iteration of things, the Clave is not the problem. The Clave is also sort of split, and the Cohort remains a threat, along with plenty of other evildoers. As for why the kids have to handle some of this themselves and not have the Consul etc. handle it, well. Let's just say things are chaotic and it isn't possible for the adults to handle all the kids' problems.
(Ty, Kit and Dru are not currently doing any necromancy, although they will have to all deal with the fallout from past necromancy. )
Also, I set my alarm to remind me to open up my inbox for questions, then it didn't go off! I am technologically cursed. Trying to be more reliable, though!
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I don’t know if this would be considered a spoiler but I’m curious. Are there going to be flashbacks in TLKoF like there was in Lady Midnight/ Chain of Gold or is just set in the present timeline?
There aren’t structural flashbacks, but between each chapter there are interstitials. These can be anything from pages from a book of Faerie history to the viewpoints of characters we haven’t seen much in the main narrative stories or an alternate perspective on a scene we’ve already experienced. There is one big flashback I can think of but it’s more like a vision of something that was forgotten than a journey into the past. At the moment there are more flashbacks in LPOH.
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Hey Cassie, it’s been a while, I’m 33 next week. It been a fun 15 years reading your books. Recently I read Castellane, also beautifully written. Shadowhunter world remains my favorite though, and I’m a Blackstairs girl. I’m still gathering up the...
Bred in the Bone is sad, but not because anything terrible happens to Julian or Emma. It is more sad in the philosophical sense of reminding us that nothing is permanent, that as Stephen King once titled a story, "All that you love will be carried away." Mortality, human nature, love, you know. The little stuff.
So it's not so much sad as haunting, I would say. And Emma and Julian are fine; we see them in book one. Still happy, still together. :-)
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