Cassandra Clare

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.)

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.

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.

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. :)

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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. :-)

Yes.

Yes, those things are related, but they may not be as they seem. Helpful? Possibly? :-)

My inbox is open briefly at the moment and I'll open it back up Friday around noon EST.

Oh, that's always fun. There's a redcap named Bonecrusher who is always in a bad mood, but it's probably Ash's friends Callen and Cuan, who are twins and while not unhinged, they are not entirely hinged either.

Her name is Ella John. We checked with her to make sure she was ok with us sharing that! She said it was fine and she's looking forward to reading the book. :) You can find her portfolio:

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She is lovely.

They will likely discuss Sherlock* at some point. They talk about the Herondale necklace a lot because It's the thing Magnus enchanted to strengthen Livvy and Ty's bond and Ty always wears it.

However, do they discuss that Kit basically provided the pendant to Magnus for the purpose and that Ty was supposed to have written him a thank you letter? Well, they have agreed not to discuss anything about "their past" at the beginning of the book, so they kind of talk around it. They may think about it, though.

*Kit didn't send Ty a Sherlock book as an Xmas present but I figured this was about the Sherlock book Kit left for Ty in QUAAD.

Im away from home so i cant dig through notes for dates, and some of them are pretty unspecific because when they happen exactly isn’t hugely important. I’ll give you a few with hard dates that align with canon events. In chronological order:

The Good Storm: 1879

A Surfeit of Annas

Zachary’s Day Out

The Beautiful Ajatara

Who the Wolf Loves: 2007, detailing the events of around 1975-1990

Too Wise to Love

City of Broken Hearts

Judgement of King Kieran

The Time of Two

Bred in the Bone

Yes, we find out the Queen put members of the Seelie Court under a geas that prevented them from saying certain things about Ash to outsiders/non-Seelie Court members. We find this out from a different faerie under the geas, who tells it to Kit, and it's mentioned in relation to Nene as well. We haven't explored the concept of the geas much before, but it's an old part of Faerie folklore and would supersede the "not lying" — especially since most of what Nene says in TDA (that she doesn't know exactly how old Ash is now and wouldn't recognize him) — is true.

Yes, you'll see his POV in Last King of Faerie.

In the Anna and Ariadne story in Better in Black, we do see what Matthew and Sylvain are up to! There are also hints about them in several of the other stories, like Who The Wolf Loves (Luke/Jocelyn.)

I will share a thing to think about? Ash has the power to make people love him and want to please him, so how does that go when he can't turn it off? Even if he wants to? :-)