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• Chain of Gold publication

  So this is my least favorite kind of announcement and the kind I try to avoid having to make. Unfortunately, the time has come where the situation has pretty much been decided for me.
  
  For most of my adult life, I’ve suffered from pretty severe endometriosis. It’s a disease that affects ten percent of women. Lots of you may be familiar with it because of that. What a lot of people don’t know is that there sometimes comes a point where the endo can no longer be controlled by hormonal drugs and surgery has to come into the picture. That’s where I am right now.
  
  I really had hoped I could push through and finish Chain of Gold before I went into surgery. It’s not a dangerous procedure, but it isn’t a small one either. Unfortunately while I was on tour with Holly I was having more and more severe symptoms, and when I returned home I was having pain so bad that I was passing out. You guys may have noticed I haven’t been online as much as usual since about February. My symptoms have been affecting my work, my energy (endometrosis can cause anemia because of internal bleeding) my ability to even get up and go downstairs. Going to Austin for the book signing I just did was a matter of a LOT of codeine (and more blood than I would have ideally liked in my airplane travel.)
  
  So to cut to the chase, I realized I wouldn’t be able to make it another four months without surgery. Being in so much pain has a debilitating effect not just on me but on my work. It’s hard to concentrate and painkillers can control the pain, but make me sleepy and unfocused. With the goal of both taking care of my health and being able to write the best books I can, I agreed along with my publisher that me going through surgery and recovery now was the only possible option, even though it does mean that Chain of Gold will have to be moved back. It will now be published 3/3/2020 — so in 11 months instead of seven.
  
  Lost Book of the White will now be published next year on September 1st, 2020.
  
  It’s only four months, but I know it’s disappointing and upsetting to hear. All I can say is that, in order to try to keep the wait from being too painful, I’ll be releasing a free short story or piece of flash fiction from/about TLH and its characters every month starting in May of this year and ending in February of next year. (I had been hoping to do something like this anyway, but I wouldn’t have been able to definitely do them or do as many if the book publication date hadn’t changed.) Those who are on my mailing list will get the stories first —a few days later they’ll be posted publicly for everyone.
  
  It’s always hard when real-life considerations crash into the creative process. I already have a first draft of Chain that’s in revisions and I can’t wait for you to experience the story of James, Cordelia, Lucie, Matthew, Anna, and so many others. I also can’t wait for you guys to join Magnus and Alec’s new adventure in Lost Book of the White. In the meantime, hopefully you can be sustained by Red Scrolls, Ghosts of the Shadow Market (coming in June), and the short stories and teasers and fanart for Last Hours that I’m so looking forward to sharing with you!
  
  xoxo
  
  Cassie
  

  04/15/19

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  A post shared by Cassie Clare (@cassieclare1) on Apr 15, 2019 at 7:34am PDT

  
  

  It’s always fun to hear how actors bring my characters to life in the audiobooks, and BD Wong is no exception! See (and hear) for yourself in this video of him in the recording studio, and be sure to check out the full audiobook from Simon & Schuster Audio!
  
  Get it here:
  Apple Books: https://apple.co/2UCYcBu
  Google: http://bit.ly/2B8osIU
  Audible: https://adbl.co/2BbQCCZ
  Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RXem89
  BN: http://bit.ly/2RXeEMh
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  04/15/19

• Shinyun

  bladedblackthorn said:hi Cassie!! what inspired the character of Shinyun?
  
  

  Some spoilers and an answer from Wes:
  

  Hi Bladedblackthorn, Wes here. When Cassie and I brainstormed Shinyun, we wanted her to be a different sort of warlock, unique with the ability to do great things. Her marking is the affect-less face, and she is adept in physical combat as well as using magic to fight. We also wanted her villainy to be complex and relateable. Shinyun is strong and powerful like Magnus. Her background, like many warlocks, is tragic. But where Magnus was able find his way out of his awful past and see the good in people, Shinyun couldn’t and succumbed to the darkness. What we wanted to emphasize was how easily Magnus could have walked down that same path she did. So in a way you could say Magnus is our inspiration for her!
  

  04/12/19