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Happy birthday, Jace! Poor Clary. The cleanup from a spaghetti bath must be intense …

Art by Cassandra Jean, of course, and in honor of Jace’s birthday, a snippet from Red Scrolls of Magic:

“How’s Paris?” asked Jace idly. “If you’re not having fun, you could come back early.”

“Paris is nice,” said Alec. “How are things?”

“Well, my business is looking great and  fighting demons, and business is good,” said Jace.

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Is everyone enjoying Queen of Air and Darkness????? 

I usually wait at least a month before drawing anything spoilery for the books for all the folks who can’t read right away. But I can still do some doodles to tide myself over!! 

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Reworked an older piece from last year, much happier with it now! 

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A gorgeous poster done by our lovely Cassandra Jean of Magnus and Alec in Red Scrolls of Magic. This will be given away at the ALA Midwinter and other library conferences – look closely to see of some of the neat objects from the book strewn throughout the illustration, like a travel poster of the Orient Express, a Venetian carnival mask, and some tentacles :D

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Kit and Ty and Ghosts of the Shadow Market — spoilers for Queen of Air and Darkness!

thatanimetrash111 said: I know Kit and Ty will be in the last two stories of GotSM and then TWP, but I was wondering if GotSM would provide conclusion for the tension between the two of them or will we have to wait until TWP. Thank you so much!

Well, here’s the thing about the short story collections: I love them, and I appreciate the fans who love and read them, but they are material for superfans, basically — I’d say 90% of my readership never reads them and doesn’t know what happens in them. So we/I generally avoid having massive developments take place in them that would completely confuse readers who went from one “main” book series to another — as most will go from TDA to TWP — if they didn’t know about them. That means major deaths don’t happen (to those shaking their fists about George, he was introduced in and died in Tales, so if you didn’t read it, you were never confused by his absence in TDA since as far as you knew, he didn’t exist anyway.)

Since Kit and Ty are two of the three protagonists–Dru is just as important–of TWP, it wouldn’t be fair to anyone to end their story and solve their problems in a short story, and would also baffle anyone who didn’t read the short stories — because they left Kit and Ty in one place, and they’re expecting to see how that plays out, not find out it happened in between the series. (That always peeves me when I’m reading — like two people are about to get together at the end of a book and then the second book has a five year time jump and they’re married and I missed the whole thing.)

The anthologies are meant as nice additions to the ongoing plotline, but optional additions. I think they deepen and enrich the experience of reading, but it wouldn’t be fair to Kit and Ty to take the whole arc of their relationship story and crush it down to a ten thousand word story instead of a full trilogy of books. I know it sucks to wait, but it’s better to wait and get a full and fabulous meal than get one goldfish cracker sooner. :)

So, no conclusions promised. But you’ll see Kit and Ty, and get more insight about them, and more of an idea of how their lives will be in the years between TDA and TWP!

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Merry Xmas from Malec

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Top nine posts from 2018! So much appreciation for art, the Chain of Gold cover, and my staircase. ;) love you all and looking forward to an amazing year in 2019 with THREE books out – Red Scrolls of Magic, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, and Chain of Gold! A Shadowhunter year! https://www.instagram.com/p/BsEL90oAGZg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15uoec91r5wix

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the last hours posters [12/10] ⟶ Thomas Lightwood

“Why should we isolate people who are brave enough to try to become like us–who want to help people? Why should we treat them as if they’re less than us, until they prove their worthiness or die? I won’t do it.”

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Aline calling her wife ‘baby’ and standing up for her gives me life.

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“To never being parted,” Kit said, looking across the campfire at Ty.

Ty’s thin face was limned in light from the red-gold flames. “To never being parted,” he said, with a grave emphasis that made Kit shiver for reasons he did not understand.

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Not to be dramatic but I’d die for Kit Herondale

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when you meet someone with the same name as you

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make me choose: @pretzel4141 asked: kit or ty

The soft cotton of Ty’s shirt, the feeling of Ty’s hair brushing against his cheek as he hid his expression from Ty by burrowing his face against the other boy’s shoulder. He could hear Ty breathing. He threaded his arms around Ty, crossing his cold hands over Ty’s back. When Ty leaned into him with a sigh, he felt like he’d won a race he didn’t know he was running.

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I just realised that since LOS we’ve heard Kit say how much he wants to protect Ty, so I can’t wait for Ty protecting Kit in TWP.