Mar. 31: New 'Bane Chronicles' Snippet in Celebration of Finishing an Instalment (Clockwork Princess Spoilers)

In celebration of Cassie and Sarah finishing an installment of The Bane Chronicles, Sarah and Cassie gave us a snippet! (Proceed with Caution: There is a Clockwork Princess spoiler)

James had not seemed to want to be taken from the cold depths of the water: had fought Magnus as he dragged him out, then laid his pale cheek against the dank earth of the riverbank, and hid his face in his arms.

@cassieclare's Q&A in Portland for Clockwork Princess Tour

As you may know, Cassie is currently on her Clockwork Princess March tour. Portland, Oregon is her third last stop for the March tour! NovelNovice was nice enough to keep us up to date on Cassie's Q&A!

About The Mortal Instruments:

Alec and Magnus are both summoned to Idris in CoHF and must interract
— Novel Novice (@NovelNovice) March 24, 2013

Cassie confesses she is not done writing CoHF but hopes to make her deadline still
— Novel Novice (@NovelNovice) March 24, 2013

About The Infernal Devices:

If you want to know how will and jace are related, see the family tree in cp2
— Novel Novice (@NovelNovice) March 24, 2013

List of all the Bane Chronicles installments

The 10 installments for The Bane Chronicles will start as 10 seperate e-books. Later, a print version will be available in 2014. Here is the list of all the short storys with a synopsis (from Cassie's tumblr)

What Really Happened in Peru

(April, 16th, 2013)
by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan

Fans of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices know that Magnus Bane is banned from Peru—and now they can find out why. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles.

There are good reasons Peru is off-limits to Magnus Bane. Follow Magnus’s Peruvian escapades as he drags his fellow warlocks Ragnor Fell and Catarina Loss into trouble, learns several instruments (which he plays shockingly), dances (which he does shockingly), and disgraces his host nation by doing something unspeakable to the Nazca Lines.

This standalone e-only short story illuminates the life of the enigmatic Magnus Bane, whose alluring personality populates the pages of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices series. This story in The Bane Chronicles, What Really Happened in Peru, is written by Sarah Rees Brennan and Cassandra Clare.

Pre-order on: Amazon.com

The Run Away Queen

(May 21, 2013)
By Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

Magnus Bane has a royal role in the French Revolution—if the angry mobs don’t spoil his spells. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles.

While in France, immortal warlock Magnus Bane finds himself attempting to rescue the royal family from the horrors of the French Revolution—after being roped into this mess by a most attractive count. Naturally, the daring escape calls for invisible air balloons…

This standalone e-only short story illuminates the life of the enigmatic Magnus Bane, whose alluring personality populates the pages of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices series. This story in The Bane Chronicles, The Runaway Queen, is written by Maureen Johnson and Cassandra Clare.

Pre-order on: Amazon.com

Vampires, Scones and Edmund Herondale

(June 18, 2013)
By Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan

Magnus Bane leverages his alliances with Downworlders and Shadowhunters on a venture to Victorian London. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles.

When immortal warlock Magnus Bane attends preliminary peace talks between the Shadowhunters and the Downworlders in Victorian London, he is charmed by two very different people: the vampire Camille Belcourt and the young Shadowhunter, Edmund Herondale. Will winning hearts mean choosing sides?

This standalone e-only short story illuminates the life of the enigmatic Magnus Bane, whose alluring personality populates the pages of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices series. This story in The Bane Chronicles, Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale, is written by Sarah Rees Brennan and Cassandra Clare.

Pre-order on: Amazon.com

The Rise of the Hotel Dumont

(July 16, 2013)
By Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

In 1920s Manhattan, Magnus Bane hobnobs with the elite at a glamorous Jazz Age hotspot. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles.

The immortal Magnus Bane is making the most of his time in the Roaring Twenties: He’s settled into New York society and is thriving among the fashionable jazz set. And there is nowhere better to see and be seen than the glamorous Hotel Dumont, a glittering new addition to the Manhattan landscape. But a different type of glamour may be at play…

This standalone e-only short story illuminates the life of the enigmatic Magnus Bane, whose alluring personality populates the pages of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices series. This story in The Bane Chronicles, The Rise of the Hotel Dumont, is written by Maureen Johnson and Cassandra Clare.

Pre-order on: Amazon.com

The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

(August 20, 2013)
By Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

Magnus Bane watches the once-glamorous Hotel Dumont become something else altogether in 1970s New York City. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles.

Fifty years after the Jazz Age rise of the Hotel Dumont, immortal warlock Magnus Bane knows the Manhattan landmark is on the decline. The once-beautiful Hotel Dumont has fallen into a decayed thing, a ruin, as dead as a place can be. But the vampires don’t mind…

This standalone e-only short story illuminates the life of the enigmatic Magnus Bane, whose alluring personality populates the pages of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices series. This story in The Bane Chronicles, The Fall of the Hotel Dumort, is written by Maureen Johnson and Cassandra Clare.

Pre-order on: Amazon.com

Saving Raphael Santiago

(September 17, 2013)
By Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan

—One of the more interesting jobs Magnus has ever been involved in… A distraught mother in 1950s New York hires Magnus to find her son, Raphael, but when Magnus finds him young Raphael is already beyond saving. Or is he?

Pre-order on: Amazon.com

No Immortal Can Keep a Secret

(October 15, 2013)
By Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

Magnus at the turn of the 20th century decides to try this new “psychoanalysis” with Dr. Freud. But clearly the doctor has no experience to help deal with a centuries-old warlock with a very complicated dating history and some very unusual father issues.

Pre-order on: Amazon.com

The Course of True Love [And First Dates]

(November 19, 2013)
By Cassandra Clare

Magnus and Alec’s first date.

Pre-order on: Amazon.com

What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

(December 17, 2013)
By Sarah Rees Brennan and Cassandra Clare

What To Buy The Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (And Who You’re Not Officially Dating Anyway)

Set between City of Ashes and City of Glass. Magnus has to find the perfect birthday present, deal with the demon he’s conjured up for a very irritating client, and work out what’s going on between him and Alec, anyway.

Pre-order on: Amazon.com

The Letter

(December 31, 2013)

By Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson and Sarah Rees Brennan

No spoilers for this one.

Pre-order on: Amazon.com

New Placeholder-cover for The Bane Chronicles: No Immortal Can Keep a Secret

No Immortal Can Keep a Secret (The Bane Chronicles #2)

The first installment of The Bane Chronicles is written by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan, and -as the title suggests- they will cover What Really Happened in Peru. (Check out this page for more information about What Really Happened in Peru)

Today (Feb. 5th) we have the title and the placeholder art for another short story of The Bane Chronicles, and this time, it will be written by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson.

What wondrous adventure do you think Magnus will have in No Immortal Can Keep a Secret?

We Have an Official Bane Chronicles Cover

There will be a total of ten issues of The Bane Chronicles. The first issue will be released Tuesday, April, 16th, as shown by the cover, this short story will cover "What Really Happened in Peru." The ten issues will all be released online (ebooks) and a single print will be released in 2014.

Cassandra Clare's tumblr background aka: The Place Holder Art for The Bane Chronicles

The Bane Chronicles are coming out in less than three months and now we have some Bane cover art!

This was found on the background of Cassandra Clare tumblr page this morning, and later today, Cassie and Sarah Rees Brennan (co-author of The Bane Chronicles) confirm it is the place holder art of The Bane Chronicles. 

Here's what Cassie had to say:

Rule of thumb: THE SHADOWHUNTERS OF TUMBLR NOTICE EVERYTHING! Yes, that is the placeholder art for the Bane Chronicles. It isn’t the final cover, because they have to shoot a model for that, but it’s Magnus’ wizardy hand shooting blue fire, so that’s something!

And here's what Sarah Rees Brennan had to say:

You guys noticed this. ;) Isn’t it pretty? Magnus’s colour is totally blue, and also I just think—well, I have never been part of such a FANCY endeavour before, so I was excited to behold this. A placeholder cover of great prettiness before the cover of great foxiness! (Trust me it will be.)

Cassandra Clare tweets about TMI/TID/TDA/TBC

@cassieclare is back on twitter!

In Case You Missed Cassie's tweets on The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, The Dark Artifices, or The Bane Chronicles, we've gathered all the tweets from yesterday (January, 17th) right here:

Part 1 of The Bane Chronicles will be Released April, 16.

According to one of Cassie's latest tweet, The Bane Chronicles will be released Tuesday, April, 16th, 2013!

Mark your calenders because April 16th is the day we get to read about What Happened in Peru, the first installment of The Bane Chronicles!

The Bane Chronicles Release Date Pushed Back

Originally, The Bane Chronicles were expected to be published in February.

Cassandra Clare tells us due to publishing, creating a cover, etc. the first chapter of The Bane Chronicles will be released in April instead of February.

I am actually still waiting on some details — the first installment is likely to be out closer to April than February, just because of the amount of time it takes in production to get it ready for Amazon, and the amount of time to create a cover, etc. After that they should come out roughly every month online until there have been ten. At some point after that, for those who do not like reading things online, they will be bound up into a book.

Also, each ebook of The Bane Chronicles will cost about $1-3

Each installment will be priced at something reasonable for what is basically a novella (somewhere between 1 and 3 dollars I’d guess) and the cover will be like a regular Mortal Instruments book, featuring Magnus, and for the online publication it will be broken up into ten sections, which as each installment is released will come together to form one big picture.

However, due to this tragic news, Cassie reveals a snippet from The Bane Chronicles written by Sarah Rees Brennan

Dec: 31, 1st Bane Chronicles snippet

The Bane Chronicles: What Really Happened in Peru 

by Sarah Rees Brennan and Cassandra Clare

“Just don’t leave me here,” said Ragnor. “You have to swear, Bane.”
Magnus raised his eyebrows. “I give you my word of honor!”
“I mean it,” Ragnor told him. “I will find you. I will find whatever chest of absurd clothes you have brought with you. And I will bring a llama into the place where you sleep and make sure that it urinates on everything in the chest.”
“There is no need to get nasty about this,” Magnus said. “Don’t worry. I can teach you every word that you need to know right now. One of them is ‘fiesta.’”
Ragnor scowled. “What does that mean?”
“It means ‘party.’ Another important word is ‘juerga.’”
“What does that word mean?”
Magnus was silent.
“Magnus,” said Ragnor, his voice stern. “Does that word also mean ‘party’?”
Magnus could not help the sly grin that spread across his face. “I would apologize,” he said. “But I have no regrets.”

What do you think of the Bane Chronicles so far?

Sarah Rees Brennan talk Bane Chronicles

Sarah Rees Brennan Joins us for Shadowhunter Saturday

Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, and Cassandra Clare are going to write 10 short stories about our high warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane. The short stories are named The Bane Chronicles.

This week for Shadowhunter Saturday, we were tweeting #BaneChronicles. Lucky us, Sarah Rees Brennan joins us AND answers some questions!

About Magnus' wardrobe:

• The beauty of Magnus's wardrobe is that if you ever think 'would Magnus wear...' you instantly go 'YES HE WOULD.'

About Magnus:

• While being hilarious & hot are great, I'd like to be as kind as Magnus secretly is. He helps everyone!
• Magnus has had many romaaaances over the centuries... Maureen Johnson came up with a very EXCITING one

About Camille:

• Camille will feature

About Alec (Malec):

• I think lots of people love his relationship with Alec... & Alec features lots. ;)

About the stories:

• The different stories will be about different points in his life, yes--Peru, Alec, Camille, France, NYC in different decades...
• maybe the Peru story will be known

About the connections to Will, Tessa, Jem:

• One must always be prepared for Herondales