The Bane Chronicles By: Cassandra Clare

So I just finished reading The Clockwork Princess, which was amazing, and I'm kind of on a Cassandra Clare high :) After looking through her awesome website I stumbled upon this news...starting April 16, 2013, Cassandra Clare will be teaming up with acclaimed YA writers Maureen Johnson and Sarah Rees Brennan to create the Bane Chronicles! This will serve as the backstory of Mangus Bane and will include ten linked stories. For anyone who hasn't read the Infernal Devices or the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare, definitely give them a shot. I adore these books and I can't wait for the backstory of Mangus, the warlock who quickly became one of my favorite characters in the Clockwork Princess. Here's all the information, which can also be found on Cassandra Clare's webiste.

Cheers,
Heather

 

 

Look for short stories like Vampires, Scones and Edmund Herondale; The Rise and Fall of the Hotel Dumort; Saving Raphael Santiago and What To Buy The Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (And Who You’re Not Officially Dating Anyway). Each story will be available as an ebook (Kindle, Nook, iTunes — however you usually buy ebooks!) on a monthly basis starting April 16 with the tale of What Really Happened In Peru. Each story will be released online for the next ten months — and then for those who don’t read e-books, the full print collection will be available in bookstores and wherever else books are sold. (All of these installments are available for pre-order on Amazon at $2.99. They will also be available for Nooks, Kindles, Sony e-readers, Ipads, and however else you may read e-books. Though the individual stories will not be released in print editions, eventually the collection will be bound as a book and released in stores. Currently, I don’t have information about when the stories will be up on other websites, or when/whether it will be translated into other languages. )

Synopses, publication dates and authors:

What Really Happened in Peru (April 16, 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.

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

Mangus 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…

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?

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…

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…

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?

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.

The Course of True Love [And First Dates] (November 19, 2013)
By Cassandra Clare

Magnus and Alec’s first date.

What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (December 17, 2013)
By: Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan

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.

The Letter (December 31, 2013)
By Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson and Sarah Rees Brennan
No spoilers for this one.