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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Clockwork Princess News: Book Trailer & Interactive App Coming Soon!


We're 1 month away from Clockwork Princess's release and Cassie's recently announced some exciting news! She announced last week on Twitter that we'd be seeing the Clockwork Princess trailer sometime this week. Today Cassie posted this:

Hi Cassie, You said the book trailer for CP2 will be out by Feb… the end of Feb is 10 days away. Do you perhaps have an exact date? Need to mark my calender LOL "


Well, I never know specifically because usually what happens is they give the trailer to MTV or Entertainment Weekly and they kinda run it when they run it. But it’s supposed to be this week, if that helps.

Next week they’ll be revealing the whole first chapter of Clockwork Princess — yep, not the prologue, which you already got (on the app, and if you search the clockwork-princess-prologue tag)  but the whole first chapter. It’s going to be interactive, and should be lots of fun. :)

Get the Shadowhunter application HERE

Cassie's also answered some recent CP2 questions on her Tumblr:

Hi there Cassie! :) I wanted to ask you- you may have been asked before but - did you always know who Tessa was going to end up with? Did you plan the OTP way back in the beginning when you were writing about your characters?— aqsa-naveed2 

I get asked all the time! — not that I mind answering.

My initial reaction is always “But how could I write the books if I didn’t know?” But then, I just asked Paolo Bacigalupi and Delia Sherman if they know how their books end when they start them and they said, not always. On the other hand they did say that if they were writing trilogies/series they probably would feel obligated to plan ahead. You can go back and edit a single book once you work the ending out, but you can’t go back and edit books that are already published. So I would think not knowing how your trilogy turns out would really screw you in the end. How do you structure? How do you foreshadow? Wouldn’t you be wandering around in a fog, bashing into things?


On the other hand, I bet there are writers for whom it does succeed to just work things out as they go. I am just not one of them. Holly is right when she says she doesn’t just know how Infernal Devices and Mortal Instruments end, she knows how Dark Artifices ends. I feel like I need to know those things, because these are books where the past shapes the future in a very real way.


Anyway, I went back and looked at the proposal I wrote (a proposal is a detailed synopsis that you send a publisher to sell them books that aren’t yet written) for The Infernal Devices back in 2008, and yes, the current version, romance-wise, ends exactly the same way. Other details changed. I found this paragraph:



Tessa comments sorrowfully to Jem that Will is nothing like she thought he was; that when she’d first met him he’d been kind, and now he was horrible. “If you saw him be weak, he’ll hate you for it,” Jem tells her, “but he needs people like that, too, people who know he’s more than he seems to be. Persevere and you will find in him a person worth knowing.”

Which — I don’t think every actually happened, but thematically, basically remains the same general stuff; Jem defends Will, Will’s a jerk with reasons, etc. On the other hand, there’s also a scene in Rye that didn’t make it in, characters that got cut (a childhood friend of Will’s) and other changes. Mostly because I found better ways of expressing those details or getting across those character points, or just realized the original ideas didn’t work and scrapped them.

How Tessa’s romantic life plays out though, has never changed an iota, mostly because part of the idea for the books was wanting to write a very specific kind of love story. Ideally when you’re writing about people in love, you’re also writing about the nature of love, and of life, and about the things you think are important. A love story isn’t just how it ends: it’s how it progresses. If it were going to have ended differently, it would have to have progressed differently too. I think when you get to the end - the very end, end - hopefully what you’ll feel is that it couldn’t have ended any other way.
(via cassandraclare) quoted from here

2 comments:

  1. Ohhh I can't wait to read the first chapter!! I love that app, it's so awesome!!

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