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At her book party on August 22nd at Bryant Park in NYC, Cassandra Clare announced some pretty amazing news!

1. MOVIE MOVIE MOVIE! The movie rights to the Mortal Instruments have been sold to Bob Shaye and Michael Lynn's Unique Features (these are the same people who worked on Lord of the Rings and the Golden Compass, so I have very little worries). It is still very early on in the whole movie-making business, so don't expect anything concrete for a while.

2. FOURTH MORTAL INSTRUMENTS BOOK! You might have heard rumor that Cassie was writing a book for Simon. While she was originally thinking of it to be something separate, her publishing company felt that since the familiar characters were still in the background, it would be best to keep it in the series. Sooo, the Mortal Instruments will no longer be a trilogy, but a series! This book, called the City of Fallen Angels, is due March 2011 (and if you're keeping track, this is right in between the release of the first book for the Infernal Devices and the second book of that series).

3. COMIC BOOK! The Simon book was originally meant to be a graphic novel, but as she continued writing, Cassie felt it was more comfortable in a regular novel format. However, interest was still kept in the series, and now Th3rd Studios will be adapting the series into comic books.

For more information and links to articles, check "Thank You, Cassandra Clare" Facebook Group and MundieSource.net

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It was a great event! We had to wait a little bit for the event to start, so I finished reading Ironside by Holly Black (great book! It's the end of the series, so definitely look it up and read it all!). When the event started, she announced her amazing announcements and then went on to questions. When I asked her my question (about how Jocelyn and Luke are doing), she was all like "Hey, Amy," and I was all like "Heeeey!" Then the event continued while I was all giddy lol

Since Cassie had signed all of my other books the last time I saw her, I decided to bring my new copy of Geektastic (which is a compilation of short-stories by dozens of authors celebrating their geekiness lol). Her agent saw me with the copy and he got so excited! While I was on line waiting to get to Cassie, Holly Black CAME TO ME and ASKED ME if she could sign my copy of Geektastic! I was going to ask her after seeing Cassie anyways, but it was made extra awesome that she came to me! Then she found it even funnier that I had finished reading Ironside while at an event for a different author! She's awesome

Afterward, I found Holly again to get a picture and then went off to catch my bus. However, when I looked back I also saw Robin Wasserman (author of Skinned, Hacking Harvard, the Seven Deadly Sins series, and others) and I got excited again! I had won a signed copy of Skinned like two weeks before from her twitter, so I went to tell her that and ask for her picture. She remembered me and then explained that when I was talking to Holly Black, she was telling everyone else "One day that will be me and people will want MY picture!" so she got really excited when I talked to her and said I "made her week."

Pictures since people always ask:
Cassie and me
Holly Black and me
Robin Wasserman and me

Also, John Green (author of An Abundance of Katherines, Looking for Alaska, and Paper Towns, and half of vlogbrothers and Nerdfighter) had his birthday on August 24th. His brother Hank asked for videos of people wishing him a happy birthday. Since John knows Cassie and Holly, Ashley (of MundieSource) and I got a video with them saying happy birthday to John! Check it out at 1:25 in this video: [link]

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Overall, very successful time More art to come soon (both fanart and photography)

Thanks to everyone for the hundreds of favorites I've been getting! I feel very honored!!!

~Amy