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So I’ve just returned from the NYC Clockwork Prince release signing. There are a few pictures included in this post, but you can see a few more either on Facebook or Tumblr, depending on your preference. Cassie and Ed Westwick! What more could you ask for, right?

Well, maybe you want a copy of Clockwork Prince because you don’t have one yet. And maybe you want that copy to be signed.

Wish, receive, dear friends. Wish, receive.

You may have seen my posts on Twitter when I read Clockwork Prince back in September: This is, in my opinion, Cassie’s best book to date. Aside from the lovely characterization that we have all come to know and love, this book is subtle as it splinters your heart into pieces. And why wouldn’t I want to inflict that pain on share it with all of you?

It’s nearly 2 AM. I know that a lot of people out there are still reading Clockwork Prince and I have a strict no-spoiler rule about me, so I’m not going to say anything more until tomorrow afternoon (when you can bet your bottom dollar there will be a well-marked, spoiler-filled, angst-ridden post on this very website). But I am going to give y’all the opportunity to get your hands on the copy I had Cassie sign at the event tonight.

So who wants it? It’s as simple as commenting on this post before Tuesday, December 13 at 11:59 PM ET! If you want a second entry, you can post about this giveaway (here’s a short link: http://dft.ba/-cpga ) on Twitter and/or Tumblr and link to said post in your comment. Look at that! Three shots at winning. And it’s very pretty (and shiny!).

Names will be entered into a spreadsheet and the winner will be picked by a random number generator.

Please, please, please make sure you are either registered on MundieSource or that you include your e-mail in your comment! If you win, I need to contact you! If I contact you and you do not respond within one week, the prize will go to someone else. You’d think this wouldn’t happen, but it has happened several times!

As with all of MS.net’s giveaways, this is open internationally.

If you’re already reading CP: Enjoy!

If you’re not yet: What are you waiting for? Grab a box of tissues and get going!

EDIT: The contest is now closed! The winner has been notified! If she does not respond within seven days, I will move on to the next person! Thank you all for participating!

I just got the Clockwork Prince chapter titles, fresh from Cassie Clare in Australia! If you haven’t seen the cover yet, you should totally click on it for the full view because it is beautiful! I’m gonna let Cassie take it from here, so enjoy! (And tell me what you think in the comments! I’m expecting mass heartbreak with this book.)

So below is a list of the titles of the chapters in Clockwork Prince. This is in the mold of the post I made about the chapter titles of CoFA, back in February 2010. The chapters, the titles of them, the source of the title if it’s from a poem, and even a few lines and spoilers. Since I’m away most of June, this will be the June Clockwork Prince teaser!

Prologue: The Outcast Dead
Will visits the Cross Bones Graveyard in London.

Chapter One: The Council Chamber
Pretty literal — the Council meets to discuss whether Charlotte is fit to run the Institute; we see a bit more of the Lightwoods, not to mention the Waylands and some other familiar families.

Chapter Two: Reparations
“Mr. Bane has been awaiting your arrival, sir,” said the footman, and stepped aside to let Will enter.

Chapter Three: Unjustifiable Death
The term, under the Accords, for a Shadowhunter killing a Downworlder without provocation.

“This was the first time she had been alone with Will in weeks.”

Chapter Four: A Journey
Tessa, Will and Jem leave the Institute and in fact, London entirely.

“Gabriel Lightwood strode across the room to meet them. He really was quite tall, Tessa thought, craning her neck to look up at him. As a tall girl herself, she didn’t often find herself bending her head back to look up at men.”

Chapter Five: Shades of the Past
This one is a pun that will probably only make sense upon actual reading. Althpugh one of the themes of the book is how the past affects the present.

Chapter Six: In Silence Sealed
Again the theme is hidden secrets. The title comes from a Charlotte Bronte poem. “In secret kept, in silence sealed.” Tessa begins to uncover the secrets of her own origins.

Chapter Seven: I had to redact the title of this chapter. It’s a spoiler.

“When Will truly wants something,” said Jem, quietly, “when he feels something — he can break your heart.”

Chapter Eight: The Purposes of Wrath
The title here comes from Thomas de Quncey’s (yes de Quincey!) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. The paragraph is about addiction, and both the pleasures and the pains of opium, and the chapter is not dissimilar. Also, we meet Ragnor Fell.

Chapter Nine: Fierce Midnight
This chapter ends the night begun in the previous chapter. And has some pretty hot kissing. Titled after a Swinburne poem.

Chapter Ten: The Virtue of Angels
The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man’s flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve. —The Talmud

Someone rather unexpected hits Gabriel — who, really, was asking for it.

Chapter Eleven: Wild Unrest
This chapter title comes from the poem “City of Dreadful Night” by James Thompson. It’s really about taking on the suffering of someone you love. Will wanders about London at night. “He had reached Fleet Street. Temple Bar was visible through the mist in the distance” — Temple Bar is the structure Jem is standing in front of, on the cover of the book.

Chapter Twelve: The Ball
This is somewhat self-explanatory. There is a masquerade ball. And a balcony. And Magnus.

Chapter Thirteen: The Mortal Sword
We finally see the Mortal Sword put to its actual use: extracting the truth from reluctant Shadowhunters. And it is not pretty.

Chapter Fourteen: The Silent City
“Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you?”

Chapter Fifteen: Thousands More
From a poem by Charlotte Mew: There are thousands more; you do not miss a rose.

“Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy.”

Chapter Sixteen: Mortal Rage
In which there are automatons and vengeance and explosions. The title comes from Shakespeare: “And brass eternal slave to mortal rage.”

Chapter Seventeen: In Dreams
There is the famous “in dreams begin responsibilities” but this title is actually from a poem by Matthew Arnold. The chapter from which this deleted scene was taken.

Chapter Eighteen: Until I Die
This chapter title has really freaked people out. So I will be nice and say that it is from a poem by Christopher Brennan (no relation to Sarah Rees):

Then seek not, sweet, the “If” and “Why”
I love you now until I die.

Chapter Nineteen: If Treason Doth Prosper
Betrayals and misunderstandings come thick and fast. And Magnus may have a new boyfriend. The title is from a poem attributed to Sir John Harrington:

“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

Chapter Twenty: The Last Dream
This is the chapter that made me cry! I rarely cry so I felt good about that. The chapter title comes from A Tale of Two Cities.

Chapter Twenty-One: Coals of Fire
I guess if you’re paying a lot of attention you’ll recognize this as part of something Jace quotes in City of Fallen Angels. Endings, beginnings, new characters, and, I promise, not too bad of a cliffhanger.

Cassie just posted this on Twitter, saying she promised the Google Group something special when they hit 5,000 members. So here is a deleted scene from Clockwork Prince, with spoilers cut out.

The darkness came and went in waves that grew ever slower. Tessa was beginning to feel lighter, less like an awful weight was pressing her down. She wondered how much time had passed. It was night in the infirmary, and she could see Will a few beds away from her, a curled figure under the blankets, dark head pillowed on his arm. Brother Enoch had given him a tisane to drink once the [redacted] was cut out of his skin, and he had fallen asleep almost instantly, thank God. The sight of him in that much pain had been more harrowing than she could have imagined.

She was in a clean white nightgown now; someone must have cut away her blood-stiffened clothes and washed her hair before bandaging her — it lay softly over his shoulders, no longer twisted into rat-tails of tangles and drying blood.

‘Tessa,” came a whispered voice. “Tess?”

Only Will calls me that. She opened her eyes, but it was Jem seated on the side of her bed, looking down at her. The moonlight spilling through the high ceilings turned him almost transparent, an ethereal angel, all silver but for the gold chain at his throat.

He smiled. “You’re awake.”

“I’ve been awake here and there.” She coughed. “Enough to know I’m all right besides a crack on the head. A lot of fuss about nothing —” Tessa’s eyes dropped, and she saw that Jem was carrying something in his hands: a thick mug of some liquid that sent up a fragrant steam.

“What’s that?”

“One of Brother Enoch’s tisanes,” said Jem. “It will help you sleep.”

“All I’ve been doing is sleeping!”

“And very amusing it is to watch,” said Jem. “Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?”

“I do not,” she said, with a whispered laugh.

“You do,” he said. “Fortunately, I like rabbits.” He handed her the cup. “Drink just a little,” He said. “It is right for you to sleep. Brother Enoch says to think of the wounds and shocks to your spirit as you would think of wounds and shocks to your body. You must rest the injured part of yourself before you begin to heal.”

Tessa was dubious, but she took a sip of the tisane anyway, and then another. It had a pleasant taste, like cinnamon. Barely had she swallowed the second mouthful when a feeling of exhaustion swept over her. Jem took the cup and she lay back against the pillows, listening to his soft voice telling her a story about a beautiful young woman whose husband had died building the Great Wall of China, and who had cried so much over his loss that she had turned into a silvery fish and swum away across a river. As Tessa drifted off into dreams, she felt his gentle hands take the cup from her and set it down on the bedside table. She wanted to thank him, but she was already asleep.

I’m on Team Jem, so I love it! What do you think?

Cassie just posted this cookie from Clockwork Prince on Twitter. Click here to go to the tweet or read it below. It’s Tessa and Jem.

They slowed finally at the southeastern corner of the church. Watery daylight poured through the rose windows overhead. “I know we are in a hurry to get to the Council meeting,” said Jem. “But I wanted you to see this.” He gestured around them. “Poet’s Corner.”

Tessa had read of the place, of course, where the great poets and writers of England were buried. There was the gray stone tomb of Chaucer, with its canopy, and other familiar names: Edmund Spenser, who had written The Faerie Queen, “Oh, and Milton,” she gasped, “and Coleridge, and Robert Burns, and Shakespeare —”

“He isn’t really buried here,” said Jem, quickly. “It’s just a monument.”

“Oh, I know, but —” She looked at him, and felt herself flush. “I can’t explain it. It’s like being among friends, being among these names. Silly, I know . . .”

“Not silly at all.”

She smiled at him. “How did you know just what I’d want to see?” 

“How could I not?” he said. “When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind’s eye always with a book in your hand.” He looked away from her as he said it, but not before she caught the slight flush on his cheekbones. He was so pale, he could never hide even the least blush, she thought — and was surprised how affectionate the thought was. 

She had become very fond of Jem over the past fortnight; Will had been studiously avoiding her, Charlotte and Henry were caught up in issues of Clave and Council and the running of the Institute —even Jessamine seemed preoccupied. But Jem was always there. He seemed to take his role as her guide to London seriously: they had been to Hyde Park and Kew Gardens, the National Gallery and the British Museum, the Tower of London and Traitor’s Gate. They gone to see the cows being milked in St James Park, the fruit and vegetable sellers in Covent Garden, had watched the boats sailing on the sun-sparked Thames from the Embankment. And as the days went on, Tessa felt herself unfolding slowly out of her quiet, huddled unhappiness over Nate and Will and the loss of her old life, like a flower climbing out of frozen ground. She had even found herself laughing. And she had Jem to thank for it.

“You are a good friend,” she exclaimed, and when, to her surprise, he said nothing to that, she said, “At least, I hope we are good friends. You do think so too, don’t you, Jem?”

He turned to look at her.

Leave your thoughts in the comments!

Cassie just released the placeholder cover for Clockwork Prince. The final cover is scheduled to be released at Book Expo America in May.

The cover’s background shows Temple Bar on Fleet Street, near the Institute. The star of this cover will be Jem according to what Cassie has already told us.

Cassie also included a quote from CP:

“What desperation drove you to me, in the middle of the night, in a rainstorm? What has changed at the Institute? I can only think of one thing…” – Magnus

I don’t know about you, but I totally dig the placeholder covers (if you didn’t notice, we also have them for City of Lost Souls and City of Heavenly Fire!). I can’t wait to see Jem own it! What do you all think about it?

(PS: Just something to think about: By the time this cover is revealed, we all will have read City of Fallen Angels! Rejoice!)

The Children’s Choice Book Awards are taking nominations for the CBC’s 2011 Teen Choice Book of the Year. You go here and scroll all the way to the bottom. Fill in the form with your name and e-mail address and top five teen titles of 2010.

Clockwork Angel is on their list and so are a bunch of other awesome books, but if you want to nominate a book they haven’t listed, you can fill that in, too! For example, my top choice was Clockwork Angel, but my second-favorite book of last year was Anna and the French Kiss, so I did a write in vote for that one.

You have until February 7, 2011 to make your nominations and then they’ll determine which books the five finalists are. They’ll post the top five and open voting for the number one spot. If Clockwork makes the top five, you will definitely be hearing from us here at Mundie Source to make sure that Clockwork Angel is at the top of the list!

Leave a comment telling us what you’re voting for as the top five YA books of 2010!

The cover for the fourth book in the bestselling Mortal Instruments series has been released by Entertainment Weekly. Click here to go to the site and watch the video that goes along with the reveal. Clary and Simon are featured on the cover (confirmed by Cassie herself).

The video’s text reads: “Who will be tempted by darkness? Who will fall in love? Who will find their relationship torn apart? Who will betray everything they believed in? LOVE. BLOOD. BETRAYAL. REVENGE. Cassandra Clare’s internationally bestselling The Mortal Instruments series continues…”

What do you think of the cover? Which characters do you think will be the ones who answer those questions? Answer in the comments!

Here is the excerpt posted on EW: 

Simon glanced toward the window. It was a brisk night, and the wind was blowing leaves across Second Avenue like handfuls of thrown confetti. There was a girl walking down the street, a girl in a tight belted trench coat, with long black hair that flew in the wind. People turned to watch her as she walked past. Simon had looked at girls like that before in the past, idly wondering where they were going, who they were meeting. Not guys like him, he knew that much. 

Except this one was. The bell on the diner’s front door rang as the door opened, and Isabelle Lightwood came in. She smiled when she saw Simon, and came toward him, shrugging off her coat and draping it over the back of the chair before she sat down. Under the coat she was wearing one of what Clary called her “typical Isabelle out- fits”: a tight short velvet dress, fishnet stockings, and boots. There was a knife stuck into the top of her left boot that Simon knew only he could see; still, everyone in the diner was watching as she sat down, flinging her hair back. Whatever she was wearing, Isabelle drew attention like a fireworks display. 

 Beautiful Isabelle Lightwood. When Simon had met her, he’d assumed she’d have no time for a guy like him. He’d turned out to be mostly right. Isabelle liked boys her parents disapproved of, and in her universe that meant Downworlders—faeries, werewolves, and vamps. That they’d been dating regularly for the past month or two amazed him, even if their relationship was limited mostly to infrequent meetings like this one. And even if he couldn’t help but wonder, if he’d never been changed into a vampire, if his whole life hadn’t been altered in that moment, would they be dating at all?

Cassie also posted a short snippet from Clockwork Prince on Twitter last night for my birthday, so here’s that. It’s Jem, speaking to Will:

“Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?”

On her LiveJournal, Cassie posted these close-up images of the COFA cover to show Clary’s green eyes and the Morgenstern ring around her neck.

Cassie just posted the tour dates for her Clockwork Angel release tour on her LiveJournal. Here they are:

August 31: PRINCETON, NJ
Tuesday, August 31st
7:00PM
Barnes & Noble
3535 US Route 1
Princeton, NJ 08540

September 1st: EXTON, PA
5:00PM
Borders
298 Exton Square Mall
Exton, PA 19341

September 2nd: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Anderson’s Book Shop
123 W. Jefferson
Naperville, IL 60540

September 3rd: ST LOUIS, MO.
7:00PM
ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY
1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63131
*Books sold by Puddnhead Books

September 5th: ATLANTA, GA
Decatur Book Festival Presentation & Signing /Time and info to come

http://www.decaturbookfestival.com/2010/index.php

The tour then continues with the Smart Chicks Kick It Tour. Those dates are as follows:

September 13th: AUSTIN, TX
Tour launches at Book People in Austin, Texas w Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Holly Black, Rachel Caine , & Cassandra Clare
7:00 pm
BOOK PEOPLE BOOKSTORE
603 North Lamar Boulevard
Austin, TX 78703
(512) 472-5050

September 13th: The Woodlands, TX
September 14th—B&N The Woodlands in Houston, TX w Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, & Rachel Vincent. 7:00 pm B&N, THE WOODLANDS 1201 Lake Woodlands Drive The Woodlands, TX 77380

September 15th: HOUSTON, TX
September 15th—Blue Willow in Houston, TX w Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Holly Black, Sarah Rees Brennan, & Cassandra Clare 7:00 pm Remote location details to come Off site event hosted by: BLUE WILLOW

September 16th: JACKSON, MS
September 16th—Lemuria Book, Jackson, MS w Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, & Sarah Rees Brennan 6:00 pm LEMURIA BOOKS 202 Banner Hall 4465 I-55 North Jackson, MS 39206

Also, if you don’t already know, she will be making a special announcement (not movie news) at the August 4th signing in NYC, and I will be in attendance. I will be streaming the event live here on BlogTV. You can follow my channel to get a reminder about the event before it starts. The event itself starts at 7 PM ET, and I will start the broadcast at 6:45, just to make sure that everything is in working order. I’m confident that it will work this time, since the signing is at Barnes and Noble and not in a park.

Even if you go to the UStream chat beforehand at 5PM, the BlogTV will cover things that don’t get covered on UStream, since the live Q&A from the audience will probably be quite different from the one on the chat. Hope to see a lot of you there!