A bit about the author

Here is a little bit of information about Cassandra Clare from her form her blog

“Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Teheran, Iran and spent much of her childhood traveling the world with her family…. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old. Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books … She spent her high school years in Los Angeles and After college,she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids where she reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe (2010, http://www.cassandraclare.com/cms/bio)”

“She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favourite city. She turned to writing fantasy fiction full time in 2006….(2010, http://www.cassandraclare.com/cms/bio)”

Picture that were under copyright

this site sold custem made fan t shirts
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/mortal+instruments+tshirts


this is the site shows jewelry made by Viviane Hebel
http://www.etsy.com/shop/hebelmet

Fan T-shirts

Fan t Shirts

What mercandice is coming out in

Until recent years it was unusual to see anyone wear an item of clothing that had a slogan or some sort of relevance to a “main stream” book. The sudden “trend” became world known in 2008/9 when the first Twilight movie was made, female fans wore T-shirts with there proffered male lead character, with the slogans “Team Edward or Team Jacob”.

Since then fans have printed and sold clothing with book references from serious to making a pun at a character. Mortal Instruments is no exception.

Cassandra Clare has announced on her official website that a graphic novel depiction of the first book in the Immortal Interments published by Th3rt World Publishing. And only recently while I have been writing this blog, it has been announced that the City of Bones is in the process of being written into a movie script.

Here are some pictures from the Internet that show the extent of what the franchise has become since the first book in 2007. The website Zazzle.co.uk had some really good example of shirt designs that people could buy, and jewelry by designer Viviane Hebel has some beautiful jewelry work that was inspired by The Mortal Insterment series; but both sites prohibited coping the display pictures

 Instead the pictures are form Cassandra Clare and Holy Black’s book tour of Canada in 2009 form her Live Journal

What The Internet Has Done To The Fans

Since the launch of YouTube and other social networking sites, fans of any subject have created blogs and videos of what should happen, their favourite characters or pairings, voicing their opinions and just making a general tribute.

One of the most famous fan video's on the Internet would have to be "LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE".

The fans of Mortal Instruments have posted videos of their dream cast of the main characters in the hope that the series is made into a movie on YouTube.
fan made movie trailer

What Is It All a About?

The books are about Clary Fray, a topical teenage girl living in New York; going to school, hanging out with friends in the city's club scene. During one night of clubbing, Clary witness a murder.

This was is when things start to get interesting, Clary realise that this aren't right when the body evaporates into a puff of smoke, and that the people who have committed the murder have a valued reason for doing. They are Shadowhunters, people that hunt and take care of all the nasty thing that lerk in the shadows.

Clary joins the shadowhunters in order to find out what happened to her mother, due to her sudden disappearance after the events at the club.

Site Used

This is the rss feed for the blog

Sytation:
Cassandra Clare,2010,Cassandra Clare's Blog,
Viewed on  29th of September 2010
 http://cassandraclare.livejournal.com/

This is the rss feed for the video

Sytation
 traube7 , 2009, YouTube
Viewed on 7th of October 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ian_VFZXq2c

Zazzle Inc, 2000-2010, Zazzle.co.uk
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/mortal+instruments+tshirts
viewed 12th October, 2010

Cassandra Clare, 2010, Cassandra Clare’s Blog
http://cassandraclare.livejournal.com/31285.html
viewed 22nd October

Etsy Inc, 2010, hebelmet The Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices Jewelry
http://www.etsy.com/shop/hebelmet
viewed 23rd October, 2010

Cassandra Clare, 2010, Cassandra Clare’s Blog
http://www.cassandraclare.com/cms/bio
viewed 22nd October

unknown author, 2010, Scrib
http://www.scribd.com/
viewed 24th October

The written work of Cassandra Clare

I have recently finished the first three books in the Mortal Instruments Series,
made me decide that author Cassandra Clare and her work was worthy of being my topic choice for this assignment.

Hope you are ready to step into the twisted world of the Mortal Instruments and shadow hunters.