Blackstairs

i miss julian SO much and fear for his reaction to dru being kidnapped and ty leaving the scholomance to go off on this dangerous mission with the first heir 😭 our man is going to be STRESSED thinking he’s lost 3/4 of his kids, will we hear from him and emma in TLKOF and see his reaction to finding out what dru and ty are up to? (i wouldn’t be surprised if he tried to burn down the world to get dru back he’s THE julian blackthorn)

thank you and so so insanely excited to read the book, less than 6 months left!!!

Poor Julian! Yes, it's true Dru and Ty are older than they were last time we saw them with Julian, but I think Julian will continue to wish to protect them. I think he will wish to protect them on into their adulthood, and when he is ninety-six and Dru is ninety-two or whatever, he will continue to regard her as his baby sister, and Ty as his baby brother. (Who is ninety-three.)

Meanwhile, back at the Scholomance:

“You told us your final project would be about solving crimes using magic. But this”—Catarina tapped the stack of paper in front of her—“seems to be about the alternate dimension Thule. It includes a section on how one might possibly get there—” 

“That part is theoretical,” said Ty. 

“All right,” Catarina said. “But . . .

yall don’t know what you’re doing to me.

I definitely think this dream has something to do with Lucifer being the eventual villain and the impacts it’ll have on the shadowhunter world. HOWEVER: this leads the question: how? And why is Kit saying it’s Ty fault.

A really old shadowhunter theory is that Livvy is the one who will get possessed by Lucifer and honestly I’ve always supported that and I think it’s plausible. Out of any character, Livvy is probably the easiest to posses.

Okay I think possess might not be the right word since she’s a ghost? But I think Lucifer being able to control Livvy would be a really interesting concept and I think it could be likely, throughout GOTSM we see that Livvy has a very increasing fragile mind set, we even see her talk about possibly possessing Mina! Even so, we know that Livvy DOES in fact have a Ty to the living world as well (Ty, since he messed the spell up). Thisss would 100% let Lucifer do stuff behind the scenes and easily mess with the TWP cast.

This also leads back to Kit saying it’s “his fault” in the dream like sequence, as it quite literally is Ty’s fault if he does posses Livvy (since ya know he brought her back).

"I fear that day may be far off," Kieran said.

"I feel it is closer than we might think,” said Mark. "But in the meantime, we will make the best of what we have together."

It's no coincidence that they talk about someone uniting and ruling over the fairy lands when the next book is called "The Last King of Faerie"

Chapter 31, QOAAD

“Kit.” The voice sounded as if it was coming from very far away. Not Ty’s voice, either. Kit felt as if ice had been injected into his veins, but he forced himself to roll over onto his back.

A birthday snippet from LKOF

I’m going to go outside the shadowhunter questions and ask..

When will the next book in The Chronicles of Castellane be released?

The way you ended Ragpicker King broke me. I was a mess still am a mess.

Such a beautiful amazing series and I can’t wait for more!

Oh dear! I am so sorry. And thanks for your kind words. Ragpicker King was a big complex tale and I'm still a little exhausted from it! Very fun though and I'm excited to go forward with a lot of the new things we've found out about the characters.

Right now the publishing plan is

Last King of Faerie (this year)

Last Prince of Hell

Castellane #3 (The Bone Conjurors)

Is this something we knew already? Is this last shadowhunter to remain on earth? What happened to others? Is everyone human now? Did we lose the mortal cup and we have the last person to turn into a shadowhunter?

Bred in the Bone is sad, but not because anything terrible happens to Julian or Emma. It is more sad in the philosophical sense of reminding us that nothing is permanent, that as Stephen King once titled a story, "All that you love will be carried away." Mortality, human nature, love, you know. The little stuff.

Edited in October 2024: Cassie has compiled a lot of the bonus content in different PDFs, you can find them here, but please be aware that you have to be a newsletter subscriber to have access to these files.

This list is still a WIP, but I’m doing my best to update everything! Since some content is exclusive and even Cassie hasn’t shared it yet, I also won’t share it here. I’ve still listed it and I’m sure you’ll find it elsewhere. :)

The Mortal Instruments

City of Bones (27 March 2007)

Not For Humans (crossover between Holly Black’s Modern Faerie Tale series and The Shadowhunter Chronicles, set before City of Bones)

Awake (Jace meets Clary for the first time from Isabelle’s POV): part of We Jace You A Clary Christmas (PDF)

Original prologue from Jace’s POV

Magnus’s Vow

Kissed: Magnus and Alec’s First Kiss

When Midnight Comes: Jace’s point of view of his first kiss with Clary: Part of We Jace You A Clary Christmas (PDF)

Official Clave files (City of Bones 10th anniversary edition): teaser

City of Ashes (25 March 2008)

Because It Is Bitter: The Seelie Court kiss from Jace’s POV: Part of We Jace You A Clary Christmas (PDF)

Deleted scene: Isabelle defends Jace

Deleted scene: Magnus explains the faerie world

City of Glass (24 March 2009)

Read the original first chapter of City of Glass

Chapter 2: The Demon Towers of Alicante*

Jace kisses Alec*

Chapter 7: Where Angels fear to tread*

Chapter 9: This guilty Blood*

Chapter 13: Where There Is Sorrow*

Manor scene: Jace’s POV: Part of We Jace You A Clary Christmas (PDF)

Jace’s letter to Clary

Chapter 20: Weighed in the Balance*

Jocelyn’s story

* Cut, deleted or changed

City of Fallen Angels (5 April 2011)

A story told in postcards

City of Lost Souls (8 May 2012)

A Question of Power

The Act of Falling

A Dark Transformation: Becoming Sebastian

Stephen’s letter to Jace

Deleted Malec scene

Deleted Jace scene

Deleted or cut scenes (including the cut DSCS)

City of Heavenly Fire (27 May 2014)

Inside jacket artwork

Uncut Clary and Jace cave scene

Deleted scene/comic: Magnus sends Emma and the Blackthorns back to Los Angeles

Comic strip scene “The Wedding” (exclusive to the UK edition)

Cut scene: Jonathan’s death

Letter from Faerie to Arthur Blackthorn

The Infernal Devices: Bonus content inside Life is a Book (PDF)

Clockwork Angel (31 August 2010)

On the Bridge: Will and Jem before Clockwork Angel: Part of Life is a Book (PDF)

Of Loss: Will’s perspective on his kiss with Tessa: Part of Life is a Book (PDF)

Why Will Hates Ducks: Part of Life is a Book (PDF)

Deleted scenes (Jem & Tessa on Blackfriars Bridge, Nate & Tessa, Will & Tessa): Part of Life is a Book (PDF)

Tessa’s letter to Nate (exclusive to Illumicrate’s Clockwork Angel: 10th Anniversary Edition): Part of Life is a Book (PDF)

Clockwork Prince (6 December 2012)

Will’s letter to his parents: Part of Life is a Book (PDF)

Burning Bright: Jem’s meeting with Tessa from his viewpoint: Part of Life is a Book (PDF)

Will’s love letter to Tessa (can also be read in Clockwork Princess)

An Offering of Moonlight: Jem’s Perspective on “Fierce Midnight”: Part of Life is a Book (PDF)

Deleted scenes: The Whole of It (Will tells Jem about his curse), Tessa and Jem: Part of Life is a Book (PDF)

Clockwork Princess (19 March 2013)

Cut scene: Will and Jem

‘Will’s love letter to Tessa’

Carstairs, Herondale and Lightwood family tree (1831-2007), proceed with caution, because SPOILER this family tree is not correct

After the Bridge (Tessa & Jem with art by Cassandra Jean –> City of Heavenly Fire spoilers)

Will and Tessa comic from Cassandra Jean and Cassie

The Dark Artifices

Set before the books

Stars to Burn (Mark & Kieran, with art)

Lady Midnight (8 March 2016)

A Long Conversation (short story in some first editions of Lady Midnight, now an ebook): Part of We Jace You A Clary Christmas (PDF)

Cut scene: Julian

Unedited beach scene

Deleted scene: Emma and Cameron

Deleted scene: Emma, the Blackthorns and the Ashdowns

Deleted scene: Emma and the Blackthorns

Deleted scene: Emma, Clary and Church

Lord of Shadows (23 May 2017)

Cottage scene (Emma & Julian, with art)

Our Waking Souls (canon online short story about Clary & Jace, with art)

Deleted Jemma scene (exclusive to UK 5th anniversary edition)

Queen of Air and Darkness (4 December 2018)

Deleted prologue: pending

Cut Blackstairs scene (unedited)

Deleted Jemma scene

A Love That Never Tires (short story in some first editions of Queen of Air and Darkness, sequel to A Long Conversation): Part of We Jace You A Clary Christmas (PDF)

Kit’s letter to Jace (exclusive to UK 5th anniversary edition): teaser

The Eldest Curses

The Red Scrolls of Magic (9 April 2019)

Magnus’s letter to Alec (from City of Heavenly Fire, formerly exclusive content for Illumicrate & Good Choice Reading)

How Magnus met Catarina: Now a flashback scene in The Lost Book of the White

Deleted snippet (back then the book titles were different)

The Lost Book of The White (1 September 2020)

Edited scene from beginning of the book

In Dreams Begin (Jem and Tessa’s wedding)

Simon’s graduation party (exclusive to Waterstones, deleted scene): A Tale of Brunch (PDF)

The Last Hours

Set before the books

Chain of Gold Extra Content (flash fiction): Bonus content inside The Penultimate Hours (PDF)

The Devil Tavern

Days Past: Lucie and Cordelia

Days Past: Christopher

Cirenworth Hall

The City of Bones

Lucie and Ghosts

A Lightwood Christmas Carol, Part 1

A Lightwood Christmas Carol, Part 2

The Anniversary Party, Part 1

The Anniversary Party, Part 2

Chain of Gold (3 March 2020)

Deleted scene: Matthew

Wedding Invitation (exclusive to Good Choice Reading): Part of Life is a Book (PDF)

Fairy Tale of London: part of Life is a Book (PDF) and also Fairy Tale of London (PDF). You can see artwork from the short story here.

Lucie’s letter to Cordelia (exclusive to LitJoy Crate)

Ragnor’s letter to Magnus (exclusive to Waterstones rune edition)

The Whispering Room from James’s POV with art by Cassandra Jean

Chain of Iron (2 March 2021)

One Must Always Be Careful of Books (exclusive to first editions)

Fever (exclusive to Waterstones )

Matthew’s letter to James (exclusive to LitJoy Crate)

Chain of Thorns (31 January 2023)

Aught But Death (Lucie and Cordelia become parabatai): Aught But Death (PDF)

Matthew writes to James (exclusive to Waterstones)

Jesse writes to Lucie (exclusive to LitJoy Crate)

Deleted snippets: pending

Unidentified snippets

WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS GORGEOUS ART FROM THE NEWSLETTER!!!

The fact that conor couldn't let kel to be punished even if he might have done everything they accused him of because he loves him

The fact that kel thought that conor was going to kill him and he never resisted

And he fell thinking conor wanted him dead

The fact that conor gave the amulet to kel to be safe always when he is in grave danger himself

Ragpicker King Spoilers below!

It took me a while to get that Andreyan was the Maharam’s son. After his fascination with the Ashkar and Magic when we heard the story of how Maharam exiled his son, I figured it had to be him.