3) What is City of Fallen Angels about? When will it be released?
City of Fallen Angels takes place after the events of City of Glass. It splits its focus between Jace and Clary and Clary's best friend, Simon, and how he adjusts to life as a vampire, but it's still an ensemble-cast story, and all the characters from the Mortal Instruments series appear in it: Jace, Isabelle, Alec, Magnus, Luke, Jocelyn, Maia, and many more. (It even helps to have read The Clockwork Angel before you read CoFA, because some of the characters from the ID series do show up in it. However, it isn't required.) City of Fallen Angels takes place several months after the events of City of Glass. In it, a mysterious someone's killing the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine's Circle and displaying their bodies around New York City in a manner designed to provoke hostility between Downworlders and Shadowhunters, leaving tensions running high in the city and disrupting Clary's plan to lead as normal a life as she can — training to be a Shadowhunter, and pursuing her relationship with Jace. As Jace and Clary delve into the issue of the murdered Shadowhunters, they discover a mystery that has deeply personal consequences for them — consequences that may strengthen their relationship, or rip it apart forever. Meanwhile, internecine warfare among vampires is tearing the Downworld community apart, and only Simon — the Daylighter who everyone wants on their side — can decide the outcome; too bad he wants nothing to do with Downworld politics. Love, blood, betrayal and revenge: the stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels.
***The cover art for this book has not yet been released.
City of Fallen Angelsis set to be released in late March/early April, 2011.h) Is there a place I can find teasers and/or cookies for City of Fallen Angels? I usually start posting excerpts of upcoming books on the websiteabout eight months before publication. In the case of City of Fallen Angels, it's going to be a little different: the American paperback of City of Glass will be released on August 3, 2010, and it will contain a full chapter of City of Fallen Angels in it, as well as a full chapter of Clockwork Angel, the first book in the Mortal Instruments prequel series The Infernal Devices, which is going to be released August 31, 2010. (Since there is no special paperback release date in the UK/Aus/NZ, Clockwork Angel, when released there, will contain the full chapter of City of Fallen Angels.)