Check out Who is Narrating the Next BANE CHRONICLES Installment

Jordan Gavaris of Orphan Black has been selected to read What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything: (And Who You're Not Officially Dating Anyway) (also known as the eighth installment of The Bane Chronicles). Cassandra Clare's words on Jordan Gavaris:

Hello! Cute boy got your attention? I am zipping by in the middle of editing to announce that Jordan Gavaris of Orphan Black will be reading the next of the Bane Chronicles. If you haven’t seen Orphan Black, Jordan’s character Felix is one of the most fantastic things about an already fantastic show with amazing performances, and we’re so happy to have Jordan reading what might be the funniest of the Bane Chronicles installments: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything. In which Magnus angsts, calls Ragnor, and seeks advice from a tentacled demon about his love life.
Look out for an interview where I chat with Jordan about reading the Bane Chronicles and also angle for Orphan Black spoilers. (If you aren’t watching it, you should be! Sarah RB turned me onto it and I am grateful enough to forgive her for the stunt she pulled in Italy with the bat.)
Welcome, Jordan. :)

Nov. 3: New BANE CHRONICLES Snippet from Cassandra Clare

The next installment for The Bane Chronicles will be out in about a week! Check out this long snippet from What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything: (And Who You're Not Officially Dating Anyways).

“How have you been keeping? You know, since the last time you summoned me,” said Elyaas, the demon.
“What?” Magnus asked.
“You don’t remember me?” said the tentacle demon.
“I summon a lot of demons,” Magnus said weakly.
There was a long pause. Magnus stared into the bottom of his coffee cup and desperately willed more coffee to appear. This was something a lot of mundanes did too, but Magnus had one up on those suckers. His mug did slowly fill again, until it was brimming with rich dark liquid. He sipped and looked at Elyaas, who was shifting uncomfortably from tentacle to tentacle.
“Well,” said Elyaas. “This is awkward.”
“It’s nothing personal,” said Magnus.
“Maybe if I jogged your memory,” Elyaas suggested helpfully. “You summoned me when you were searching for a demon who cursed a Shadowhunter? Bill Herondale?”
“Will Herondale,” said Magnus.
Elyaas snapped his tentacles as if they were fingers. “I knew it was something like that.”
“You know,” Magnus said, enlightened, “I think I do remember. I’m sorry about that. I realized right away that you weren’t the demon I was looking for. You looked kind of blue in one of the drawings, but obviously you are not blue, and I was wasting your time. You were pretty understanding about it.”
“Think nothing of it.” Elyaas waved a tentacle. “These things happen. And I can look blue. You know, in the right light.”
“Lighting’s important, it’s true,” said Magnus.
“So whatever happened with Bill Herondale and that curse a blue demon put on him?” The cecaelia demon’s interest seemed genuine.
“Will Herondale,” Magnus said again. “It’s actually rather a long story.”
“You know, sometimes we demons pretend we’re cursing people and we don’t really do it,” said Elyaas chattily. “Like, just for kicks? It’s kind of a thing with us. Did you know that?”
“You could have mentioned it a century or two ago,” Magnus observed frostily.
Elyaas shook his head, smiling a slime-bedecked smile. “The old pretend-to-curse. It’s a classic. Very funny.” He appeared to notice Magnus’s unimpressed expression for the first time. “Not from your perspective, of course.”
“It wasn’t funny for Bill Herondale!” said Magnus. “Oh, damn it. Now you’ve got me doing it.”

Cassandra Clare also revealed that they have some Bane Chronicles narrator news that she "thinks you will be pleased" about.

Cover Reveal: THE FALL OF HOTEL DUMORT -the 7th installment of 'The Bane Chronicles'

Under one week until the next installment for The Bane Chronicles comes out! Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life has unveiled the official cover for The Fall of Hotel Dumort:

The Fall of Hotel Dumort will be available in ebook format on Oct. 15.

Here is the synopsis from Amazon:

Magnus Bane watches the once-glamorous Hotel Dumort become something else altogether in 1970s New York City. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles.Fifty years after the Jazz Age rise of the Hotel Dumort, immortal warlock Magnus Bane knows the Manhattan landmark is on the decline. The once-beautiful Hotel Dumort has fallen into a decayed thing, a ruin, as dead as a place can be. But the vampires don’t mind…

Sept. 13: New BANE CHRONICLES Snippet from the Sixth Installment, SAVING RAPHAEL SANTIAGO

Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan are both so excited in getting Michael Trevino to read the next installment of The Bane Chronicles, that Cassandra Clare has released a new snippet for Saving Raphael Santiago. Check it out:

Raphael, Magnus saw with an ever-growing sense of unease, was looking at that blazingly bright hole in the ceiling.

“They’re all dead,” Raphael repeated, slowly. “And I am dead, too.”

Pre-order The Bane Chronicles: Saving Raphael Santiago on Amazon.

Cover Reveal: 'The Bane Chronicles: SAVING RAPHAEL SANTIAGO'

Here is the next cover for The Bane Chronicles revealed by Entertainment Weekly:

What do you think of the rune on the cover? Looks pretty mysterious right?
This sixth installment of The Bane Chronicles will be available on September, 17th. You can pre-order the ebook on:


Description of the book:

A Manhattan teen—Raphael Santiago—is missing, and Magnus Bane must track him down before it’s too late. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles.In 1950s New York City, a distraught mother hires Magnus Bane to find her missing son, Raphael. But even if he can be found, is Raphael beyond saving?
This standalone e-only short story illuminates the life of the enigmatic Magnus Bane, whose alluring personality populates the pages of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices. This story in The Bane Chronicles, Saving Raphael Santiago, is written by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan.

Listen to an Excerpt from MIDNIGHT HEIR + Future Narration by Stephen Lunsford

MTV has an excerpt of David Oyelowo reading the fourth installment of The Bane Chronicles. Cassandra Clare remarks about the hot guys reading The Bane Chronicles:

I have to say that Maureen and Sarah and I are all very puzzled as to how the Bane Chronicles turned out to be a Roster of Hot Men Reading, but we’re very pleased about it! At the link, you can hear David Oyelowo (just off a fantastic performance in ‘The Butler’, well hello there)” and find out that:
'Teen Wolf' actor Stephen Lunsford will read 'Rise of the Hotel Dumort.'

Unfortunately this video is only available in the US, but you can order the ebook on Amazon.com

I'm so excited to announce I will be narrating Cassandra Clare (The Mortal Instruments) new audio book of The Bane Chronicles tomorrow!
— Stephen Lunsford (@Lunsfuhd) August 27, 2013

Watch the video on MTV.com

Cover Reveal: 'The Bane Chronicles: THE RISE OF HOTEL DUMORT'

Entertainment Weekly has revealed the fifth installment of The Bane Chronicles. You can pre-order The Rise of Hotel Dumort on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca. It will be released as an ebook on August 20.

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Read 'THE BANE CHRONICLES: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN PERU' For Free from Pulse It

Pulse It is giving Magnus Bane fans a chance to read the first ebook from The Bane Chronicles (What Really Happened in Peru) for free.

Sign up to become a PulseIt member and read the book on their site, it's as easy as that!

About The Bane Chronicles: What Really Happened in Peru:

Fans of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices know that Magnus Bane is banned from Peru—and now they can find out why. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles.
There are good reasons Peru is off-limits to Magnus Bane. Follow Magnus’s Peruvian escapades as he drags his fellow warlocks Ragnor Fell and Catarina Loss into trouble, learns several instruments (which he plays shockingly), dances (which he does shockingly), and disgraces his host nation by doing something unspeakable to the Nazca Lines.
This standalone e-only short story illuminates the life of the enigmatic Magnus Bane, whose alluring personality populates the pages of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices. This story in The Bane Chronicles, What Really Happened in Peru, is written by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan.

Cover Reveal: 'The Bane Chronicles: THE MIDNIGHT HEIR' from EW

Entertainment Weekly reveals another Bane Chronicles cover -The Midnight Heir.

The Midnight Heir is the fourth book to The Bane Chronicles written by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, or Maureen Johnson. The ebook will be available on July 16th.

Pre-order the ebook now:

Cover Reveal: The Third Book to THE BANE CHRONICLES from Entertainment Weekly

With only 1 week until the third book to The Bane Chronicles, Entertainment Weekly reveals the cover to Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale.

Vampire, Scones, and Edmund Herondale will be available for purchase Tues. June, 18.
Synopsis from Amazon:

Magnus Bane leverages his alliances with Downworlders and Shadowhunters on a venture to Victorian London. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles.
When immortal warlock Magnus Bane attends preliminary peace talks between the Shadowhunters and the Downworlders in Victorian London, he is charmed by two very different people: the vampire Camille Belcourt and the young Shadowhunter, Edmund Herondale. Will winning hearts mean choosing sides?

This standalone e-only short story illuminates the life of the enigmatic Magnus Bane, whose alluring personality populates the pages of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices. This story in The Bane Chronicles, Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale, is written by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan.

Pre-order on now!

George Blagden Talks About Reading 'The Bane Chronicles: The Runaway Queen'

Today, The Bane Chronicles: Runaway Queen was released in eBook format -which you can buy on Amazon.com. For the audio book, George Blagden from Les Miserables is narrating.

He tells MTV

"The recording process, quite honestly, has been terrifying in amongst being incredibly rewarding. It's kind of amazing that an author gets to let you take their work and give voice to these characters that they've created. You have a feeling of immense responsibility and you don't want to get it wrong."

Cover Reveal: 'The Bane Chronicles: The Runaway Queen'

With only 5 days until the release, of the second installment of The Bane Chronicles, check out the new and official cover for The Runaway Queen.

The Runaway Queen will be available on May 21. Go pre-order your copy on Amazon.com ($4.64 USD) or Amazon.ca ($3.99).

'The Bane Chronicles: Runaway Queen' Sneak-Peek From the Shadowhunter App

In February, the Shadowhunter App gave us the first chapter of The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess. This time, the Shadowhunter App has an exclusive sneak-peek to The Bane Chronicles: Runaway Queen.

Download the Shadowhunter App for: Andriod or Apple users.
Here's a snippet from the preview:

There was a smell to Paris in the summer mornings that Magnus enjoyed. This was surprising, because on summer mornings Paris smelled of cheese and that sat in in the sun all day and fish and the less desirable parts of fish. It smelled of people and all the things that people produce (this does not refer to art or culture, but to the baser things that were dumped out of windows in buckets). But these were punctuated by other odors, and the odors would shift rapidly from street to street, or building to building That heady whiff of a bakery might be followed by an unexpected flush of gardenias in a garden, which gave way to the iron-rich pong of slaughterhouse.

The Runaway Queen will be available for ebook purchase on May 21. Pre-order a copy on Amazon.com ($4.64 USD)

George Blagden Records 'The Bane Chronicles: Runaway Queen'

George Blagden from Les Miserables is the narrator for The Bane Chronicles: Runaway Queen. Today, he shared that he just finished recording.

Spent the afternoon with a guy called Magnus Bane. Heard of him?
— George Blagden (@gblagden) May 2, 2013

Thank you for letting me into your world @cassieclareI had so much fun with #TheBaneChronicles earlier today! twitter.com/gblagden/statu…
— George Blagden (@gblagden) May 2, 2013

Runaway Queen  will be available on May 21.
Buy The Runaway Queen on Amazon.com.

Narration for 'The Bane Chronicles: Runaway Queen' Will be by George Blagden

George Blagden -who you might recognize from Les Misérables as Grantaire- will be narrating the next Bane Chronicles installment.
Hollywoodcrush tells us:

What's got us so hot, bothered and ready to get busy with a bayonet? It's the news that actor George Blagden, who played student revolutionary Grantaire in "Les Miserables" last year, will be reading "The Runaway Queen" directly into our quivering little ears as the series' latest narrator.

2 New Titles and 1 New Installment for 'The Bane Chronicles'

The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles Part #4)

A new short story to The Bane Chronicles:

In Edwardian London, Magnus Bane discovers old friends and new enemies—including the son of his former comrade Will Herondale. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles.

Magnus thought he would never return to London, but he is lured by a handsome offer from Tatiana Blackthorn, whose plans—involving her beautiful young ward—are far more sinister than Magnus even suspects. In London at the turn of the century, Magnus finds old friends, and meets a very surprising young man . . . the sixteen-year-old James Herondale.

Pre-order on Amazon.com

The Rise of the Hotel Dumort has been changed to The Rise and Fall of the Hotel Dumort (The Bane Chronicles Part #5)

So instead of having The Rise of Hotel Dumort (The Bane Chronicles Part #4) and then The Fall of Hotel Dumort (The Bane Chronicles Part #5). They have combined the two.

EW's interview with Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson and Sarah Rees Brennan for 'The Bane Chronicles'

We have a new official cover for the first installment of The Bane Chronicles and now, EW also has an interview with the fabulous authors of The Bane Chronicles, Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Rees Brennan!

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: First thing’s first: How did you come up with the idea for The Bane Chronicles?
MAUREEN JOHNSON: We always have jokes about each other’s books, and I have my designs on several of Cassie’s characters. It started over a long series of jokes like about what we would do.
SARAH REES BRENNAN: I came in a little later. Maureen and Cassie were chatting about several different adventures that characters could have had. Then we were all in France together when we started telling Magnus stories to each other.
CASSANDRA CLARE: We’d all rented this house [in France], and it had one really big fancy room that we couldn’t possibly use. We were sort of gingerly sitting in there, and then we started making jokes about Magnus and what he would think of the room. Maureen had one about Magnus during the French Revolution. Sarah had her theories about why Magnus was really banned from Peru, and it sort of expanded. I said, “It’s really a shame that we couldn’t write these as a series of ongoing stories, because it’s not really a novel format. It’s more of a series of interconnected short stories.” That was when we first started talking about it seriously.Why did you decide on 10 installments?
CLARE: We had the realization that the best home for a project like this was probably the Internet because it allows for extremely non-traditional publishing formats. Then we started to buckle down and talk about what the stories would be and how they would be written. Since there’s three of us and we’re writing each story — Maureen’s writing half, Sarah’s writing half, I’m writing half along — it seemed fair to split them five and five.

Cover Reveal for 'The Bane Chronicles: What Really Happened in Peru'

With only 5 more days to go, the cover for The Bane Chronicles: What Really Happened in Peru is revealed!

Summary from Goodreads:
Fans of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices know that Magnus Bane is banned from Peru—and now they can find out why. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles.

Pre-order all 'The Bane Chronicles' Installments in One ebook

Place holder cover-art for What Really Happened in Peru

The Bane Chronicles are all about the High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane. There are 10 issues in total that are written by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and/or Molly Johnson. One issue will be released each month. The first issue called What Really Happened in Peru will be released next week

Jesse Williams narrating 'The Bane Chronicles: What Really Happened in Peru'

Place holder cover

Hollywoodcrush revealed that Jesse Williams (from Sister of the Traveling Pants 2) will be narrating the first installment of The Bane Chronicles for the audio book. The first installment is written by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan. What Really Happened in Peru will be released on April 16th.

For a list of all the installments, visit here.

From the article:

Perhaps you've heard of the upcoming "Bane Chronicles," a short-story cycle centered around the mysterious High Warlock of Brooklyn, penned by "The Mortal Instruments" writer Cassandra Clare in collaboration with author friends Maureen Johnson and Sarah Rees Brennan. The first installment, "What Really Happened In Peru," debuts in April, and Hollywood Crush has the distinct pleasure of announcing the identity of the corresponding audiobook's narrator. Who is none other than...

"Grey's Anatomy" actor Jesse Williams!