BEST. THING. EVER.

[windemere]

I am not kidding. Scholastic has just announced a joint book deal between Cassie Clare and Holly Black for a 5-book series about a teenage boy (Callum Hunt...best name ever) and magicians. This is only topped by the even more awesome news of the books - the first to be released in 2014 - to be turned into movies! I'm only a wee bit jealous of that sort of authorial power. But the series will be amazing, of course! The next Harry Potter? Just in time to get the next young generation of boys reading again...!

This makes me even more excited about the Mortal Instruments movie(s). Can't wait. Also, I really really hope we get the Infernal Devices as movies too. Because Victorian London AND Shadowhunters? There is NOTHING better in the universe.

I is a happy fangirl today.

Also, there might have been a good day too. Teeth and eyes are both healthy and I didn't have to pay for either! On a slightly less happy note, having spent the day in the town I grew up in, I don't recognise ANY OF IT. Seriously, even the schools have been rebuilt. Not to mention the houses. The shops. Every road that had empty land on it. So long Oakville, you are the centre for hubris and greed now. I like you even less now.

Comments

[zaftig46.livejournal.com]

Wait wait wait, I seem to recall back in the deep dark days of the HP fandom there being some kind of scandal involving Cassie Clare?

Ahh yes, I knew the internet wouldn't let me down! http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Plagiarism_and_All_That
Good old gehayi...

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

Yep, that would be THAT Cassie Clare (and that Holly Black, for that matter). Cassie started writting an originally series a few years ago, which is now on book 5, and a prequel series (now on book 2) that are amazing to read. Topped the New York Times best seller list hands down. I love the world she created and really enjoy reading her non-Harry Potter stuff (which occasionally rings of her Draco Trilogy, which was also brilliant). She's an inspiration to all of us that started in fandom and hope to one day publish, and I LOVE that I get Christmas cards from her every single year. It makes me smile.

You should Read Them.

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

Also, that fan wank is still the Best One in History. It's also the reason I bailed on the HP fandom soon after, because damn was there a lot of yelling. I don't support plagiarism, but I also don't support the infighting that followed the whole mess.