It has been announced that 2 of the stories from the Kickstarter will be getting traditionally published in the UK. (If you are not in the UK, you may still be able to get it shipped to you from one of the retailers such as Waterstones.)

Secrets of Blackthorn Hall will be released on March 17, 2026

A Sea Change (the Matthew novella from Careful of Books) will follow as a standalone on April 28th.

Happy reading!

~CJ

P.S. There will be no new spoiler policy when these release so no further announcements will be made regarding these.

Its Alec Lightwood's birthday today!! Happy birthday to the Shadowhunter consul!! He'd be 36 in modern day.

Better in Black has begun shipping out to Kickstarter backers. This means it is time to discuss the spoiler policy:

• Editing: As it is being released for the masses in just a few short months, updating the wiki with information from the book is not allowed for the time being. Edits will be allowed starting 1 week after the retail release (on December 9th) with spoiler coding for the following 2 months.

• For discussion here: you are free to discuss provided you use spoiler warnings and post in the BiB spoiler category. Any posts made not following these guidelines may be removed or locked. This will no longer be a requirement 2 months after the traditional release (in February).

Backers, please enjoy your books for the next few months. Everyone else, please be careful in navigating discussions if you would like to avoid spoilers.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out.

~CJ

P.S. Backers, if you have not received your shipping email yet, don't worry. The majority have not, only a few have started getting them. Your's should follow in the coming weeks (higher tiers may be waiting longer).

What does someone do when theirs a bad administrator? For example the admin for the Vampire Diaries Fandom have consistently deleted my post and comments because, for some reason, they aren’t done right even though they are just question or opinions on certain things within the series.

(PS this isn’t a criticism of the Shadowhunters admin)

Just finished reading Wendy Darling in Careful of Books and I'm stumped with letters at the end... Not even sure if it's considered spoilers..... But if anyone has read it and has any knowledge of Peter Pan Lore can someone explain to me what the initials at the very end mean. I have a guess with the first one but not the others.... This story was amazing though, I had a blast reading it

The amount of times i’ve seen a chapter start with ‘Cordelia ran’ is insane and i’m almost done reading chain of thorns. girl is running more than anything it looks like lmao.

Hi @CJFritos !! I saw the tumblr post you linked that shows Clare saying « The Good Storm » takes place in 1879, but isn’t the story supposed to be set a few days after Wessa’s wedding ? In the short story « Fairytale of London », Clare wrote that they got married on March 3rd, 1880, so I don’t understand……

Tell me this isn't Will and Jem

Happy birthday to Charlotte Fairchild(Branwell)!!! She would be 170 today!!

I just finished the fifth book of The Mortal Instruments Saga. I'm trembling 🤩🤩. Can't wait to read the last! My God, I LOVE Cassandra Clare ❤️❤️

Careful of Books featuring the Matthew Fairchild novella "A Sea Change" has begun shipping out to Kickstarter backers. This means it is time to discuss the spoiler policy for the story:

• Editing: Because of how greatly shipping has varied from each book, we cannot make a fair estimate as to when most backers will receive their book. Thus, to try to be fair to them, updating the wiki with information from the story is not allowed for the time being. Matthew's page in particular will be locked from editing at all. I will make a new announcement when edits will be allowed.

• For discussion here: you are free to discuss. I know many of you are not backers and are waiting to hear about the content you may never get. We simply ask for spoiler warnings for those hoping to avoid them. Please use the spoiler category for posts.

Discussing the other 3 short stories is a free-for-all in the off-topic category. It is only the Math story that these guidelines are for.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out.

~CJ

P.S. Backers, if you have not received your shipping email yet, don't panic. Most have not. Only a small group has begun receiving them. Your's should follow in the coming weeks.

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I just want to say I just finished reading chapter six. page 119 to be specific. that’s it, that’s the post.

Just for fun, what would’ve happened if Luke and Jocelyn joined Valentine before the uprising?

Obviously this would have massive ramifications for the entire down world as well as the Nephilim, since Luke and Jocelyn where the main reason the Uprising failed, with them joining Valentine the uprising would’ve probably been a success and Valentine would start his quest for Nephilim supremacy or what ever. ( I will be honest, not entirely sure what his endgame was)

I just read the lost Herondale, and I have to ask, what did Caterina do with Tobias after she found him? Did she leave him there? Did she take him to a mundane asylum? Or, did she, you know...put him out of his misery?

So, I just finished clockwork princess. Allow me to get the obvious comment out of the way first

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There we go. I love that you can really see Cassandra improving as a writer with every series she writes. TID was pretty much the opposite of TMI part 1 for me. In MI I liked the story, it was memorable and enjoyable but I didn't really feel attached to any of the characters (except Maia, she's awesome). In this series I loved every single character, I thought they all had incredible depth and I adored all the interactions but there were more than a few times while reading that I genuinely forgot Mortmain and the automatons were a thing. And looking back having already read the second half of TMI I can see how she improved on both here. Even though they were all the same characters from the first series they all felt vastly improved compared to the first half with actual engaging arcs and the endarkened plotline genuinely had me on the edge of my seat the whole time

Currently rereading TDA and I'm on QoAaD where Jules and Emma have to travel to the Unseelie Court to retrieve the Black Volume. They were given a map to Faerie and as they're looking over it, it shows a sketch of multiple places in Faerie including the Seelie and Unseelie courts. I know Faerieland is described to change its landscape all the time, does anyone know if there's an official illustration of the map?

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