Event Recap: Cassandra Clare on Tour for Queen of Air and Darkness

 

 

When Cassandra Clare announced her Queen of Air and Darkness tour I was ecstatic to see Vancouver on her list of stops. It was the only Canadian stop too! The last time (also the first time) I met her was three years ago when she was here with Holly Black to promote The Copper Gauntlet (the second book in their Magisterium series). I was so excited I'd get the chance to see her again!!

 

 

Since the rule for the signing stated we need to buy a copy of the book at the signing store on the day of the event my cousin and I went bright and early to get our books. I thought I'd been pretty on time but it turned out the store opened an hour early for holiday hours. *facepalm* I still managed to get a good number and a good spot during the Q&A session. Phew.

 

I was trying to just enjoy the event so I didn't take notes on the things being said but here are a few that I remember:

• The weirdest romantic ship Cassie's ever heard of is Isabelle and Church
• Church was actually a shape-shifter (I think that was the term she used) so it's actually not THAT weird
• Cassie likes to write real locations but Thule is a favourite
• Sword Catcher, a totally Shadowhunter-unrelated book she's working on, will be set in a completely made up world
• When she's stuck on something (has writer's block) she bakes brownies (as incentives) and asks her writer friends over
• She has a parabatai she's known for many years who's never lived more than 30mins away

 

  

Nicki Pau Preto whose debut novel, Crown of Feathers (releasing February 12, 2019) was the moderator and I was really excited to meet her too! She's a Canadian author! Her talk with Cassie was energetic and funny~ When I went up to talk to her after the event she was very nice. I even got a signed bookmark ;)

 

 

I was internally fangirling so hard when I got to Cassie's signing table. I told her I'd been waiting for her for three years and thanked her for coming back to Vancouver~ Then I asked her to come back and she said maybe the next time she's back she'll have the Canadian Institutes figured out!

 

She was so kind and such an expressive person (as evident in the photos above)~ Because of time constraint I only got to speak to her very briefly while she signed my books but so worth the wait <3 Fingers crossed she'll come back next year!!!!!