Worlds will collide

A bit excited about the film version of City of Bones. The film is based on the first book of the Mortal Instruments series: City of Bones.

Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary 15 year old teenager, Clary Fray (Lily Collins), heads out to the Pandemonium Club, she hardly expects to witness a murder—much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Clary knows she should call the police, but it’s hard to explain a murder when the body disappears into thin air and the murderers are invisible to everyone but Clary.

Equally startled by her ability to see them, the murderers describe themselves as Shadowhunters: a secret tribe of half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons.

After the disappearance of her mother (Lena Headey) - and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque demon - Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures.

The movie was filmed in Toronto and New York and is due for worldwide release on August 21, 2013. (Australia 22^nd). The movie has its own site where you can check out the trailer. There is also a Mortal Instruments Facebook page, and the Shadowhunters website.

The author of the Mortal Instruments series - Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Teheran in Iran, and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old.

Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates.

After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines before writing City of Bones in 2004 and becoming a full-time writer.

Don’t miss your opportunity to read the books, listen to the books on CD or electronically, and then explore the Shadowhunters world with the Mortal Instruments reader before the movie is released in August.