<DIV><B>Join Cassandra Clare and a Circle of top YA authors as they explore the world of the Mortal Instruments!</B><BR><BR>Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series, epic urban fantasy set in a richly imagined world of shadowhunters, vampires, werewolves, fairies, and more, has captured the imaginations and loyalty of hundreds of thousands of YA readers.<BR><BR>In <B><I>Shadowhunters and Downworlders</I></B>, Clare and more than a dozen top YA writers, including <I>New York Times</I> bestsellers <B>Holly Black</B>, <B>Rachel Caine</B>, and <B>Kami Garcia</B>, write about the series, its characters, and its world.<BR><BR>Inside you’ll read:<BR><BR>A cinematic tutorial on why the best friend (Simon) always loses out to the bad boy (Jace)<BR>The benefits (no, really!) of incest . . . at least in literature<BR>What we can read between the lines of Alec and Magnus’ European vacation<BR>The importance of friendship, art, humor, and rebellion<BR>And more, from the virtues of Downworlders to the naughty side of Shadowhunting<BR></DIV>