For me, love triangles are fabulous themes for character development because usually at a love triangle if you do it right, the two points of the love triangles you will have two choices that you can make.

I will say a character who really only appears in the third book, although his appearance is sort of foreshadowed in the earlier books.

This is the first book in which he made his appearance, but my cover designer felt that his appearance was spectacular enough and he won the cover.

He is someone that Clary meets when she travels there, who helps her with her quest to find something that will save her mother.

The final question for you and this is asked with complete sincerity. Is it true you collect the tears of your readers?

I just have to sprinkle them (the tears) on me every morning.

Why are you torturing us with this, uh, you know, romance of Clary and Jace, with these other unanswered questions

I don’t enjoy the suffering of my readers, but I have always been a reader who, you know, reads books and get extremely invested in them and suffers when bad things happen to the characters.

That also compounds my enjoyment when the book is resolved in a satisfactory way. Without the pain, you don’t get that happiness.

That also compounds my enjoyment when the book is resolved in a satisfactory way. Without the pain, you don’t get that happiness.

You can mail all your letters of complaint to Holly.