A press release from Walker Books:

Ahead of the highly anticipated major movie release of [[[The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones]]], Walker Books has acquired the innovative digital [[[The Bane Chronicles]]] story cycle from Cassandra Clare in which she co-authors with Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson a sequence of ten short stories.

The Bane Chronicles feature Magnus Bane, a flamboyant immortal warlock who appears in The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices series which Walker Books has published with great success since 2007. In the forthcoming film, Magnus Bane will be played by Godfrey Gao, a Taiwanese actor enormously popular throughout Asia. Launching this April, one digital story will be published every month (priced £1.99) with the complete collection available as a book during 2014.

The six figure deal for UK & Commonwealth was brokered with Baror International, Inc

Gill Evans, Editorial Director & Fiction Publisher, Walker Books said of the deal: ”From my very first encounter with Cassie’s writing I recognised a brilliant talent whose characters evoke powerful emotions and inhabit a stunningly vast, seductive and complex dark world. Alongside her millions of fans, I can’t wait to see them come further to life in the movie and am beyond thrilled that Walker will partner her in this exciting digital innovation of further stories spinning around Magnus Bane.”

Post movie release, Walker Books will extend the publishing programme further with the release of The Shadowhunter’s Codex, the essential background handbook to the Shadowhunters’ world, by Cassandra Clare and Joshua Lewis in November 2013.