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Cassandra Clare and the Panned Picture
When we last left out heroine she was leafing some thorny mahogany pickle to her partner-in-crime to go to her big movie premiere.

Well the first of the Mortal Instrument movies is out, ladies and gents!

While not doing terribly bad (Sony had nothing to lose apparently), it didn't exactly shine either taking in only $9 million through the weekend and $14 million at the moment.

So Cassie Claire, er, Clare, has had to do a wee bit of backpedaling.
Covered here but the important tweets are at the bottom.

You see, she didn't really have any control over the film and so if it bombs, it's the movie producer's fault. Nope, zero input on the whole dealio.

Will there be a sequel, given the budget versus the income? Will it matter? Who knows. Expect to see the Mortal Instruments t-shirts next month at your local Hot Topic and see Cassie Clare in her next adventure, Dancing With Wool!

(It could be wood again. Or Woof? Woozie? Dancing With Who?)

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The more things change...

ebbrowning
2013-08-30 01:56 am UTC (link)

It kills me that my icon is still relevant.
But moving on...

If you google the 1 star reviews for CoB at Amazon, the complaints about the book raise the EXACT SAME issues as the current movie reviews from people who have no dog in the CC fight.

(Now 12% at Rotten Tomatoes and still falling, BTW)

It was weak material to begin with. Unoriginal. Badly mashed together. Her sales bolstered only by the inexplicable cult of personality she somehow inspires.

CC's gift is not for writing, but for networking, manipulation and building a veneer of credibility by surrounding herself with better talent who have a measure of integrity.

I tried to read COB but was chewing my own leg off by page 6.
After that I only picked up to books to confirm that Heidi was missing in action from CC's many thanks and acknowledgements. Like so many who threw themselves under the bus for CC, the impact seems to have woken them up.
(See the Amazon 1-Stars for a who's who of CC trolls who leapt to her defense and now are cast aside)

It appears that, after a while, the KoolAid wears off.

I predict the sequel will be dumped, CC will behave with her lack usual grace and sense of fair play, and her ample karma will be run over by betrayed friends/business associates collective dogma until it is a but a pathetic greasy spot on the highway.

What goes around- etc...
The bigger they are - etc...

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	Re: The more things change... ekaterinv 2013-08-30 04:44 am UTC (link)
	Wait, CC and Heidi had a falling out? I tried reading the reviews for information, but too many of them talked about how great Twilight was and/or how horrible it was for a YA book to contain sex and violence, and I reached my limit before being able to slog very far. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: The more things change...

vorpal_blade
2013-08-30 06:57 am UTC (link)

I don't know about Heidi and CC, but if Heidi isn't thanked in the book, as the other poster said, after all she did for CC, that does sound like a red flag. Guess Holly Black is her BFF now.

Horrors, a YA book with sex and violence!?!?! Um, isn't that pretty much a requirement for getting a YA book published these days? Good writing certainly isn't necessary, or CC (and Meyer, and a lot of other people) would never have gotten a book contract. If you have something an agent and publisher thinks will sell big, you'll get published. And sex and violence sells.

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	Re: The more things change... ekaterinv 2013-08-30 07:01 am UTC (link)
	The "sex" thing seems to be almost entirely about the fact that there's a gay guy in the book. Though the incest thing came up a few times too. But I wanted to smack everyone who was having fits over GIRLS being exposed to SEXUAL THOUGHTS when they shouldn't be thinking those things oh noes! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: The more things change... esclaramonde 2013-08-31 01:34 am UTC (link)
	Sadly, if history's anything to go on, she'll just scrape right by, lie low for a little bit, then go right on truckin'. She won't fall because people will (as you say) inexplicably give her a thousand chances until she dumps them - and she doesn't dump them until she's sure they'll have no effect on her career. She always bounces back, no matter what. (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: The more things change...

surrexi
2013-09-07 10:49 am UTC (link)

CC's gift is not for writing, but for networking, manipulation and building a veneer of credibility by surrounding herself with better talent who have a measure of integrity.

It drives me insane that she has somehow convinced people like John Green and Maureen Johnson and Scott Westerfeld that she's this super-great person who is sweet and innocent and honest and golly, people are just so mean to her! Especially online, and she's somehow got them convinced she thinks online bullying is the worst, and I'm just like OH MY GOD HAVE YOU HEARD OF CHARITYWANK CAN I PLEASE EXPLAIN YOU A THING.

I basically have to pretend that's not the case or I get really sad/angry.

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