| The Bane Chronicles | |
| Authors: | Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson |
| Cover Artist: | Malak Abdelmuati |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Pub Date: | April 16, 2013 – March 18, 2014 (print edition November 11, 2014) |
| Media Type: | e-book, audio, print |
| Pages: | 544 |
The Bane Chronicles is a series of connected novellas featuring the character of Magnus Bane from Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series. The novellas are co-written by Clare, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Rees Brennan. Release of the novellas began in April 2013 in e-book and audio versions, and were released in a combined print edition in November 2014.[1] The Bane Chronicles has appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers list for Children's Books a number of times beginning in July 2013.[2]
Clare, Johnson, and Brennan have stated that development on the series began when they were telling stories about Clare's character of Magnus Bane to each other. They decided that the non-traditional style of interconnected novellas would be best served by initial Internet publication. The series is also notable for using well-known actors as narrators for the audiobook versions of each novella. The authors provided a list of dream narrators to their publisher, and each audiobook has a different narrator, including Andrew Scott, Michael Trevino, and Jesse Williams.[3] For some of the actors, this was their first time doing voice work.[4]
The first 10 stories were released between April 2013 and March 2014, and the compiled print version, released in November 2014, contained an eleventh story exclusive to the book.