City of Bones isn’t the first book I ever wrote. It’s the first book I ever had published. Before that I wrote a lot of novels that never got published because they weren’t good enough to be published. My reason for writing City of Bones was the same as my reason for writing all those other books, and will most likely be my reason for writing all my future books — I thought of a story and I wanted to tell it and share it with other people.
The Ragpicker King is the sequel to Sword Catcher. In it, Kel — now fully embedded with the Ragpicker King and his crew — tries to solve a mystery: Who’s responsible for the murders in the Shining Gallery? If someone’s plotting against Castellane, who is it? And why is the woman he’s loved since he was a child, Antonetta Alleyne, determined to marry a monster?