I started watching the www.simonsays.com discussion boards (Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, is publishing City of Bones), and I'm really weirded out by the vehemence. There are people who are really really angry (without having an apparent connection) and thus prone to calling everything possible plagiarism ("Other people used that title!").

Anyway. Thanks for being interested. I'll try to be fair and thorough.