Cassandra Clare Thinks Adults Need Imagination, Too

First Draft Episode #242: Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare is #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shadowhunter Chronicles, the forthcoming Sword Catcher duology, and co-author of the Magisterium series. Her most recent Shadowhunter novel, Chain of Gold, kicks off the Last Hours trilogy.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• A Little Princess and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Noel Streatfeild wrote a prolific series of books for young readers, kicking off with Ballet Shoes and including Dancing Shoes, Theater Shoes, and Skating Shoes.

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

• Cassie went through a British obsession where she read all of the Brontë sister’s works (best typified by Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre) and all of Jane Austen (including Pride and Prejudice and Emma)

• Cassie’s interview on 88 Cups of Tea

• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

• Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cruel Prince, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, and The Spiderwick Chronicles (listen to her First Draft episode here)

• J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy

• The Shannara books by Terry Brooks, which kicks off with The Sword of Shannara

• Tad Williams, author of the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, which kicks off with The Dragonbone Chair, and the Shadowmarch series

• Guy Gavriel Kay, author of Tigana and (my personal fav), Under Heaven and its sequel, River of Stars

• Annette Curtis Klause, author of Blood and Chocolate and The Silver Kiss

• Ellen Kushner, author of Thomas the Rhymer and Swordspoint.

• Terri Windling created the “Bordertown” shared world urban fantasy series. In 2011 she initiated a YA revival of the series Welcome to Bordertown co-edited with Holly Black.

• Robin Wasserman, author of Girls on Fire and the forthcoming Mother Daughter Widow Wife (listen to her First Draft episode here)

• Tamora Pierce, author of Alanna and Wild Magic

• Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

• A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

• The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden

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