First Draft Episode #242: Cassandra Clare
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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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