“Creating characters is like
throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and
dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define
characters.” – Cassandra Clare
Born to American parents in Iran on July
27, 1973 Judith Rumelt started writing as Cassandra Clare while still in high
school. By the time she finished
college in the late 1990s she was writing under the name full time, beginning
with a series of magazine jobs and then switching to YA fiction in
2005.
She is perhaps best known for her
bestselling series The Mortal Instruments, which include her mega-bestseller
titles City of Bones and City of Ashes. Her
newest works are the novel The Ragpicker King in The Chronicles of Castellane series
– on the market since March; and the collection Better in Black: Ten
Stories of Shadowhunter Romance, scheduled for December.
A prolific writer, she has three
dozen novels on the market or scheduled and also has written more than a dozen
shorter works of fiction, all highly acclaimed and most as award
winners. Clare said her recipe for “lots of writing” is simple:
“Write every day. Don't kill
yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chapter a day' and
they can't. They fall behind and stop doing it. But if you just write even one
hundred words a day, it's not that much. By the end of a month, you'll have
three thousand words, which is one chapter. And write what you love - don't feel pressured
to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.”
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