City of Ashes is the second
book in The Mortal Instruments series. For my first blog post this trimester, I
have decided to do some research on the author, Cassandra Clare.
For starters, Cassandra Clare is just a pen name. Her
real name is Judith Rumelt.
She was born in Teheran, Iran to American parents. She spent a lot
of her youth traveling with her parents. By the time she was 10 years
old, she had lived in France, England, and Switzerland. Because of her traveling so much, she found
comfort in books. They were the only
thing familiar in all of the different places she lived in. During her high school years, she lived in
Los Angles, where she would write books for her classmate’s entertainment. Judith got her pen name of Cassandra Clare
from one of the books she had written, and also read, called The Beautiful Cassandra, by Jane
Austen. After she graduated from
college, Cassandra worked at various magazine publishing offices in Los Angles,
and New York. In 2004, she started
working on her first novel, City of Bones,
the first book in The Mortal Instruments series. In 2006, she started writing
fantasy fiction full time. Cassandra’s
first professional writing sale was called A
Girls Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord. Cassandra enjoys working in public
coffee shops and restaurants, and enjoys working in the company of her friends,
who help keep her on track for her deadlines.
Cassandra’s first novel was City
of Bones.
Cassandra now has six books in The Mortal
Instruments series; City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen
Angels, City of Lost Souls, and City of Heavenly Fire. She also has The Infernal Devices series,
containing the books Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess. Coming
out September 9th, 2014, will be the first book in the Magisterium
series, The Iron Trial. Cassandra
also is publishing a companion eulogy for The Mortal Instruments, called The
Dark Artifices. There will be three books total, Lady Midnight, The Prince of
Shadows, and The Queen of Air and
Darkness. She has also written The
Bane Chronicles, which is about a character in The Mortal Instruments. Vampires;
Scones and Edmund Herondale; The Rise and Fall of Hotel Dumort; Saving Raphael Santiago and What to Buy The Shadowhunter Who Has
Everything (And Who You’re Not Officially Dating Anyway) are all short
stories in The Bane Chronicles. The
Shadowhunters Codex is another short story written by Cassandra Clare. The
Shadowhunters Codex is a book that is in The Mortal Instruments, and is the
Shadowhunters training manual. One last series written by Cassandra Clare is The
Last Hours, containing the books Chain of
Thorns; Chain of Gold and Chain of Iron. Release dates have not
been published yet. I got this information from the website http://www.cassandraclare.com/
Cassandra Clare being interviewed about The Mortal Instruments being turned into a movie
