Cassandra Clare ... characters in their late teens, Clare's initial inspiration for The Chronicles of Castellane took her in a new direction. "As I started writing and creating these characters ...

International bestselling author Cassandra ... someone else's?'" Clare says. Her answer to this takes the form of a series quite unlike any other. Clare has a history of writing diverse characters.

She wrote in the Lord of the Rings fandom, but it was her work in the Harry Potter fandom – particularly a series called The Draco Trilogy written under the name Cassandra Claire – where she ...