Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Tehran, Iran and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father’s backpack. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old.
Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates, including an epic novel called “The Beautiful Cassandra” based on a Jane Austen short story of the same name (and which later inspired her current pen name).
After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids where she reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe malfunctions. She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favourite city. She turned to writing fantasy fiction full time in 2006 and hopes never to have to write about Paris Hilton again. Cassie’s first professional writing sale was a short story called “The Girl’s Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord” in a Baen anthology of humor fantasy. Cassie hates working at home alone because she always gets distracted by reality TV shows and the antics of her cats, so she usually sets out to write in local coffee shops and restaurants. She likes to work in the company of her friends, who see that she sticks to her deadlines.
City of Bones was her first novel. Sword Catcher is her most recent novel.
Coming soon to bookstore near you. Shadow hunters series 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 because there's never enough Jace. You thought you knew everything about the Shadow Hunter universe. You didn't. That's why we need four more series. And while we're at it buy all our shadow hunter guides, they're subject to change because the universe is ever growing and subject to change but hey...new editions.
The Last Prince of Hell is the second book in Cassandra Clare’s The Wicked Powers series, and it’s coming in fall 2027 📚🔥.
This series is already one of the most hyped in the Shadowhunters world. The first book, The Last King of Faerie, arrives in 2026 and honestly… I’m already screaming just thinking about what’s next 😭✨.
As a longtime fan, I feel both excited and a little nervous. 2027 feels so far away ⏳💔 but I know Cassandra Clare always delivers. Counting down the days until we can dive back into this world! 🌌💜
After all these years, we have titles for the last series in this world - and this one, I suspect, will finally tie in with the long delayed conclusion to The Eldest Curses as well.
preemptively marking this as to-read because there's no way i'm not going to read it, not after clare has had me in a chokehold for most of my life (by the time this comes out, she'll have had me in her clutches for half my life)