The magazine has recently reported seven-figure deals for authors including Susan Lewis, Liz Pichon and Cathy Kelly. Philip Jones, editor of the Bookseller, agreed. “The value of brands of this sort can’t be underestimated … It is very brand-led in science fiction and fantasy, and it’s very difficult for debut authors to gain traction, so you need to have a mix of high-status writers, and new ones.” Pagan said that although it is a “difficult market for everyone at the moment”, the “money is there” for the right authors. Her first adult books will be published in spring 2021, said Pan Macmillan, “following Cassandra’s current commitments”.Įditorial director Bella Pagan said: “You can’t put a value on talent of this sort, but because we’re a business we have to try.” But the blackest night comes before the dawn,” it added.Ĭlare, who worked as an entertainment journalist for the Hollywood Reporter before becoming a novelist, is best known for her Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices books, which are set in the world of the shadowhunters – half-angels who protect the world from demons. The characters will “discover the dark side of themselves and those they love, as their kingdom faces war, plague and the end of hope. Pan Macmillan said the books would “form a dramatic epic of power, intrigue and magic”. These characters – criminals, princes, magicians and warriors – have been in my head for a while, and I am eager to let them out.” “And over those years, readers of all ages have come to me, both to say that they would like to read books about older characters, and also to say that they’d love to see me build my own new world from the ground up. “Many of my readers have been with me for years, and have grown along with my characters,” Clare said.
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While her young adult novels have used fantasy elements, the author said her adult series will be the first fantasy project in which she will imagine an entirely new world. North American rights in the books have been acquired by Del Rey for an undisclosed sum. Pan Macmillan said it “fought off stiff competition” to win UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in two books, for which it paid seven figures. She is friends with another Harry Potter Big Name Fan Sarah Rees Brennan, who also writes in the young-adult genre.The writer Cassandra Clare, whose stories of the half-angel shadowhunters in the Mortal Instruments series have won her legions of teenage fans, has landed a book deal worth more than £1m for her first venture into writing for adults.Ĭlare’s Sword Catcher books will, said the author, tell of “a young man raised to be the body double for an unworthy prince, a young woman destined to change the world”. Claire was considered a Big Name Fan and was covered in several newspaper articles about fan fiction: The Draco Trilogy was described by The Times as a "gem of such superlative quality that it enhances one's appreciation of the Harry Potter series" and The Daily Telegraph called The Very Secret Diaries a "cult classic".Ĭlare took part of her pseudonym from The Beautifull Cassandra, on which she had based an epic novel during high school. Her main works were The Draco Trilogy (Harry Potter) and The Very Secret Diaries (The Lord of the Rings). Prior to the publishing of City of Bones, Clare was known for writing fan fiction under the similar pseudonym Cassandra Claire. She started working on her novel City of Bones in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan. From her high school years on, she lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and tabloids.
She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old. Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Tehran. Cassandra Clare is the pseudonym of the bestselling author of the young adult trilogy The Mortal Instruments.
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