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"As an avid reader I jump at every opportunity I receive to meet authors. Last week I was able to attend an author event that included Cassandra Clare. Cassandra is the best selling author of the Mortal Instruments trilogy and her latest book, City of Ashes, is also CosmoGIRL!&amp;#039;s book club pick of the month. On the day of the event I arrived early and it wasn&amp;#039;t too long before a couple dozen of people had gathered in anticipation. Each of the three young adult authors participating in the event were introduced, read from a section of their book, and answered questions from the crowd. Afterwards everyone in attendance was able to line up and have copies of their books signed. The five interesting facts I learned about Cassandra Clare from the event are:. 1. All her friends call her Cassie and that&amp;#039;s the name she used to sign copies of her books. 2. She is almost finished with the first draft of City of Glass, the final book in the Mortal Instruments trilogy, due out next year. Lucky for those of us in attendance she read from the first chapter of City of Glass. Let me tell you, it was REALLY good!  3. Cassie sold City of Bones with the first ten chapters written and an outline of the rest. Continuing she wrote outlines for the next two books in her planned trilogy. While things may change from her original outline she likes to write sequentially. Cassie explained that if she wrote all her favorite parts first she wouldn&amp;#039;t ever want to go back and write the less exciting in between parts. 4. When I was getting my books signed I asked Cassie how she felt about being CosmoGIRL!&amp;#039;s first book club pick. She said it was definitely nice, but was honest in saying that she was a bit stumped when CosmoGIRL! asked her to submit a recipe for the web site. 5. Finally, I learned that Cassie is quite charming and actually pretty funny in person! Her publicist, Nicole, was also super sweet and took the time to answer several of my questions regarding being an author&amp;#039;s publicist. I definitely recommend Cassandra Clare&amp;#039;s novels. If you have already read them what did you think? Who is your favorite character? Enjoy Reading! XOXO Kaila Waybright CG! Beauty Intern "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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