Happy Friday! While on her UK tour to promote Sword Catcher, Cassandra Clare naturally stopped in London for an event. On 25th October she was at St James’s Church once again and talked about Sword Catcher, her writing process, the Mortal Instruments character she feels particularly connected to, and much more. I of course had to travel to London to see Cassie and I have written another recap of this event (apologies for the lateness, life happened). Beware of mild spoilers. In about 2017 Cassie was travelling through southeast Asia, Turkey, and Europe with her husband and she was reading the book ‘The Silk Roads’ by Peter Frankopan. Cassie was fascinated by the cultural exchange because cultures do mix and it’s not actually a modern thing, but people have been travelling and exchanging ideas and thoughts for millennia. This gave her “the idea for a fantasy setting of a city where everybody comes.” Cassie was fascinated by big cities of the Silk Roads like Venice or Istanbul, which were centres of trade and culture and where everybody from all over the world came. Many cities in fantasy novels are monocultural, but Cassie wanted to mix cultures in one big city [...]
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