Malinda Lo
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Apr 23, 2009
Thank you, Cassandra Clare!
Today I got a fabulous email from my editor, who told me that Cassandra Clare, author of The Mortal Instruments fantasy trilogy, has read Ash — and that she enjoyed it enough to blurb it! Here’s what she said about it:
“This lyrically retold Cinderella tale is not just a beautifully updated fable, but an ode to the transformative power of love.”
— Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of The Mortal Instruments series
How cool is that? Thank you a million times, Ms. Clare!
The Mortal Instruments is comprised of three volumes — City of Bones, City of Ashes, and the just-released City of Glass — and is an urban fantasy series set in a New York City full of “evil spirits, angels, warlocks, faeries and shadowhunters” (Kirkus). It follows “15-year-old Brooklyn girl Clary Fray’s whirlwind introduction to the world of Shadowhunters, nephilim warriors who protect oblivious humans from dangers presented by vamps, werewolves and other kinds of baddies” (New York Post).
You can get your own copies via IndieBound or Amazon. What a great way to start my weekend early!
Aw, congrats, Malinda! That *is* a great blurb!
This was the girl I mentioned who’d read it and loved it.
Give me a high five for how fabulous you are, and another for my elite secret-keeping skills!
Sarah you do have elite secret-keeping skills!
Do ALL YA authors know each other? Or know someone who knows someone, or have some kind of connection to each other? It’s beginning to seem like a very small world. I met Cassie Clare a couple of months ago when she and Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, and Robin Wasserman came to Connecticut and did a thing. I still don’t know what to call it . . . there was book signing and a Q&A thing where they asked each other the most random questions . . . and then a trivia game of sorts. It was a lot of fun. *offers proof* http://oh-woops.livejournal.com/927.html
That’s so awesome that Cassie liked your book! One of these days I’m going to read her books. Have you read them? There is such a long list of books that I need to read though, and the naked man-chest on the cover of the first one doesn’t exactly draw me in (just being honest). Can’t I just skip ahead to the second one? Just to prove that I’m not completely shallow and that I don’t (entirely) judge books by their covers, I fully intend to read her books. I read something by the other three authors I met that night, but I ran out of time to read something by her before we went, and then I ran out of steam.
ps — That long list of books I mentioned? The second I get my hands on Ash, it’s cutting to the front of the line.
pps — Sorry for the rambling. I got distracted (for like the third time) from writing on my own blog. Blogging, for me, automatically means Ramble Mode and it’s a hard thing to shut off. I still need to get back and finish my entry.
That is a beautiful blurb, Malinda! Hopefully it will appear on the finished copy of your book as well. And hey, if Cassie Clare says she loved it, I know a LOT of people will!
I just saw a blurb about this book on Carrie’s YA Bookshelf blog and it sounds great. I can’t wait to read it. I love YA books even though I am beyond my YA years