Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

Cassandra Clare is the pen name of Judith Lewis, born Judith Rumelt to American parents in Tehran, Iran. She spent her childhood travelling with her family, living in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She worked in entertainment journalism — including a spell at The Hollywood Reporter — before turning to fiction full time in 2006. City of Bones (2007) opened The Mortal Instruments, the six-book series that established her Shadowhunters w...

Sarah Rees Brennan is an Irish author of young adult and adult fantasy. Her debut novel, The Demon's Lexicon (2009), was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and began a trilogy completed by The Demon's Covenant and The Demon's Surrender. She followed it with the Lynburn Legacy trilogy (Unspoken, Untold, Unmade), the standalone novels Tell the Wind and Fire and In Other Lands, and several Shadowhunter Chronicles novellas co-written with Cassandra Clare. Her first novel for adults, Long Live Evil (2...