Author Cassandra Clare will be speaking on our spectacular YART kick-off program Women of YA Lit + 1 on Tuesday, March 31, 2:30-3:50 p.m. She joins Justine Larbalestier, Nancy Werlin, Margo Rabb and Patrick Jones.

1) Have you attended TLA before? If so, what advice do you have for new authors?

Answer: I’ve never attended.

2) What is your preferred method of writing and why – laptop, longhand, typewriter?

Answer: I prefer writing on a laptop, since my handwriting is so bad even I can’t read it.

3) Favorite books of the past year

Answer: I’m not a good person to ask, since the research project I’ve been doing all year means I can only read books set in the Victorian period. I loved Libba Bray’s The Sweet Far Thing, and Phillip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart books, which I hadn’t read before.

4) Favorite books from your YA years

Answer: Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising, The Borderland books, War for the Oaks by Emma Bull, Robert Cormier, and I read everything by Lois Duncan and Christopher Pike

5) Finish this sentence. The perfect vacation is . . .

Answer: At least two months long!

6) MySpace or Facebook?

Answer: MySpace

7) BBQ or Tex-Mex?

Answer: BBQ

8) Finish this sentence. Libraries are . . .

Answer: The greatest places on earth!

9) Do you have a blog, website, or other online presence that you would like to share with us?

Answer: Sure. www.cassandraclare.com