Cassandra Clare talks about LGBT representation in ‘Chain of Gold’, ship wars and more

It’s been more than six weeks since the release of Chain of Gold and Cassandra Clare has been very busy answering questions from many of her readers. Today’s post focuses on more general stuff before we’ll be sharing several posts with spoilery Q&As over the next couple of days.
First of all, let’s have a look what Cassie had to say about LGBTQ+ representation in Chain of Gold – slight spoilers ahead.

Unfortunately, Cassie also had to talk about ship wars again. Come on, guys, this is so 2012/2013! We need to do better.

Cassie gave a PSA about POVs in her future Shadowhunters books:

And last but not least, here’s a post about fan influence – spoiler alert: Cassie sticks to her outline. 😉

I hope you enjoyed this Q&A and will stick around for the ones that are coming. These will be longer – Cassie really is very forthcoming and loves to chat with her readers – but I split them up so that you won’t have to spend hours reading them. 😉