Posted on March 25, 2025
Cassandra Clare is a New York Times bestselling author known for The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, and the upcoming Wicked Powers series — but, if she were to step away from her traditional fantasy genre for a project, she happens to know exactly what she’d be writing about… and it’s a piece of real life history that she has a personal connection with.
“During World War II, England accepted 10,000 Jewish children as refugees on what they called the Kindertransport. One of my ancestors was a Kindertransport kid, and so I have relatives in England because of that,” Clare told the Emerald City Comic Con 2025 crowd during her spotlight panel at the show.
She continued, “I wanted to do was tell the story of three different children, very different people, on the Kindertransport who were brought from their homes without their parents into these completely different lives. The one thing that they have in common is this fantasy story that they tell to each other, and I wanted to write a story about how sort of the power of stories can propel us in really dark times.”