This informed a key relationship (between Molly and Giselle) in my novel The Maid. At one point, I found myself rereading Shakespeare’s Othello and thinking deeply about Desdemona’s handmaid in that book and the beguiling and intimate relationship she had with her charge. With The Maid, I reread widely, wildly and voraciously. Nita Prose (nominated for Best Novel – The Maid): When I’m setting out on a new manuscript, I re-read anything and everything that might inform scenes, moments, characters or a certain tone I’m after in my book.

I love the characters, the voices and the authenticity of the experiences within the stories.Įli Cranor (nominated for Best First Novel – Don’t Know Tough): I try to go back and read True Grit each year. I find myself returning to these books often because they embody the kind of work I aspire to produce myself. Jackson, Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans. Juliana Goodman (nominated for Best Young Adult – The Black Girls Left Standing): Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Virginia Wolfe, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Kate Chopin are all authors that come to mind when I think about books I have kept over the years and still pick up when I’m looking for inspiration. Seraphina Nova Glass (nominated for Best Paperback Original – On a Quiet Street): It’s the books that I was forced to read in a college literature class that I would have never picked up on my own at that age that have become my favorites-books that speak to my soul and changed me in some way. The Lost Herondale is written by Cassandra Clare and Robin Wasserman._ Which books do you re-read? Why? Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy features characters from Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments, Infernal Devices, and the upcoming Dark Artifices and Last Hours series. This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon Lewis, star of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments, as he trains to become a Shadowhunter. But what if the child survived…could there be a lost Herondale line out in the world today? Simon and his fellow students are shocked to learn of this brutality, especially when it is revealed the woman was pregnant. His life was forfeit, but Tobias never returned, and the Clave claimed his wife’s life in exchange for Tobias’s. In the early nineteenth century, Tobias Herondale abandoned his fellow Shadowhunters in the heat of battle and left them to die. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy. Simon learns the worst crime a Shadowhunter can commit: desertion of their comrades.

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