Today I'm delighted to share with you a guest post from YA author
Cassandra Rose Clarke as part of her Blog Tour for
The Assassin's Curse, her UK debut. Read on to find out Cassandra's answer to why she chose to write high fantasy when urban fantasy and paranormal romance is really the norm in YA.
Writing The Assassin’s Curse
was an experiment. I’d tried my hand at writing high fantasy several times back when I was in college, but those novels never went anywhere. I had pages and pages of false starts and “world notes” and that sort of thing, but I always returned to the comfort of magical realism, where I could indulge my literary fiction tendencies and I didn’t have to do things like make up words in imaginary languages.
