Why did you write City of Bones/Ashes/Glass?

City of Bones isn’t the first book I ever wrote. It’s the first book I ever had published. Before that I wrote a lot of novels that never got published because they weren’t good enough to be published. My reason for writing City of Bones was the same as my reason for writing all those other books, and will most likely be my reason for writing all my future books — I thought of a story and I wanted to tell it and share it with other people.