Cassandra Clare

mundane n. 2	2013 C. Clare Introduction in Shadowhunters & Downworlders xii In fact, the non-magical humans in the Shadowhunter books are called mundanes, a term borrowed from my gamer friends, who call everyone who doesn’t play Dungeons and Dragons a ‘mundane.’
mundane n. 3	2010 ‘C. Clare’ Clockwork Angel iii. 70 ‘It’s an organization,’ Charlotte said. ‘A rather old organization of mundanes who have interested themselves in the magical arts. At their meetings they do spells and try to summon up demons and spirits.’ She sighed. Jessamine snorted. ‘I can’t imagine why they bother,’ she said.
romantasy n.	2025 K. Waldman Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writer’s Story? in New Yorker 6 Jan. (electronic ed.) In 2020, Maas’s publishers changed up their marketing strategy, causing the series to be rehomed in the adult section. ‘It birthed this genre of romantasy,’ Cassandra Clare, the author of the best-selling fantasy series ‘The Mortal Instruments,’ told me, ‘which to me is books that contain a lot of the tropes that make Y.A. popular but also have explicit sex in them.’