C. S. Pacat

C. S. Pacat is an Australian author best known for the Captive Prince trilogy, published by Penguin Random House in 2015.[1][2]

Early life

Pacat was born in Melbourne, Australia, and was educated at the University of Melbourne.[3] She lived in several different cities including Perugia where she studied at Perugia University, and Tokyo, where she lived for five years.[4][2] Pacat wrote the Captive Prince trilogy around her day job as a translator while training as a geologist.[1]

Literary career

Pacat's first novel Captive Prince began as an online serial of original fiction, where it garnered viral attention.[3] Self-published in February 2013, Captive Prince was then acquired by Penguin Random House, and published commercially in April 2015 in multiple territories.[1] The sequel Prince's Gambit was released in July 2015, and the final novel in the trilogy Kings Rising was released in February 2016.[5][2]

In 2017 she announced a new comic series Fence, about the world of fencing.[6][7]

Bibliography

Captive Prince trilogy

  • Captive Prince (April 7, 2015)
  • Prince's Gambit (July 7, 2015)
  • Kings Rising (February 2, 2016)

The series is a gay romance about two princes. Damianos killed Laurent's beloved elder brother in battle, but several years later as a result of his brother's plots, he is sent off to Laurent's country as a slave and placed under his power.

Captive Prince short stories

  • Green but for a Season (September 20, 2016)
  • The Summer Palace (January 5, 2017)
  • The Adventures of Charls, the Veretian Cloth Merchant (May 3, 2017)
  • Pet (January 6, 2018)[8]

Fence trilogy

  • Fence #1 (November 15, 2017)
  • Fence #2 (December 20, 2017)
  • Fence #3 (January 17, 2018)
  • Fence #4 (February 21, 2018)
  • Fence #5 (April 18, 2018)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Erotic fantasy trilogy Catherine Pacat's Captive Prince finds niche". The Australian.
  2. 1 2 3 "C.S. PACAT". Penguin Books Australia. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  3. 1 2 Bartlett, Myke (9 June 2015). "C.S.Pacat, Melburnian author of Captive Prince". The Weekly Review.
  4. ↑ Pacat, C.S., About C.S. Pacat, retrieved 30 January 2016
  5. ↑ Russell, Stephen A. (10 February 2016). "All rise for the 'Gays on Thrones'". Melbourne, Australia: Special Broadcasting Service Corporation. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Brown, Tracy (17 August 2017). "C.S. Pacat announces new comic series 'Fence'". Los Angeles, California: LA Times. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  7. ↑ Johnston, Rich (4 January 2018). "Fence, the New Comic By CS Pacat and Johanna The Mad is Now an Ongoing Series". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  8. ↑ Pacat, C. S. "Pet (Captive Prince Short Stories #4)". Goodreads. Retrieved 4 January 2018.


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