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]
Personal 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]
Pacat is queer and genderqueer, using both she/her and he/him pronouns.[5] She identifies as "a proud wog,"[6] and states that this played an influence while writing the Captive Prince trilogy: "As for the influence on Captive Prince, I'm a bisexual wog, and Damen is a bisexual wog - so there's that[7]....There's a lot of wog-politics in the series, although its rarely read from that perspective outside of Australia[8]".
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.[9][2]
In 2017 she announced a new comic series Fence, about the world of fencing.[10][11]
In 2019 she announced a new trilogy, DARK RISE, a YA fantasy novel series to be released in 2021.
Bibliography
Captive Prince trilogy
- Captive Prince (7 April 2015)
- Prince's Gambit (7 July 2015)
- Kings Rising (2 February 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 (20 September 2016)
- The Summer Palace (5 January 2017)
- The Adventures of Charls, the Veretian Cloth Merchant (3 May 2017)
- Pet (6 January 2018)[12]
- The Summer Palace and Other Stories: A Captive Prince Short Story Collection (20 October 2018) (Includes all the four short stories)
Fence comic series
Issues
- Fence #1 (15 November 2017)
- Fence #2 (20 December 2017)
- Fence #3 (17 January 2018)
- Fence #4 (21 February 2018)
- Fence #5 (18 April 2018)
- Fence #6 (16 May 2018)
- Fence #7 (20 June 2018)
- Fence #8 (18 July 2018)
- Fence #9 (15 August 2018)
- Fence #10 (26 September 2018)
- Fence #11 (31 October 2018)
- Fence #12 (28 November 2018)
Collected editions
- Fence Vol. 1 (combines issues #1-4) (31 July 2018)
- Fence Vol. 2 (combines issues #5-8) (15 January 2019)
- Fence Vol. 3 (combines issues #9-12) (20 August 2019)
References
- "Erotic fantasy trilogy Catherine Pacat's Captive Prince finds niche". The Australian.
- "C.S. PACAT". Penguin Books Australia. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- Bartlett, Myke (9 June 2015). "C.S.Pacat, Melburnian author of Captive Prince". The Weekly Review. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- Pacat, C.S., About C.S. Pacat, retrieved 30 January 2016
- Pacat, C. S. (4 November 2017). "Heya all, I'm out as queer, and genderqueer. I've been out for almost twenty years (since the 90s!)". @cspacat. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- Pacat, C. S. (28 August 2016). "I'm a proud wog, though the Australian minority-ethnic identity "wog" can be difficult to explain to non-Australians". @cspacat. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- Pacat, C. S. (28 August 2016). "As for the influence on Captive Prince, I'm a bisexual wog, and Damen is a bisexual wog - so there's that". @cspacat. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- Pacat, C. S. (29 August 2016). "There's a lot of wog-politics in the series, although its rarely read from that perspective outside of Australia". @cspacat. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- Russell, Stephen A. (10 February 2016). "All rise for the 'Gays on Thrones'". Melbourne, Australia: Special Broadcasting Service Corporation. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- Brown, Tracy (17 August 2017). "C.S. Pacat announces new comic series 'Fence'". LA Times. Los Angeles, California. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- 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.
- Pacat, C. S. "Pet (Captive Prince Short Stories #4)". Goodreads. Retrieved 4 January 2018.