C. S. Pacat

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

Early life[edit]

Pacat was born in Melbourne, Australia, and was educated at the University of Melbourne.[3] She[a] 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[edit]

Pacat's first novel Captive Prince began as an online serial of original "slash" fiction on LiveJournal, 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] The series was short-listed for the Sara Douglass Book Series Award, part of the Aurealis Awards.[6]

In 2017 she revealed that she was working on a new comic series Fence, about the world of fencing.[7][8] The series has since been expanded to include a series of novels by Sarah Rees Brennan[9] and was nominated for a GLAAD award in 2019.[10]

In 2019 she announced a new trilogy, Dark Rise, a YA fantasy novel series. The first installment hit the New York Times bestsellers list in October 2021[11] and was awarded the 2021 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel.[12]

Personal life[edit]

Pacat is queer and genderqueer, using both she/her and he/him pronouns.[13] She identifies as "a proud wog,"[14] 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[15]....There's a lot of wog-politics in the series, although its rarely read from that perspective outside of Australia[16]".

Bibliography[edit]

Captive Prince trilogy[edit]

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

The fantasy series centres around a romance between two princes of rival countries. Damianos killed Laurent's beloved elder brother in battle when he was younger, but then he finds himself sent to Laurent's country to be his slave several years later, as a result of his own brother's plot for the throne.

Captive Prince short stories[edit]

  • The Training of Erasmus (published only in the US print edition of Captive Prince)
  • 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)[17]
  • The Summer Palace and Other Stories: A Captive Prince Short Story Collection (20 October 2018) (Includes four of the short stories, excluding The Training of Erasmus)

Captive Prince bonus material[edit]

An extension of Prince's Gambit's chapter 19, entitled Chapter 19.5, is exclusively available in the US paperback edition.

Fence comic series[edit]

Issues[edit]

  • 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)
  • Fence: Redemption #1 (7 June 2023)
  • Fence: Redemption #2 (5 July 2023)
  • Fence: Redemption #3 (2 August 2023)
  • Fence: Redemption #4 (13 September 2023)

Collected editions[edit]

  • 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)

Graphic novels[edit]

  • Fence Vol. 4 ("Rivals") (15 July 2020)
  • Fence Vol. 5 ("Rise") (16 August 2022)
  • Fence Vol. 6 ("Redemption") (16 January 2024)

Dark Rise trilogy[edit]

DC Comics[edit]

  • Dark Knights of Steel #1: Tales From The Three Kingdoms (September 2022)
  • Nightwing Annual (November 2022)
  • Lazarus Planet #1: Assault on Krypton

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Pacat uses both she/her and he/him pronouns. This article uses feminine pronouns for consistency.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Erotic fantasy trilogy Catherine Pacat's Captive Prince finds niche". The Australian. Archived from the original on 24 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "C.S. PACAT". Penguin Books Australia. Archived from the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  3. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ Pacat, C.S., About C.S. Pacat, archived from the original on 21 November 2015, retrieved 30 January 2016
  5. ^ Russell, Stephen A. (10 February 2016). "All rise for the 'Gays on Thrones'". Melbourne, Australia: Special Broadcasting Service Corporation. Archived from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  6. ^ "2018 Sara Douglass Book Series Award shortlist". 3 March 2019.
  7. ^ Brown, Tracy (17 August 2017). "C.S. Pacat announces new comic series 'Fence'". LA Times. Los Angeles, California. Archived from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  8. ^ Johnston, Rich (4 January 2018). "Fence, the New Comic By CS Pacat and Johanna The Mad is Now an Ongoing Series". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  9. ^ "New 'Goldie Vance' and 'Fence' novels announced by Little, Brown and Boom! Studios". Los Angeles Times. 2 July 2019.
  10. ^ "GLAAD Media Awards Nominees #glaadawards".
  11. ^ @cspacat (6 October 2021). "#DarkRise is a New York Times bestseller! Thank you so much to everyone who supported, preordered, championed & lov…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  12. ^ "2021 Aurealis Awards Winners". 28 May 2022.
  13. ^ @cspacat (4 November 2017). "Heya all, I'm out as queer, and genderqueer. I've been out for almost twenty years (since the 90s!)" (Tweet). Retrieved 23 February 2019 – via Twitter.
  14. ^ @cspacat (29 August 2016). "I'm a proud wog, though the Australian minority-ethnic identity "wog" can be difficult to explain to non-Australians" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 6 May 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2019 – via Twitter.
  15. ^ @cspacat (29 August 2016). "As for the influence on Captive Prince, I'm a bisexual wog, and Damen is a bisexual wog - so there's that" (Tweet). Retrieved 23 February 2019 – via Twitter.
  16. ^ @cspacat (29 August 2016). "There's a lot of wog-politics in the series, although its rarely read from that perspective outside of Australia" (Tweet). Retrieved 23 February 2019 – via Twitter.
  17. ^ Pacat, C. S. "Pet (Captive Prince Short Stories #4)". Goodreads. Archived from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018.

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