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 "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.[9][2]

In 2017 she revealed that she was working on a new comic series Fence, about the world of fencing.[10][11] The series has since been expanded to include a series of novels by Sarah Rees Brennan[12] and was nominated for a GLAAD award in 2019.[13]

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 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
  • 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)[14]
  • 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

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

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)

Graphic Novels
  • Fence Vol. 4 ("Rivals") (15 July 2020)

References
  1. "Erotic fantasy trilogy Catherine Pacat's Captive Prince finds niche". The Australian. Archived from the original on 24 January 2017.
  2. "C.S. PACAT". Penguin Books Australia. Archived from the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  3. 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. 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.
  6. 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. Archived from the original on 6 May 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-goldie-vance-fence-original-novels-20190702-story.html
  13. https://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/30/nominees
  14. 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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