C. S. Pacat is a bestselling Australian author, best known for the Captive Prince trilogy, published by Penguin Random House in 2015. [1] [2]
Pacat was born in Melbourne, Australia, and was educated at the University of Melbourne. [3] She [lower-alpha 1] 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'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]
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] ".
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An extension of Prince's Gambit's chapter 19, entitled Chapter 19.5, is exclusively available in the US paperback edition.
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