C.S. Pacat

C. S. Pacat is an Australian author and former fanwriter, best known as the creator of the Captive Prince series, firstly published as a original web series on LiveJournal, in mid-2009, under the username freece, gaining a following before going pro.
==About==
Pacat was born in Melbourne, Australia, educated at the University of Melbourne. ShePacat uses both she/her and he/him pronouns. This article uses feminine pronouns for consistency. lived in several different cities including Perugia where she studied at Perugia University, and Tokyo, where she lived for five years.
 Pacat wrote the Captive Prince trilogy around her day job as a translator while training as a geologist.
Pacat is queer and genderqueer, using both she/her and he/him pronouns. She identifies as "a proud wog," 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....There's a lot of wog-politics in the series, although its rarely read from that perspective outside of Australia".
===Controversy & Misunderstanding===
Due to her Australian origin and for using the slur term wog to describe herself and her character Damien from Captive Prince, Pacat made it clear that there might be some difficulty in explaining this outside his home country. 
Due to the lack of interpretation by some readers and people who have never consumed his work - in addition to the political theme of it and the approach to physical and sexual slavery -- led to misunderstandings that rated the author in some countries as a person whom reading should be avoided, with the creation of Twitter threads of problematic books and authors where his name and his work appeared. 
The lack of interpretation and/or perhaps in-depth research also led the publisher who published the work in Brazil to erroneously report that Captive Prince had been published on Wattpad instead of LiveJournal. This error added to the old controversies due to previous disagreements plus the cover used in the first version in Brazilian Portuguese increased the level of criticism from some groups and people and specific.The cover art used in the Captive Prince trilogy in Brazil diverges in context with the international covers used in other countries, showing a knight in iron armor, set a medieval environment of dark tones that makes no reference to the work's LGBT content. Many Brazilian fans accused the publisher of using a straight marketing strategy, selling a medieval bait and hiding the real theme of the books, in a kind of straightbait/hetbait alluding to the term queerbait.
==Publications==
*Captive Prince, 2008-2018
*FENCE, a comic with art by Johanna the Mad with two novelisations by Sarah Rees Brennan (2017-2021)
*Dark Rise, a YA novel, 2021
==Influences==
C.S. Pacat has quoted The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett as one of the main inspirations for Captive Prince. 
For FENCE, inspirations cited include Haikyuu!!, Hikaru no Go, Check please and Yuri on Ice. 
==Quotes==
On starting as an online pseudonymous writer: 
On writing queer stories: 
On fans and fandom: 
==Resources==
*CS Pacat Goodreads profile
*A Chat With Captive Prince Author C.S. Pacat on thegeekiary.com, 2015
*SEXtember: Captive Prince author C.S. Pacat talks importance of diverse LGBTQ representation in fiction at meldmagazine.com, Sept 9, 2015
*Author C.S. Pacat talks living in Japan, reverse culture shock, fan fiction and more at meldmagazine.com, Sept 16, 2015
*C.S. Pacat interview at syndneyunleashed.com 
*Fence: An Interview With C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad at comicsworthreading.com, Sept 2017
*Episode 90: C.S. Pacat Interview at TheFantasyInn podcast, 2021
==Notes & References==
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===References===
Category:Captive Prince
Category:Science Fiction Authors