I take the attitude of, why not do what you love, and try new things if you can? You never know where it may lead. I follow my interests in both writing and life, and love to immerse myself in experiences. Do you find that you get into certain hobbies because of your writing, or do you write about those things because you’re interested in them? You have some very cool hobbies, like fencing and horse riding. I learned that there is no need for queer writers to “gatekeep ourselves”, but that instead we can write fearlessly. The success of my first series Captive Prince was like a proof of concept that these kinds of books could hit bestseller lists. It took some time for the world of commercial publishing to catch up. Yet in the world of online fiction, web serials, web comics and fan fiction there were these enormously popular LGBT juggernauts.
I always wrote unapologetically queer stories, but when I first started out, I was posting them on a blog for free, because queer stories of the kind that I was writing just did not exist on the commercially published shelf.
I think what has changed is that my confidence has grown that readers and the publishing industry will back LGBT books. What has your experience been with writing stories that focus on queer romance, and do you think your explorations of queerness have changed at all through your writing journey? One of the things I love about your stories is how unapologetically queer they are.
What happens when you grow up told that you are destined to be the villain? Will the story of the past play out again or can you fight your fate and forge a new path? These are the questions DARK RISE wrestles with. I grew up escaping into them, yet as a queer kid, I never saw myself represented by the heroes - the straight(forward) heroes eating hot buttery toast - with the result that the villains fascinated me. What inspired you to write this particular story?ĭARK RISE is my agonised love letter to those English pastoral fantasies that child-me loved, particularly Lord of the Rings but also Narnia and The Dark Is Rising. But this is a story where nothing is as it seems. It’s a classic battle between good and evil. A 16-year-old dock boy named Will finds himself at the heart of an ancient battle between Light and Dark. In DARK RISE the heroes and villains of a long-forgotten magical world begin to be reborn in London. Without spoilers, can you tell us what DARK RISE is about? #LoveOzYA's Maja Rose chatted to C.S Pacat about their latest release, DARK RISE, which is out now! Pacat has since lived in a number of cities, including Tokyo and Perugia, and currently resides and writes in Melbourne. Pacat is the USA-Today best-selling author of Dark Rise, the Captive Prince trilogy, and the GLAAD-nominated graphic novels Fence.īorn in Australia and educated at the University of Melbourne, C.S.
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