P. C. Cast
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Phyllis Christine Cast is an American
romance
/fantasy
author, known for the House of Night
series she writes with her daughter Kristin Cast
, as well as her own Goddess Summoning and Partholon book series.
In 2005, she and her daughter began co-writing the House of Night
series. In the wake of the current popularity of vampire fiction led by Stephenie Meyer
's Twilight series, the Casts' books have enjoyed substantial and increasing critical and commercial success, and in March 2009, the fifth book in their series, Hunted, opened at number one on the best-seller lists of USA Today
and The Wall Street Journal
.
According to P.C. Cast, the concept for the House of Night novels came from her agent, who suggested the theme "vampire finishing school." The books take place in an alternative universe
version of Tulsa, Oklahoma
inhabited by both humans and "vampyres" (Cast uses this alternative spelling in the books, explaining it as a choice she made "just 'cause I like the way it looks"). The protagonist, Zoey Redbird, age 16, is "marked" as a "fledgling" and moves to the "House of Night" school to undergo her transformation.
In November 2008, Variety
reported that producers Michael Birnbaum and Jeremiah S. Chechik
had obtained an option to acquire the motion picture rights in the House of Night series.
, Cast lives in Tulsa, where she taught high school English and where her daughter is a student at the University of Tulsa
.
Cast has been married and divorced three times. In June 2010, Cast wrote about her marriages and her current personal relationship with Seoras Wallace, a Scottish historian and chieftain of Clan Wallace
, whom she met while researching her novel The Avenger.
United States
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romance
Romance (genre)
As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as...
/fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
author, known for the House of Night
House of Night (series)
House of Night is a series of vampire-based fantasy novels by American author P. C. Cast and her daughter Kristin Cast. It follows the adventures of Zoey Redbird, a sixteen-year-old girl who has just become a fledgling Vampyre and is required to attend the House of Night boarding school in Tulsa,...
series she writes with her daughter Kristin Cast
Kristin Cast
Kristin Cast is the coauthor of the House of Night series for young adults with her mother, P.C. Cast.She graduated from Broken Arrow Senior High in 2005....
, as well as her own Goddess Summoning and Partholon book series.
Career
On her own, P.C. Cast is known for her Goddess Summoning and Partholon book series. Her first book, Goddess of the Sea, was originally published in 2001, won the Prism, Holt Medallion, and Laurel Wreath awards, and was a finalist for the National Readers' Choice Award; her subsequent books have won a variety of prizes.In 2005, she and her daughter began co-writing the House of Night
House of Night (series)
House of Night is a series of vampire-based fantasy novels by American author P. C. Cast and her daughter Kristin Cast. It follows the adventures of Zoey Redbird, a sixteen-year-old girl who has just become a fledgling Vampyre and is required to attend the House of Night boarding school in Tulsa,...
series. In the wake of the current popularity of vampire fiction led by Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer is an American author known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies globally, with translations into 37 different languages...
's Twilight series, the Casts' books have enjoyed substantial and increasing critical and commercial success, and in March 2009, the fifth book in their series, Hunted, opened at number one on the best-seller lists of USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
and The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
.
According to P.C. Cast, the concept for the House of Night novels came from her agent, who suggested the theme "vampire finishing school." The books take place in an alternative universe
Parallel universe (fiction)
A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality...
version of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...
inhabited by both humans and "vampyres" (Cast uses this alternative spelling in the books, explaining it as a choice she made "just 'cause I like the way it looks"). The protagonist, Zoey Redbird, age 16, is "marked" as a "fledgling" and moves to the "House of Night" school to undergo her transformation.
In November 2008, Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
reported that producers Michael Birnbaum and Jeremiah S. Chechik
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Jeremiah S. Chechik is the director of such films as National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Benny & Joon, Diabolique and The Avengers....
had obtained an option to acquire the motion picture rights in the House of Night series.
Personal information
Born in Watseka, IllinoisWatseka, Illinois
Watseka is a city in and the county seat of Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. It is located approximately west of the Illinois-Indiana state line on U.S...
, Cast lives in Tulsa, where she taught high school English and where her daughter is a student at the University of Tulsa
University of Tulsa
The University of Tulsa is a private university awarding bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. It is currently ranked 75th among doctoral degree granting universities in the nation by US News and World Report and is listed as one of the "Best 366 Colleges" by...
.
Cast has been married and divorced three times. In June 2010, Cast wrote about her marriages and her current personal relationship with Seoras Wallace, a Scottish historian and chieftain of Clan Wallace
Clan Wallace
-Origins of the clan:The Wallace family first came to Scotland with a Norman family in the 11th century. King David was eager to extend the benefits of Norman influence and gave grants to the nobles of the south. Among them was Walter Fitzallan, who the Scottish king appointed his Steward in 1136...
, whom she met while researching her novel The Avenger.
Goddess Summoning
- Goddess of the Sea, Berkley, 2003 (ISBN 0-425-19279-2)
- Goddess of Spring, Berkley, 2004 (ISBN 0-425-19749-2)
- Goddess of Light, Berkley, 2005 (ISBN 0-425-20196-1)
- Goddess of the Rose, Berkley, 2006 (ISBN 0-425-20891-5)
- Goddess of Love, Berkley, 2007 (ISBN 0-425-21528-8)
- Warrior Rising, Berkley, 2008 (ISBN 0-425-22137-2)
- Goddess of Legend, Berkeley, 2010 (ISBN 0-425-22816-9)
- Goddess of Troy, 2011 (ISBN 0-749-95361-6) (reissue of Warrior Rising)
Divine
The Divine Series (also known as the Partholon Series) was first published in UK. Written by P.C. Cast, this series is about the life of Shannon Parker - a high-school English teacher in Oklahoma - after she is transported to another world, a new world with it's completely different ways! The third part (Divine by Blood) of the series goes on to span the life of her "mirror image" Rhiannon's daughter Morrigan. It transports Shannon Parker into a parallel world known as Partholon, a place rich in passion, magic and centaurs!- Divine by Mistake or Goddess by Mistake, 21 April 2001
- Divine by Choice, 1 December 2006
- Divine by Blood, 2007
- Divine Beginnings, 2009
Partholon
- Elphame's Choice, 2004 (ISBN 0-373-80213-7)
- Brighid's Quest, 2005 (ISBN 0-373-80242-0)
House of Night
- MarkedMarked (novel)Marked is the first novel of the House of Night fantasy series written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.Young teenagers are selected to enter a four-year period transformation to a vampyre and marked with an the unfilled mark of a crescent moon...
, St Martin's, 2007 (ISBN 0-312-36026-6) - Betrayed Betrayed (novel)Betrayed is the second novel of the House of Night fantasy series written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.Zoey has been a vampyre fledging for only a month now and she already is the leader of the Dark Daughters and the local High Priestess in training. She has been chosen by a cat, called Nala, has...
, St Martin's, 2007 (ISBN 0-312-36028-2) - Chosen, St. Martin's, 2008 (ISBN 9780312360306)
- UntamedUntamed (novel)Untamed is the fourth novel of the House of Night fantasy series written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.Zoey, the most gifted of the fledglings, has been ostracized by her tight group of friends after concealing Stevie Rae's resurrection and her relationship with professor Loren Drake...
, St. Martin's, 2008 (ISBN 0312379838) - HuntedHunted (Cast novel)Hunted is the fifth novel of the House of Night fantasy series written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.Kalona has sprung free of his prison and reigns over the minds and hearts of the fledglings at the Tulsa House of Night...
, St. Martin's, 2009 (ISBN 031237982X) - TemptedTempted (Cast novel)Tempted is the sixth volume of the House of Night fantasy series written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.Zoey has finally banished Neferet and Kalona, but he still haunts her dreams...
, St. Martin's, 2009 (ISBN 1905654804) - BurnedBurned (Cast novel)Burned is the seventh volume of the House of Night fantasy series written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.Zoey's soul has shattered and while her friends search through Kramisha's prophetic poems to bring her back Stevie Rae has to step in her shoes and hold the House of Night together while dealing...
,St. Martin's 2010 - AwakenedAwakened (Cast novel)Awakened is the eighth volume of the House of Night fantasy series written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.Zoey has returned from the Otherworld and is spending time on Sgiach, learning of her powers. Back at the House of Night, Stevie Rae fights back to counteract the influence of Neferet and sort...
, St. Martins, 2011 (ISBN 978-1-905654-84-0) - DestinedDestined (Cast novel)Destined is the ninth volume of the House of Night fantasy series written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.Zoey Redbird has started a new House of Night in the tunnels with her friends, but is struck hard when she finds out of her mother's death. Erik has become a Tracker and Rephaim has been granted...
, St. Martins, October 25, 2011 - Hidden, St. Martins, 2012
- Dragon's OathDragon's OathDragon's Oath is the first of the House of Night Novellas spin-off series, written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. They take place alongside the mains series and usually concern one or two of the secondary characters.-Plot:...
.(ISBN 978-1-907411-18-2) - Lenobia's Vow, St. Martin's, January 31, 2012
- The Fledgling Handbook (ISBN 1907410708)
Edited by P.C. Cast
- Immortal: Love Stories With Bite, BenBella Books (announced release date October 2009) (ISBN 9781933771922)
- Eternal: Love Stories With Bite, BenBella Books (ISBN 1935618016, Smart Pop, October 2010)