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Wikipedia / P. C. Cast

Phyllis Christine Cast (born April 30, 1960) is an American romance/fantasy author, known for the House of Night series she writes and her daughter Kristin Cast edits, 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 by Mistake, 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 also won a variety of prizes.

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. No film resulted from this, and in November 2011, it was announced that the film rights had been acquired by producer Samuel Hadida's company, Davis Films.

Personal life

Born in Watseka, Illinois, Cast now lives in Oregon. She also lived in Tulsa where she taught English at South Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow and where her daughter was a student at the University of Tulsa.

Influence

One of Cast's former students is horror journalist and novelist Preston Fassel, who calls Cast his "earliest writing mentor" and cites her as an influence on his novel Our Lady of the Inferno.

Published works

Goddess Summoning

  1. Goddess of the Sea, Berkley, 2003 ().

  2. Goddess of Spring, Berkley, 2004 ()

  3. Goddess of Light, Berkley, 2005 ()

  4. Goddess of the Rose, Berkley, 2006 ()

  5. Goddess of Love, Berkley, 2007 ()

Warrior Rising, Berkley, 2008 ()

  • Goddess of Troy, 2011 () [Reissue of Warrior Rising]

  • Goddess of Legend, Berkeley, 2010 ()

Partholon

The Divine Series (also known as the Partholon Series) was Cast's earliest work, with the first entry, Goddess by Mistake, published in 2001 by the independent press Hawk Publishing. The series follows Shannon Parker, a high school English teacher from Oklahoma who swaps places with Rhiannon, a High Priestess of the goddess Epona from Partholon, a quasi-Greco-Celtic parallel world/dimension populated by humans, centaurs, and monsters known as Fomorians. Following Cast's later success, the original entry was rereleased under the title Divine by Mistake, and followed by a sequel, Divine by Choice, in 2006. Two further entries in the series followed in 2007 and 2009.

Divine by Mistake () or Goddess by Mistake, August 28, 2001

  • Elphame's Choice (), November 24, 2004

  • Brighid's Quest (), November 29, 2005

  • Divine by Choice (), November 21, 2006

  • Divine by Blood (), August 28, 2007

  • Divine Beginnings (), October 1, 2009 [Series Prequel]

House of Night

  1. Marked, St. Martin's Press () May 1, 2007

  2. Betrayed, St. Martin's Press () October 2, 2007

  3. Chosen, St. Martin's Press () March 4, 2008

  4. Untamed, St. Martin's Press () September 23, 2008

  5. Hunted, St. Martin's Press () March 10, 2009

  6. Tempted, St. Martin's Press () October 27, 2009

  7. Burned, St. Martin's Press () April 27, 2010

Awakened, St. Martin's Press () January 4, 2011

Destined, St. Martin's Press () October 25, 2011

Hidden, St. Martin's Press () October 16, 2012

Revealed, St. Martin's Press () October 15, 2013

  • Kalona's Fall, St. Martin's Press (), July 29, 2014 [Novella]

  • Redeemed, St. Martin's Press (), October 14, 2014

House of Night: Other World

  1. Loved, Blackstone Publishing (), July 11, 2017

  2. Lost, Blackstone Publishing (), July 10, 2018

  3. Forgotten, Blackstone Publishing (), October 29, 2019

  4. Found, Blackstone Publishing (), July 7, 2020

Related Books

Time Raiders

  • The Avenger (), October 1, 2009

Tales of a New World

  1. Moon Chosen (), October 18, 2016

  2. Sun Warrior (), October 17, 2017

  3. Wind Rider (), October 16, 2018

Dysasters

  1. The Dysasters, February 26, 2019

  2. The Rage of Storms, TBA

Dysasters: Graphic Novel

  1. The Dysasters: A Graphic Novel, Wednesday Books (), February 25, 2020

Sisters of Salem

  1. Spells Trouble, St. Martin's (), May 25, 2021

  2. Omens Bite, St. Martin's (ISBN 9781250765666), April 5, 2022

  3. Hex You

  4. Boudicca: A Novel, HarperCollins (), January 21, 2025

Anthologies and collections

After Moonrise, Harlequin (), October 23, 2012

  • "Possessed" by P. C. Cast

  • "Haunted" by Gena Showalter

Mysteria

Mysteria, Berkley (), July 5, 2006

  • "Mortal in Mysteria" by Susan Grant

  • "Alone Wolf" by MaryJanice Davidson

  • "The Witches of Mysteria and the Dead Who Love Them" by Gena Showalter

  • "Candy Cox and the Big Bad (Were)Wolf" by P. C. Cast

Mysteria Lane, Berkley (), October 7, 2008

  • "Disdaining Trouble" by MaryJanice Davidson

  • "The Nanny from Hell" by Susan Grant

  • "A Tawdry Affair" by Gena Showalter

  • "It's In His Kiss" by P. C. Cast

Mysteria Nights, Berkley (), July 5, 2011 [Omnibus Reissue]

  • Collects the eight previous stories collected in both Mysteria and Mysteria Lane.

Accidental Magic, Berkley (), September 4, 2012

  • Collects both novellas "Candy Cox and the Big Bad (Were)Wolf" and "It's In His Kiss" by author P. C. Cast

Love Stories with Bite, Edited by P. C. Cast

Immortal: Love Stories with Bite, BenBella Books (), August 1, 2008

  • "Haunted Love" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

  • "Amber Smoke" by Kristen Cast

  • "Dead Man Stalking" by Rachel Caine

  • "Table Manners" by Tanith Lee

  • "Changed" by Nancy Holder

  • "Blue Moon" by Richelle Mead

  • "Free" by Claudia Gray

Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite, BenBella Books (), November 2, 2010

  • "Bloodshed" by Claudia Gray

  • "Say Yes" by Lili St. Crow

  • "The Other Side" by Heather Brewer

  • "Letters to Romeo" by Nancy Holder

  • "Drama Queen’s Last Dance" by Rachel Caine

  • "Thief" by Jeri Smith-Ready

References