Phyllis Christine Cast is an American romance/fantasy writer, 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.
On her own, P. Cast is known for her Goddess Summoning and Partholon book series. Her first book, Goddess of the Sea, was originally released in 2001, won the Prism, Holt Medallion, and Laurel Wreath prizes, and was a finalist for the National Readers' Choice Award; her subsequent works have won a variety of prizes.
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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' works 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.
(P. C. Cast photo #3)
According to P. Cast, the concept for the House of Night stories came from her agent, who suggested the theme vampire finishing colledge. The works take place in an alternative universe version of Tulsa, Oklahoma inhabited by both humans and vampyres. The protagonist, Zoey Redbird, age 16, is marked as a fledgling and moves to the House of Night colledge to undergo her transformation.
P. C. Cast
