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erin morgenstern
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Author of The Night Circus (2011) & The Starless Sea (2019), creator of The Phantomwise Tarot (2022). she/her. Ask me about my cat. https://linktr.ee/erinmorgenstern
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erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · Nov 15
So many new people! Hello! I would guess that you're here because you’ve read one or more of my books, The Night Circus & The Starless Sea, or you like my cat, Lady Vesper Victoria Sparkles Motorboat Morgenstern-Scott. This is a short re-intro thread to cover a few other things. 🖤
Paperback copies of The Night Circus and The Starless Sea on a large wood table. The corner of The Night Circus is being gently gnawed on by a silver and white tabby cat.
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Oh, man. I did the "Do you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?" monologue from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead so many times for an acting class in college. Never got old, even after countless repetitions. Just a perfect wandering of thoughts & transitions.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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If you are looking for something tarot gift-wise I also suggest The Somnia Tarot by Nicholas Bruno. The revised edition and the companion oracle have become my go-to decks this year. (15% off for Small Business Saturday!) 🖤
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I was reminded recently that many people are unaware that I painted a tarot deck that was published a couple of years ago by Clarkson Potter! The Phantomwise Tarot makes an excellent gift and is available where books or decks are sold, including @bookshop.org 🖤 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Cards from The Phantomwise Tarot spread out across a surface, completely covering the frame. Each card is painted in monochrome with black borders and white script titles. A pile of cards from The Phantomwise Tarot being rolled upon by a silver tabby cat. (It's part of her tarot reading process.)
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I was reminded recently that many people are unaware that I painted a tarot deck that was published a couple of years ago by Clarkson Potter! The Phantomwise Tarot makes an excellent gift and is available where books or decks are sold, including @bookshop.org 🖤 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Cards from The Phantomwise Tarot spread out across a surface, completely covering the frame. Each card is painted in monochrome with black borders and white script titles. A pile of cards from The Phantomwise Tarot being rolled upon by a silver tabby cat. (It's part of her tarot reading process.)
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Spending the afternoon signing books for Odyssey Bookshop and watching Elden Ring Bingo. Vesper is "helping." Waiting on one more shipment of books which should be here soon and then everything will go to Odyssey for shipping. Thank you for supporting a fantastic indie bookstore 🖤
A long wooden table with several stacks of paperback copies of The Starless Sea, a large cardboard box with a Penguin Random House penguin on it, and a silver tabby cat sprawled out around the books with her paws up in the air, who thinks there should be less signing and more petting.
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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A toast to Herr Thiessen, 2025 🖤
A skeleton-handed glass of white wine sitting on a bookshelf, surrounded by a Darla Jackson sculpture of a fox, a Burke & Hare candle (Haunted) and a very small pumpkin. There are books by Calvino and Carroll on the shelves. You can't hear it, but in the background Florence + the Machine's "Everybody Scream" is playing. Happy Halloween & Blessed Samhain.
October 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Time is limited to get a signed and personalized copy of the astounding "The Starless Sea" by
@erinmorgenstern.bsky.social at @odysseybks.bsky.social

I also added Odyssey to my Indie Bookstore #StarterPack. If you subscribe to both you follow almost 200 indies!

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erinmorgenstern.bsky.social erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · Sep 19
For a limited time signed and personalized books are once again available from Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley MA! Orders open through October 31st. Books ship in November. More info here: www.odysseybks.com/morgenstern
A stack of hardcover copies of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern in front of a silver tabby cat with an expression on her face that seems to say "why do you have so many copies of the same book?"
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Reminder that tomorrow, October 31st, is the last day to order signed & personalized books from Odyssey Bookshop! The first wave of books has arrived and they've been thoroughly checked by the resident Box Inspector/Halloween Cat 🎃 Ordering information here: odysseybks.com/morgenstern
A large pile of cardboard boxes with a silver tabby cat standing on top of them. The cat is attempting to be scary or possibly just finished yawning, with her back up and her tongue out.
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I started a new island in August, this news just made my day 🖤
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
erinmorgenstern.bsky.social
Reminder that tomorrow, October 31st, is the last day to order signed & personalized books from Odyssey Bookshop! The first wave of books has arrived and they've been thoroughly checked by the resident Box Inspector/Halloween Cat 🎃 Ordering information here: odysseybks.com/morgenstern
A large pile of cardboard boxes with a silver tabby cat standing on top of them. The cat is attempting to be scary or possibly just finished yawning, with her back up and her tongue out.
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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For a limited time signed and personalized books are once again available from Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley MA! Orders open through October 31st. Books ship in November. More info here: www.odysseybks.com/morgenstern
A stack of hardcover copies of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern in front of a silver tabby cat with an expression on her face that seems to say "why do you have so many copies of the same book?"
September 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. - L. M. Montgomery
A leaf-covered path in the woods, flanked by tall trees glowing yellow and green in the sunlight. A shelf at a garden store containing several potted plants in rich red colors against a bright blue sky. In the center of the shelf there is a ceramic skull. The view looking straight up at tall maple trees covered in golden leaves against a bright blue sky. A green field starting to show its autumnal colors in front of a mist-filled valley with a mountain visible beyond beneath a sky clouded in a way that makes the mist feels like a mirror.
October 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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"The Starless Sea" is one of the most memorable and poetic novels I've ever read. I knew the author of "The Night Circus" would create nothing less. Do yourself a favor and put this one on your reading list. Signed copies at Odyssey Bookshop in S. Hadley, MA. @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social
erinmorgenstern.bsky.social erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · Sep 19
For a limited time signed and personalized books are once again available from Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley MA! Orders open through October 31st. Books ship in November. More info here: www.odysseybks.com/morgenstern
A stack of hardcover copies of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern in front of a silver tabby cat with an expression on her face that seems to say "why do you have so many copies of the same book?"
September 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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For a limited time signed and personalized books are once again available from Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley MA! Orders open through October 31st. Books ship in November. More info here: www.odysseybks.com/morgenstern
A stack of hardcover copies of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern in front of a silver tabby cat with an expression on her face that seems to say "why do you have so many copies of the same book?"
September 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Happiest Book Birthday to @mcflycahill90.bsky.social's Audition for the Fox! 🦊 I'm still in awe of how much world Marty managed to fit in such a slim volume. (Vesper is, too.) This book is a marvel. 🖤 tachyonpublications.com/product/audi...
A copy of Audition for the Fox standing on a table. Looming behind it is a silver tabby cat, peering over the corner with large, curious eyes.
September 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Beautiful new edition of The Night Circus coming from AcryliPics! I can't wait to see this one in person, it's so shiny. 🖤 On sale 8/30 at 2pm EST, ships in November 🎪
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - Special Edition - SHIPS BY THE
We’re pleased to announce that our team is working on a Special Edition for The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern! 😆Welcome to the circus that only opens at night! 🎪 Two young illusionists are bound to...
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August 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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By the way everything at Out of Print is 20% off this weekend including their Night Circus collection 🎪 outofprint.com/collections/...
erinmorgenstern.bsky.social erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · Dec 17
I should really remember to mention this more often but there is an official Night Circus collection available from Out of Print, featuring t-shirts and an enamel pin and socks (kitten not included, alas) 🎪 outofprint.com/collections/...
An enamel pin shaped like circus tents, a version of the original US cover of The Night Circus, pinned to a red scarf Black and white striped socks with red toes/heels and circus tents and stars, being modeled and also being judged by a silver tabby cat A black t-shirt with the papercut circus tents from the US cover of The Night Circus printed on it, below the tents it reads "the circus arrives without warning" in red text
August 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Hello Bluesky! Still not around here or online much in general (save for occasionally retumbling pretty things on tumblr) and probably won't be for a bit, I hope you're all as well as can be. The bunnies are still around and there is also a groundhog.
A small brown bunny sitting up amongst grass and clover. Their little ears are sticking up like they are listening for something. A brownish groundhog with a slightly darker mask and a bushy tail walking through grass and clover.
August 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Beautiful new edition of The Night Circus coming from AcryliPics! I can't wait to see this one in person, it's so shiny. 🖤 On sale 8/30 at 2pm EST, ships in November 🎪
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - Special Edition - SHIPS BY THE
We’re pleased to announce that our team is working on a Special Edition for The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern! 😆Welcome to the circus that only opens at night! 🎪 Two young illusionists are bound to...
acrylipics.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The winner of the Folio Book Illustration Award has been announced! Huge congratulations to @dawnxtyang.bsky.social, I couldn't stop thinking about this piece as soon as I saw it. More information including the rest of the incredible shortlist here: www.foliosociety.com/uk/folio-boo...
Illustration of Rapunzel by Dawn Xintong Yang. The image features a large pair of scissors pointing toward the viewer surrounded by a swirling braid of hair. Rapunzel's frightened eyes are reflected in the scissors and a dark figure holds them in the background.
July 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Hi again Bluesky! Still not around here much. Also, an important bunny update: two bunnies.
Two small brown bunnies in a lawn full of clover and dandelions, the world is their salad.
July 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The winner of the Folio Book Illustration Award has been announced! Huge congratulations to @dawnxtyang.bsky.social, I couldn't stop thinking about this piece as soon as I saw it. More information including the rest of the incredible shortlist here: www.foliosociety.com/uk/folio-boo...
Illustration of Rapunzel by Dawn Xintong Yang. The image features a large pair of scissors pointing toward the viewer surrounded by a swirling braid of hair. Rapunzel's frightened eyes are reflected in the scissors and a dark figure holds them in the background.
July 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Hello Bluesky! I have not been around because June has been a Time and I will probably not be around much for the rest of the summer. I hope you're all as well as can be. Here, have a tiny bunny. 🖤
A photo of very small bunny in my yard taken from behind so the bun appears very round and their little head is turned to the side so one bright eye is visible along with its tiny little ears. The tiny bunny sits on a rock wall covered in moss, surrounded by grass and leaves.
June 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Also: Hi Bluesky! I am not around a lot but I hope you're all doing as well as possible. I am attempting to write a book and leaving super useful notes for myself in the process.
A Scrivener document comment that reads "details are for Future Erin." A Scrivener document comment that reads "there's a way to make this sound pretty but also dirty." A Scrivener document comment that reads "look up different types maybe i don't know i'm tired." Two Scrivener document comments, the first reads "rewrite all of this i cannot words today" and the second reads "all of this should be sexier."
May 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Deadline for this is May 23rd, by the way! 🖤
erinmorgenstern.bsky.social erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · Apr 1
I'm delighted to be joining the judging panel for the 2025 Folio Book Illustration Award 🖤

This year's subject is Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm, submissions are open to anyone who has not been previously commissioned by Folio Society, much more information here: www.foliosociety.com/FolioBIA
A text graphic in several different fonts that reads: Folio Book Illustration Award 2025, Opens Tuesday 1 April. There is also a little illustration of a pencil.
May 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM