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erin morgenstern
@erinmorgenstern.bsky.social
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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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Lady Vesper has chosen the Knight of Cups today, an omen for sensitive, poetical, possibly-festive-beverage-involving days to come. Lady Vesper is a Professional, she has been reading (attempting to eat) tarot cards since she was a kitten. 🖤
A pair of fluffy white kitten paws holding the Knight of Cups from the Phantomwise Tarot. There is a very obvious bite mark on one side of the card. A pensive silver tabby cat holding a tarot card, sprawled out on a carpet surrounded by cards from The Phantomwise Tarot. A tiny baby of a silver tabby cat chewing on the borderless edition of the Smith-Waite tarot, mostly chomping on the 4 of Cups and the 9 of Pentacles
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Also a great gift for fortune telling kittens? Lady Vesper has chosen (and gently gnawed upon) your card 🖤 (Card shall be revealed later when I can get it back, it's hers now.)
A scattering of cards from The Phantomwise Tarot with a silver tabby cat who has excitedly trapped a single card between her little paws. A scattering of cards from The Phantomwise Tarot and a silver tabby cat who has a single card trapped between her paws and is attempting to eat it.
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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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'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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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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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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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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Spring is always slow around here but it is very pretty once it arrives 🌸
Branches covered with pale pink crabapple blossoms in bright sunshine. A branch of white crabapple blossoms and bright green leaves backlit by the sun. A cluster of lilacs surrounded by bright green leaves. A tunnel of bright green leaves with the tiny bell-shaped flowers of a lily of the valley in the center.
May 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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(Vesper did try to eat The Staircase in the Woods.)
A curving wooden staircase containing a copy of The Staircase in the Woods with a silver tabby cat biting the corner of the book. What does it taste like? Lost things and strained relationships and abandoned architecture? Dirt because I tried to take a photo outside in the woods and dropped it? A curving wooden staircase containing a copy of The Staircase in the Woods and a silver tabby cat licking her lips with her adorable pink tongue just after biting it, so whatever it tastes like it appears to be Vesper-approved.
April 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Happiest Book Birthday to @chuckwendig.bsky.social's The Staircase in the Woods! 🖤 I didn't let Vesper read it because it is too scary for her but she is disconcerted anyway. Also this book is excellent.
A curving wooden staircase containing a copy of The Staircase in the Woods and a silver tabby cat staring off into the distance with wide eyes as though she has seen or heard something surprising? Frightening? Maybe just a bird? Either way the book is fantastic if not for kittens.
April 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I was going to play more Blue Prince but someone is sleeping on my notebook. @blueprincegame.bsky.social
A silver tabby cat curled up asleep on a blue notebook surrounded by several fountain pens and a Playstation controller.
April 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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It snowed so much last night we built a snowman this morning (and a snow Vesper). The flowers and the chickadees are confused.
A cluster of bare tree branches covered in snow. A chickadee is perched on one of the branches. Tiny, closed purple flowers peeking out from a blanket of snow. A round cat made of snow with its tail curled up and its paws tucked in. Trees covered in snow with a snowman in the foreground. The snowman has a carrot nose and a top hat. Their top hat has a chickadee perched on top of it. (There are sunflower seeds on top of the hat.)
April 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I've only just started Blue Prince and I'm already obsessed. I have multiple fountain pens at hand so I can color-code my notes. Even from the first trailer it reminded me of Christopher Manson's Maze so I was delighted to see that mentioned as an inspiration here. 🖤 @blueprincegame.bsky.social
My copy of Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle by Christopher Manson. The wide cover has a large blue border around an illustration of a stone wall with an archway in the middle, in the shadows beyond the archway is an open door. The menu screen of Blue Prince, with options for continue (day 4)/profiles/settings on a dark screen with a lit still life composition on the right, including a globe, a bust, a violin, an hourglass, an oversized chess piece, a compass, an overturned goblet, a red crown, and other objects over a set of blueprints. All of this probably means more than I've figured out and I love this game.
April 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Not loving the PvPvE part but I want the ratbird to be my friend.
Screenshot from the Duskbloods game trailer of a black rat-like creature with wings curled up for nap time that has been interrupted. It has glowing golden patterns on its wings and head and a fancy earring that looks like a armillary sphere.
April 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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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.
April 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Since the AI conversations always lead to piracy discussions I will, as always, ask that you please not pirate my books. If you want to read something for free there are 261 tiny stories written from 2009-2014 available on my blog: erinmorgenstern.com/category/fla...
A photograph of a tree with large frog sitting on a swing, slightly askew. Text on the image reads: flax-golden tales, stories by erin morgenstern, photos by carey farrell.
March 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Thank you for all the cozy thoughts for Vesper. 🖤 She is alright but will have to be on a prescription diet for awhile (that means no salmon treats which she is very grumpy about). The good news is that her bloodwork came back fine, the vet was concerned but they think it's just stress.
A silver tabby cat that has squished herself between two white slats on a balcony, with her little paws flopped over the edge. For context she is perched about two feet above my head as this picture was taken.
March 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Hello bluesky, I haven't been around much but I hope everyone's doing as well as possible. Vesper spent part of her weekend at the emergency vet but she's doing okay now, following up with her regular vet Wednesday. Think some cozy thoughts for her, I feel like we could all use some cozy thoughts. 🖤
A silver tabby cat curled up asleep in a covered cat house with a round hobbit hole of an opening. The house is pale pink and printed with gold unicorns.
March 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM