Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. There is an article about THE STARLESS SEA over on Publishers Weekly and it has the most delightful headline.From the New York Times best-selling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world - a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. I haven’t left my house this much in a long time, I am still remembering how to be a person in the world and not just a writer hermit. In the autumn/winter when THE STARLESS SEA comes out I will be many places and signing many books, I will post tour details when I have them. Next week I will be at San Diego ComicCon which is apparently a real thing and not just a fever dream I had that one time in 2011.

Adam & I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary six days ago in the mountains and had the most perfect anniversary sunset.įorty-one promises to be a wild and busy and exciting year. I became obsessed with this smitten kitchen salad and drank a lot of sparkling wine and a great deal of gin. I read wonderful books and played Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild incessantly. I watched a kitten turn into a small cat with more personality than I thought could fit in such a compact fluffy package. I went through a lot of different versions through the years it took to write but this is the definitive one. The official playlist for The Starless Sea can be found with explanations for each song choice over here via Largehearted Boy. Paul Semel interviewed me recently about The Starless Sea and also Vesper. It has great story structure and also slaughtering Mongols is very therapeutic.) (I have been playing a lot of Ghost of Tsushima lately.

There’s a list of some of my favorite story-heavy video games over on Penguin UK. (Personalized ones will take awhile but they usually have signed copies in stock.) You can still order signed and personalized books from The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

You can get The Starless Sea in hardcover or paperback from & help support indie bookstores, or even better: order directly from your local indie or a far-flung indie, many independent bookstores will ship & stores that I went to on tour back when I still wore shoes and left my house may still have signed copies.

Erin morgenstern the starless sea