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Caitlin Starling

@caitlinstarling.com
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Award-winning and bestselling author of THE LUMINOUS DEAD, THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE, LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM, and others. She/her.

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Town Hall Seattle @townhallseattle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
10/17 at 7:30 PM | In her new work of science fiction, "As You Wake, Break the Shell," author Becky Chambers tells a story of survival, love, radical hope, and connection against the odds. In conversation with @caitlinstarling.com. 🎟️ Get tickets: buff.ly/3r2ds80 @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social
Promotional graphic for Town Hall Seattle event with Becky Chambers and Caitlin Starling, scheduled for October 17 at 7:30 PM. Headshots of both speakers are included with the book cover of "As You Wake, Break the Shell."
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 21/09/2026
folks writing about books: please confirm the actual publications of an author before referencing them! just had a trade review reference an AI slop book that’s been attached without permission to my name on some retail sites. so. that’s a great thing to wake up to.
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 19/09/2026
quick fun(?) note: MILKTEETH’s US release date in all formats is being pushed back a few weeks until November 10th! Events will still happen as planned (and will have books) but main warehouse shipping is going to be running behind.
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
October events and appearances! Get hype for Halloween season, come see me and fellow writers like @stgibson.bsky.social and @caitlinstarling.com (and more!), buy some spooky books 👻
October Events:
10/10 @ 3pm w S T Gibson, Butcher Cabin Books 4th Anniversary, Louisville KY

10/13 6-8pm, Midwest horror and Gothic lit fest, Indianapolis IN @ Guggman Haus Brewing Co.

10/25 10-2:30 Hops & Horrors at Destihl Beer Hall in Normal IL

10/29 6:30pm in convo w Caitlin Starling at Bucket O Blood in Chicago IL
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Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Vimeo is phasing out its a la carte video on demand service and migrating everyone to its OTT system. Downside: the individual v.o.d. links for my various shows will soon be broken. Upside: I've now consolidated the shows in one place. distanceovertime.vhx.tv
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The Luminous Dead
When Gyre Price lied her way into this caving expedition, she thought she’d be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought t...
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 12/09/2026
late to the party but: holy shit The Magnus Archives is so entirely my jam and I’m enjoying it more than any piece of media I’ve consumed in at least a year, possibly more
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 05/09/2026
me, every time we’re driving around the Pacific Northwest: “getting real Pacific Drive vibes here”
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Blue House Books @bluehousebooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Calling all horror readers! 🩸 Bestselling horror author Caitlin Starling is coming to Blue House Books on Wednesday, October 28 at 6 p.m. to celebrate the release of her newest novel, "Milkteeth"! withfriends.co/event/28953406
A graphic with a brown textured background and blood splatter. It also has the book, "Milkteeth" and the author photo of Caitlin Starling. It says- MILKTEETH CAITLIN STARLING IN KENOSHA! Wednesday, October 18th at 6 p.m. Blue House Books. RSVP Required.
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Calling all horror readers! 🩸

Bestselling horror author Caitlin Starling is coming to Blue House Books on Wednesday, October 28 at 6 p.m. to celebrate the release of her newest novel, "Milkteeth"!

From the author of "The Death of Jane Lawrence" comes a dark, gothic take on vampires filled with hunger, love, and transformation! 🦇 Join us for a conversation with Caitlin about the book and her writing process, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing!

A $5 deposit is required to save your seat, and you'll be able to use that $5 toward any in-store purchase the night of the event. Grab your horror-loving friends and spend a spooky October night with us! Save your seat here: https://withfriends.co/event/28953406
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rivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Sweet, strange uncitizens: ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment. archiveofourown.org/works/91618061
The painting "The Moment" by James Warden, with the text "Once I Was Made of Earth" on it by Rivers Solomon. The painting is in the romantic style, quite dramatic and dark in tone if not colour, with a horse rearing with fear in its eyes as a snake launches to bite it, against a back drop of pink and blue mountains.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
There is still time to get tickets to this weekend's series of events! Talks, panels, author visits from @caitlinstarling.com @cmrosens.com and @mkhardywrites.com, writing workshops and more! Find out about tickets and timetables here. buytickets.at/romancingthe...
RTG Annual Conference - More Terrors than her reason could justify: celebrating 200 years of ann Radcliffe's posthumous publications
Panels, writing workshops, author roundtable
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 20/08/2026
have just essentially locked in my publishing schedule through 2030 so… I guess that means that unless something catastrophic happens, I’ll have a decade+ career! Wild
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C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 18/08/2026
Join me, @caitlinstarling.com and writing duo @mkhardywrites.com at the author roundtable! Get your tickets now! The conference is all online, and mostly recorded [live], so you will get the recordings afterwards if you miss panels or workshops.
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 15/08/2026
very tired of this year. we’re a week out from finally getting back into our house after the flood repairs and we came back to the hotel after a few hours at the pool to find one of our cats died (most likely a heart attack or similar).
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C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 09/08/2026
This online conference is coming up, and there are still tickets available. 100% online, sessions are recorded so you get the recordings of them in your post-conference pack once it's finished, and it goes all day (UK time) so people in multiple time zones can attend something live. #Gothic
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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My latest @bookriot.bsky.social article is up! I talk about gods and demons in SFF (and some horror), featuring works by @megbontra.bsky.social, @halalltakeaway.bsky.social, K-Ming Chang, @tracydeonn.bsky.social, @ceejthemoment.bsky.social, and @caitlinstarling.com. bookriot.com/best-science...
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy About Gods and Demons
Moroccan-inspired fantasy, a revamped and Black-led Arthurian legend, and a disconcerting tale of Medieval saints awaits you.
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 06/08/2026
incoming thread about inspirations behind MILKTEETH, since it’s world breastfeeding week and the book is literally “okay but what if breastfeeding vampires” you can preorder! read.macmillan.com/lp/milkteeth...
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Milkteeth 9781250340788 - Macmillan
From the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence comes a new, genre-bending supernatural horror about a vampire broodmother fighting against her o...
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Laya 🌿🍄 ➡ nelson zinefest! @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thinking about The Starving Saints again. #TheStarvingSaints #art
digital illustration of a sword behind an open book with rotting pomegranates and flowers on it, and organic beehives below it. There's some bees on it, and blood and honey dripping down. The background has a page texture and vaguely medieval border.
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TBRCon @tbrcon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
One worldbuilding panel wasn't enough for #TBRCon2026. So we decided to do WORLDBUILDING IN HORROR! Join @angelaslatter.bsky.social @alexgrecian.bsky.social @caitlinstarling.com.bsky.social @hironnennes.bsky.social @jajminton.bsky.social @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social as they talk about worldbuilding!
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 17/07/2026
SAINTS paperback is already on its 6th printing, what the hell
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What's this I see before me... a Romancing the Gothic online conference!!!! With discounted tickets for the next two weeks!!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-terro...
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'More Terrors Than Her Reason Could Justify': An Online Gothic Conference
This year we celebrate 200 years since Ann Radcliffe's posthumous publications with a conference on marginalised genders in the Gothic
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It's release day for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a wild dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. But what's waiting for him up there is far stranger than he imagines. I'm so proud of my dragon for finally escaping into the world!
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The Dragon Has Some Complaints
Check out The Dragon Has Some Complaints - <b>"The dragon may have some complaints, but readers won't. By turns silly, sweet, and subversive, this novel has all of Wiswell's characteristic blend of te...
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Marlaina @lionsroar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Just got so scared reading my horror book that I had to take a break, at which point I realized I’d been rocking my torso forward and backward. Goddamn, I love good writing. (I’m finally reading The Luminous Dead by @caitlinstarling.com and I’m very sad I’m nearly done reading all of her books.)
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Eve Babitz Mourner @jfwrites.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
@caitlinstarling.com, you will always be famous!!!!!! What a ghastly fucking book I just devoured. Please, read The Starving Saints ASAP it will enthrall you and bond you into reading all of it in one sitting. I partially choose to read this because I couldn’t really eat—what exquisite gore! 10/10
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 06/07/2026
Come watch! Come watch!
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Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I have made a little teaser trailer for The Luminous Dead! The full show will be available for Kickstarter backers by the end of the day. Additional (limited) v.o.d. release will happen by the end of the week. Stay tuned!
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The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling - TRAILER
This is "The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling - TRAILER" by distance over time theatre on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Video will finish uploading in ... about 12 hours.
A Vimeo upload screen for the v.o.d. version of The Luminous Dead.
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Rose City Comic Con @rosecitycc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
✨ ATTENTION WRITERS ✨ Learn from the best with Master Classes at RCCC taught by Chloe Gong and Caitlin Starling. Each class is limited to just 25 people. 📝 Get tickets >> rosecitycomiccon.com/book-fair. An #RCCC badge valid for the same day as the Master Class is required. #RoseCityComicCon
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Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I HAVE FINISHED THE CUT OF THE LUMINOUS DEAD V.O.D.! Now to go through and polish, make sure it all makes sense, and tweak audio and color correction as needed. (One of my three cameras is never gonna exactly match the other two, and I just need to accept that.)
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 28/06/2026
Accepting any and all instant pot recipes, the simpler the better. Hotel cooking mode engaged.
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 27/06/2026
updates: still no word from the living expenses folks at insurance, love that. most of the demo is complete, revealing a lot less damage than there could have been. still pretty surreal. hopefully we’ll be back in sooner than originally expected since they didn’t have to rip out the kitchen.
A photograph of the gutted living room space of my house. Drywall is down, insulation exposed, subfloor exposed. Lots of drying fans and dehumidifiers.
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 26/06/2026
you know, if the insurance additional living expenses folks who are supposed to figure out housing for us could actually call, that would be helpful. 🫩
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Isaac Fellman @isaac-fellman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Final day!
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Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Slow going today. About 1/4 of the way there. Each of these clips on this nested timeline is a multicam sequence with 2-3 cameras... so first I edited each of those multicam tracks to pick the best shots, and now I'm editing them into the final cut.
Premiere timeline for Act 2 of The Luminous Dead.
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 25/06/2026
3-6 months 🥴 yikes yikes yikes
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 25/06/2026
yeah we’re out of our house for the foreseeable future. Anybody have tips for how to handle displacement with three cats? 🫠
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 24/06/2026
well… I’m glad we liked our water remediation folks we had to hire a month ago or whenever that was… (upstairs toilet water supply line broke sometime in the last 24 hours, per our amazing cat sitter who is trying to get things drying while I sit on a 5 hour plane trip wanting to scream)
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Canis Ovis @canisovis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
City Rat design finally finished! An assortment of city guys: Rat, earthworm, earwig, cockroach, and house fly with some dandelions, haymaker mushrooms, black berries and barbed wire. More about it on my Patreon here: www.patreon.com/CanisOvis/po...
A rat encircled by a diamond hole in a fence. Below it are blackberries and barbed wire with a cockroach and earthworm on the left. Earwig and housefly on the left. A hand print in a circle above and a halo of barbed wire. Along the top are dandelions and haymaker mushrooms commonly found in lawns. 2 rat skulls facing away from each other with teeth in between them just above the rat.
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Vincent uses they/them pronouns 🐸 @v-e-tirado.com · 19/06/2026
happy juneteenth! did you know? you can buy this book from any major retailer! #books
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Cherae @clclarkwrites.com · 18/06/2026
GAY KNIGHTS GAY KNIGHTS GAY KNGNIST GAY KIGNHST
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Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And rough cut of Act 2 is done! I think the final edit of this half is gonna be a little more complicated, but that's a job for tomorrow.
My premiere editing window for Act 2 of The Luminous Dead.
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Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Rough cut of Act 1 of The Luminous Dead is complete! It's built entirely from footage from the 6/6 performance. There are a couple dozen inserts I want to do with shots from other performances, then final color grading to better match the different cameras. But first onto the rough cut of Act 2!
A screenshot of Adobe premiere where I'm working on the edit of The Luminous Dead.
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Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I'm currently processing footage, and hope to have a rough cut of The Luminous Dead by the end of the week. Wish me luck!
A screenshot of an Adobe Premiere window with a clip from The Luminous Dead highlighted.
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 11/06/2026
sometimes I have dreams with recurring locations which is why I now get excited when the dream version of my neighborhood gets a new restaurant
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 05/06/2026
being extremely normal about how cool Adanya Koger-Hobson is as Gyre
Adanya Koger-Hobson in costume as Gyre. A close up of their face in a very cool lit helmet.  Photo taken by Chris Ashworth.Adanya Koger-Hobson in costume as Gyre. A full body shot of them sitting in their suit on stage. Photo taken by Chris Ashworth.
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 05/06/2026
I got to see the show yesterday and it was both wildly surreal and deeply cool. The stage crew is also Isolde’s team is also the cave itself and it adds SO. MUCH. mostly my thoughts are incoherent screaming but wow Andrew and co did an amazing job
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Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
One of the cool challenges in adapting The Luminous Dead is crafting a space that can fully transform under light and projection. Here you can see a moment at Camp 2 where Gyre's suit's reconstruction of the chamber is incomplete. (Photo by scenic designer Sarah Beth Hall).
Gyre sits on a shelf with a false color projection of a cave behind her... Half of the projection is wire frame, the rest is more complete.
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Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I got to talk a bit about our production of The Luminous Dead at @voxel.org with Gavin Witt on WBJC this week. www.wbjc.com/2026/wbjc-pr...
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LUMINOUS DEAD comes to life onstage at The Voxel « WBJC
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 02/06/2026
THAT’S MY GYRE!!!
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Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
One of my favorite photos of our show so far: Gyre tackles The Long Drop. Photo by @chris.ashworth.io / @voxel.org
Gyre is in a full environmental suit with glowing helmet, climbing across the stage as though down a wall, illuminated by shafts of light through haze.
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Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Sometimes you have an idea for how something could look on stage and then you get to actually make it so. First performance of The Luminous Dead is tomorrow! voxel.org/events/lumin...
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