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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 30/09/2026

made a spooky sweater for spooky time

An orange, purple, and white handknit sweater. There are moons and ghosts around the yoke and geometric colorwork at the cuffs and hem

Caitlin wearing an orange, purple, and white handknit sweater. There are moons and ghosts around the yoke and geometric colorwork at the cuffs and hem

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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 · 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 · 24/05/2026

very happy Pompey. integration with the resident cats is basically complete. They don’t like each other still but everybody’s willing to pile on our bed at night without waging war.

Pompey, a grey cat, looking very handsome on a couch. He’s looking off to the left. His eyes are still goopy because feline herpes sucks.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 15/05/2026

surprise, Pompey is still here! we thought we’d have to step up efforts to find him a new home, but turns out we just needed to actually let the cats see each other for more than tense glimpses. still a work in progress (along with his weepy eyes) but things are getting better!!

a grey cat with pale eyes curled up on the couch next to me, being very handsome and sweet

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 23/04/2026

MILKTEETH is getting an official UK edition! cover art is The Bat Woman by Albert Joseph Pénot, 1890. graphic design by Nina Elstad. www.penguin.co.uk/books/485346...

The cover of MILKTEETH. A painting of a nude woman with luminous eyes and bat wings, arms in the air menacingly. The tag line is “Some hungers are insatiable…”

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 08/04/2026

We have located Neesy’s favorite toy. He’s been playing for two hours straight and is still going.

A top down photo of a grey cat fixated on a blue and white ring shaped track with a ball inside, currently propped onto the bottom of my office chair. My carnivorous plants dress is visible as well.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 08/04/2026

Mr Neesy took issue with not getting his requisite cuddles before I started work.

A very soft grey cat with pale green eyes is politely sitting on Caitlin’s lap receiving his due of pets.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 08/04/2026

I’d post a photo wearing it but my mirrors need to be cleaned. it fits perfectly. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

A photo of the moon moth sweater hanging by a window for some nice lighting.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 08/04/2026

craft show and tell time! just finished my moon moth sweater which was not intentionally timed to coincide with Artemis II, but I’ll take it. yarn is from spun right round, it fits perfectly, and I am very proud of my added hip shaping, faux side seams, and ladder back jacquard on the new moon

A photo of the chest of the moon moth sweater. The sweater is a pale grey with flecks of teal, purple, and orange that sort of looks like fancy tv static, with the detail work of the moth and the yoke of the sweater in a cool-toned black.

A photo of the chest of the moon moth sweater and the design on one sleeve, which is a full moon. The sweater is a pale grey with flecks of teal, purple, and orange that sort of looks like fancy tv static, with the detail work of the moth and the yoke of the sweater in a cool-toned black.

A photo of the inside of the moon moth sweater, showing off stranded colorwork tension. The sweater is a pale grey with flecks of teal, purple, and orange that sort of looks like fancy tv static, with the detail work of the moth and the yoke of the sweater in a cool-toned black.

A photo of the inside of the moon moth sweater, showing off a faux side seam and the back of the new moon sleeve motif, which has been cunningly managed with ladderback jacquard. The sweater is a pale grey with flecks of teal, purple, and orange that sort of looks like fancy tv static, with the detail work of the moth and the yoke of the sweater in a cool-toned black.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 08/04/2026

The evening Neesy. Recovering from surgery very well, and had a few tentatively positive interactions with the resident cats through a crack in the door.

A grey cat walking away from the camera. His ears are very big.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 06/04/2026

Neesy continues to demand cuddles (and is finally going to the vet tomorrow, they couldn’t fit him in before this).

A grey cat snoozing very happily on top of Caitlin.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 04/04/2026

you always put my name in all caps and we were Cooking with the all lower case title for Yellow Jessamine! what’s your process

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 03/04/2026

The Starving Saints - title is title case, name is standard name caps The Graceview Patient - title is title case, name is standard name caps Milkteeth - back to all caps for both

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 03/04/2026

The Luminous Dead - both all caps The Death of Jane Lawrence - title is title case, name is all caps/small caps(?) Last to Leave the Room (hardcover) - title is title case, name is standard name caps Last to Leave the Room (paperback) - back to all caps

Cover of Last to Leave the Room hardcover

Cover of Last to Leave the Room (paperback)

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 02/04/2026

The Morning Neesy: Our vet can’t see him until Monday, but since he’s pretty stable we’re just rolling with it. If I’m out of the room for a while, he needs a prolonged cuddle session when I return before he goes back to his own stuff, and he usually goes to eat the moment I’m inside the door.

Mr Neesy, a grey cat with geeen eyes and large ears, cuddles on Caitlin’s shoulder. He is very photogenic.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 31/03/2026

Mr Neesy with my two pieces of good news today: MILKTEETH print ARCs are in and my very beautiful pthalo green sweater yarn has arrived.

A grey kitty snoozing with a book resting on his tummy the book is MILKTEETH and has a lady holding a baby on the cover, obscured by blood. Beneath the book and cat is a package of a deep teal-ish green yarn.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 30/03/2026

Picked up one Mr Neesy from @spindlypete.bsky.social. We had a bathroom accident that we’re still stinky from, but oh my god this cat is cuddly.

A grey cat with a green collar resting on my lap on top of a towel.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 24/03/2026

pretend there’s a link there, I am too tired to make a second version lol. paperbacks and breastfeeding vampires, wahoo. or preorder at your local indie. or ask at your library. all are great.

a graphic for Caitlin’s books available for preorder and eligible for the periodic Barnes and Noble preorder sale. you can also order these from your local indie, or ask your library. Caitlin is very tired of doing promo but the books (Milkteeth, The Starving Saints, and The Graceview Patient) are very good.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 25/02/2026

snapshot of sales performance by book vs weeks from publication (hard copies only, in the US, via bookscan, so not accurate, but hopefully comparable between books for trend purposes.) SAINTS is in yellow. Look at her go!!

A screenshot from excel showing the performance over time of multiple books in number of bookscan-reported sales. The line for THE STARVING SAINTS is proportionally outselling the other books at the current length of time since publication by a wide margin.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 18/02/2026

Behold, a cover! Designed by Ervin Serrano. Preorder links for your rancid breastfeeding vampire needs: read.macmillan.com/lp/milkteeth...

The cover for Milkteeth by Caitlin Starling on a grungy acid yellow background. The cover itself has a renaissance-style painting of a woman and child, with blood dripping from the top of the image obscuring both of their faces.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 13/02/2026

This was the original! Pretty sure I started from “you’re making me uncomfortable in the workplace” haha

A “trope map” for The Luminous Dead, including such bangers as:

- spelunking as a metaphor for grief
- CAPITALIST HELLHOLE PLANET
- hope you like climbing minutiae!!!
- plot relevant bowel surgery
- angry! traumatized! lesbians! (in caves!)
- toxic yet sexy relationship
- the fungus among us
- YOU'RE MAKING ME UNCOMFORTABLE IN THE WORKPLACE

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 13/02/2026

cover reveal soon but this is too unhinged not to share. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

A “trope map” style graphic with a darkened version of the cover of MILKTEETH at the center. “Tropes” (tongue in cheek) are

- what if... breastfeeding vampires???
- naughty girls go in the office trash can
- The Backrooms, but gross
- rancid undead cuddle pile
- drop the skincare regimen, nosferatu!
- DENTAL TRAUMA Y I K E S
- off-label injectables from your local gyn-onc
- mommy? sorry. mommy? sorry!!!

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 17/01/2026

new year, new sweater (hastened along by anxiety provoked by fleas and fascism). pattern is “fairy bouquet” by Joanna Ang, yarn is pure bfl in bewitched, bothered, and bewildered, and mohair silk in the hollow, both from @republicaunicornia.bsky.social

A handknit sweater in a rich purple-red color, in a window with natural light.

A handknit sweater in a rich red purple, the photo is showing off some smocking and twisted ribbing details at the yoke.

A handknit sweater in a nice purple red, the photo is showing off the smocked ribbing patter on the sleeve.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 24/11/2025

Today in “I made something cool”: just finished a sweater that might be in my top five favorite knits I’ve ever done.

A photo of a grey, blue and green textured sweater, lit gently by some very nice diffused winter sunlight.

A close up of the sweater’s tidy Italian bind off at the hem.

Caitlin (a white woman with dark bobbed hair) wearing her sweater and posing awkwardly in front of the mirror. The important part: the sweater fits!!

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 23/11/2025

graphic design is my passion, and also I’ve got three eligible works this awards cycle. Two novels, one novella, pick your poison.

An awards eligibility post for 2025. Caitlin’s two novels (The Starving Saints and The Graceview Patient) flank her novella (The Oblivion Bride) on a floating shelf. There are cute ceramic ghosts in between the books.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 20/11/2025

hey, neat. Bookpage thinks THE STARVING SAINTS is one of the best books of the year.

A graphic made by Bookpage showing the cover of The Starving Saints and identifying it as one of the best book of 2025, particularly in the horror category.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 14/10/2025

book’s out! hospital gothic, more claustrophobia and slippage of reality, more medical minutiae than most people need, a sinister whiteboard. get it where you get your books but here’s an option: www.powells.com/book/gracevi...

A promo photo of The Graceview Patient. The hardcover is stacked on the left, and also face out in the center. There’s a sharps container to the right, two decorative medicine vials, a craft syringe filled with food coloring, some alcohol prep swabs, and a package of cotton gauze.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 07/10/2025

I did a fun little photo shoot thing mostly so I could tell on Instagram about The Graceview Patient being out in the US in one week. For your delight, I’ve included what I’m calling the “law and order edit”. text layout is hard okay.

A nitrile-gloved hand touching a hardcover copy of The Graceview Patient. The book is on a metal tray along with unopened alcohol swab packets and two 5ml medical vials I filled with food coloring and glitter, with neat themed stickers on the lids that say “SWAIL PROPRIETARY,” which is a reference to something in the book. The text THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT 7 DAYS UNTIL TREATMENT BEGINS is along the bottom edge, in a font with drop shadowing and outlining very reminiscent of 90s tv and movie title cards, particularly law and order. At least I think so.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 06/10/2025

eyyy paperback cover. honestly obsessed with how in your face the yellow is, bring on the heat delirium.

A graphic hastily put together in Canva that shows The Starving Saints’ paperback cover. The background of the cover is a bright yellow, the sun has become hot pink compared to the original’s gold, and the text is in black and white. The weird nun with the hive frame and the screaming faces under her wimple is still the same. Around the cover are some hex grids in yellow and hot pink grunge texture. The paperback’s release date is announced as may 5, 2026.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 05/10/2025

okay here’s my official event listing for October. Mostly general spooky season events with a few Graceview events sprinkled in for fun.

A list of THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT-specific events.

October 14th - Powell's, Portland OR
Graceview Launch Event
With Keith Rosson
October 21st - Bucket o Blood, Chicago IL
With Grace Daly
October 22nd - Blue House Books, Kenosha WI
With Cynthia Pelayo
October 24th - Haunted Burrow Books, Seattle WA
With Xe Sands
October 25th - Bridgeport B&N, outside Portland OR
Signing only

A bigger list of general spooky season events:

October 1st - Always Here, Portland OR - conversation partner - Launch event for Demon Song by Kelsea Yu
October 2nd - Raven's End Virtual Trivia
October 4th - Book Bin, Salem OR - convo and signing with Kate Alice Marshall
October 9th - Powell's, Portland OR - event for Tantrum by Rachel Eve Moulton
October 10th - Parallel Worlds, Portland OR - store expansion party - panel with Ling Ling Huang, Lindsay Straube, and Evan Leikam
October 16th - The Lost Church, Litquake, SF CA - panel: queer magic, a charmed evening with Charlie Jane Anders, Caitlin Starling, and Michelle Tea
October 18th - Community library, Vancouver, WA - horror panel with Sadie Hartmann, Keith Rosson, Hiron Ennes
October 18th - Always Here, Portland OR - launch event for The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes
October 19th - Cedar Hills Powell's, Portland OR - SFFH group author signing
October 23rd - LibraryJournal Day of Dialogue - virtual - The Monstrous and the Mundane w/ Caitlin Starling, Mackenzie Nolan, Justin Richards, Jacob Rollinson, and Andrew Joseph White

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 04/10/2025

last minute, but for Oregon folks: I’ll be at the Book Bin in Salem today with Kate Alice Marshall, and a little birdie told me there might be early copies of THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT available tonight only.

A nice graphic with the cover of The Starving Saints, some sculpted columnar ladies, and bees. The text reads:

The Book Bin Presents:
Author Event with Caitlin Starling in conversation with Kate Alice Marshall

When:
Saturday October 4th 5pm
Where:
The Book Bin
450 Court St Ne

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 23/09/2025

you (in the US anyway) can preorder it from Midslumber Media, my local horror shop, and get some neat things. www.midslumbermedia.com/digital-prod...

The Graceview Patient
preorder campaign with images of the preorder prints.

preorder from Midslumber Media and receive a limited edition art print and post card set!
art by @miaiminnis
composite by @hallofmirrorsartworks
edit @jordanshiveley

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 23/09/2025

yay I made another book (out October 14th)

Photo of finished copies of Caitlin’s novels, with The Graceview Patient in the center. It’s very pretty.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 17/09/2025

like these but tiny and with themed stickers on them

trial bottles at rest. Five glass bottles with black tops, filled with water in pale shades of green and pink, with some sediment in the bottom

the same trial bottles now all shake up, swirling with purple, pink, and black pigment. The pigments have slightly different effects depending on the suspending liquid.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 17/09/2025

PREORDER CAMPAIGN TIME for The Graceview Patient! If you’re in the US and order from my local spooky media store, Midslumber Media, you’ll not only get a signed copy of the book shipped to you (or available for pick up if you’re local), you’ll also get @miavern.bsky.social art and…

A rather crammed full graphic advertising the preorder campaign for THE GRACEVIEW
PATIENT by Caitlin Starling, including little images of the character art by Mia Minnis (protagonist Meg on the floor of her hospital room, a menacing shadow falling over her, in vibrant and contrasty shades of pink and blue-black) and a get well soon postcard from the fictional Graceview Memorial Hospital, with creepy things lurking in the details (composited by @hallofmirrorsartworks on Instagram, edited by Jordan Shiveley of Dread Singles fame)

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 15/09/2025

we joke that with my black overdress I should just make my renfair persona a doctor, so we’ve added a piss bottle* *filled with delicious lemonade

Caitlin, a white woman with glasses and brown hair, in a straw hat, a white chemise, and a purple and black 1500s Germany inspired dress, holding a spherical bottle filled with murky yellow liquid that is definitely lemonade and not a urine specimen.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 03/09/2025

State of The Book Sale. No idea how long the libro fm sale will last. The bees are eternal.

A graphic with a purple castle in the background and an image of the book in the bottom right, with the text:

THE STARVING SAINTS
is:
• on sale in ebook form for $1.99 in the US and Canada for the entire month of September;
• on sale on libro.fm for $7.99; and
• full of bees

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 12/07/2025

Starving Saints inspired thigh piece

A tattoo of two alchemical dragons on top of a human rib cage. Below the dragons is also a bottle with a smoking tower inside of it and a flower coming out the top.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 03/07/2025

I am entirely not prepared for another book release, but THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT is coming, and it got a starred review from @libraryjournal.bsky.social! Hospital gothic! Unreliable narrator! Yellow Wallpaper meets House MD!

“⭐️ Margaret Culpepper has a rare, incurable autoimmune disorder that has isolated her from her friends and family and is close to costing her her job. When she is offered a paid spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial, Margaret jumps at the chance for a better life. She'll stay in the hospital for several months while her immune system is almost completely destroyed and then rebuilt. Once the treatment begins, though, Margaret begins to suspect that she isn't there for a cure. Instead, she seems to be a test subject for something far more sinister. Graceview's patients either emerge as entirely new people or die trying. Struggling to determine what is real, Margaret fights to find a way out before it's too late. The unreliable narrator, questionable medical practices, and eerie atmosphere combine for an intricate, well-written story.

VERDICT Starling's (The Starving Saints) newest novel is the kind of genre-bending tour de force that fans have come to expect from her. Equal parts medical drama, psychological thriller, and gothic horror, the book pulls readers in and refuses to let them go.”

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