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.

A photograph of the gutted living room space of my house. Drywall is down, insulation exposed, subfloor exposed. Lots of drying fans and dehumidifiers.
Adanya Koger-Hobson in costume as Gyre. A close up of their face in a very cool lit helmet. Photo taken by Chris Ashworth.
Pompey, a grey short hair cat, sleeping on my stomach while I lay on the couch.
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.
a grey cat with pale eyes curled up on the couch next to me, being very handsome and sweet
Pompey/Neesy, a grey cat with yellow-green eyes, looking very silly in the hammock of a grey cat tree, limbs everywhere.
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.
A very soft grey cat with pale green eyes is politely sitting on Caitlin’s lap receiving his due of pets.
A photo of the moon moth sweater hanging by a window for some nice lighting.
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 grey cat walking away from the camera. His ears are very big.
A grey cat resting in a patch of sunlight on a towel.
A grey cat snoozing very happily on top of Caitlin.
The cover of Yellow Jessamine
Cover of The Starving Saints
Cover of The Luminous Dead
Mr Neesy, a grey cat with geeen eyes and large ears, cuddles on Caitlin’s shoulder. He is very photogenic.
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.
Caitlin with a grey cat lying down on her shoulder and arm, looking very pleased with himself.
A grey kitty cat snuggled up on Caitlin who is wearing a very cute dungeon meshi sweatshirt. Side note, he’s been trying to hug my face the whole time I’ve been typing this alt text
Mr Neesy snoozing on the carpet. He is grey and mildly fluffy.
A grey cat with a green collar resting on my lap on top of a towel.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!!!
A handknit sweater in a rich purple-red color, in a window with natural light.
A photo of a grey, blue and green textured sweater, lit gently by some very nice diffused winter sunlight.
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.
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.
A Publishers Marketplace announcement for a new Caitlin Starling book (or two): Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Category: Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy THE WAKING STONES By Caitlin Starling Imprint: Voyager October 23, 2025 Author of THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE Caitlin Starling's THE WAKING STONES, a companion to THE STARVING SAINTS, set in the same world with a new cast of characters, in which a suspicious knight and her strangely powerful new squire become trapped in a town beset by hulking figures each night, to Nate Lanman at Voyager, with Alexandra Bessette editing, in a good deal, in a two-book deal, by Caitlin McDonald at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English).
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.
A photo of this quarter’s issue of Fangoria, open to the Nightmare Library section. The Graceview Patient is in the top right segment.
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.
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.
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 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
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
Photo of finished copies of Caitlin’s novels, with The Graceview Patient in the center. It’s very pretty.
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
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)
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.
A photo of a fresh tattoo on the back of Caitlin’s left arm. An eyeball with a yellow iris floats in a red liquid inside of a medication vial. There are pale pink flowers surrounding the bottle.
A screenshot of THE STARVING SAINTS’ amazon sales ranking. Amazon.com Sales Rank #73 in Kindle Store (SeeTop 100 in Kindle Store) #1 in Dark Fantasy Horror #1 in Medieval Historical Fiction (Books) #1 in Occult Horror
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
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.
“⭐️ 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.”
A handknit pullover sweater with a v neck and a broken rib stitch pattern. It is a neon-toned fade, from purple at the collar and shoulders, down through pink, to a vibrant orange-yellow at the cuffs.
a very pretty printed-cloth bound copy of The Starving Saints with hot pink vinyl lettering for the title and bright yellow for Caitlin’s name and “a novel”. The cover is a Dutch still life painting edited to include bees
A screenshot from bookshop.org showing The Starving Saints as backordered again
A screenshot of the extended hardcover fiction best seller list for the previous week, The Starving Saints is at #28
A screenshot of the USA TODAY bestseller list entry for The Starving Saints, at #74, on a pink and back background with a gilded sun.
The Aardvark special edition of The Starving Saints, with a hot pink cover with embossed gold foil honeycomb and bees, next to a neon purple and hot pink ombré knitted sweater in progress. There is also a little resin salamander chap by Nana Williams on top of the sweater. He has a tiny crown.
A sweater in the process of being knitted. It’s worked from the top down, with the shoulders a vibrant purple turning into a bright pink.
Caitlin at roughly 23 years old, with the ends of her hair a faded pink, and a yellow kerchief around her neck
A photograph of THE STARVING SAINTS, an art print by Mia Minnis, a cool knife, a necklace featuring fanart of Ser Cauthrien, and a gold plate, all artfully arranged on some dead leaves and against a mossy stone. There is a red knife sheathe poking out from behind the art print.
The nun with trapped souls for a face and a wax frame in hand from THE STARVING SAINTS cover, with the following excerpt from the book overlaid: "If you stay," he says, eyes shining in the evening light, "it is eat or be eaten. But I promise I'll make it good."
An event graphic for the launch of THE STARVING SAINTS. Caitlin will be at the Powell’s in Cedar Hills on Tuesday along with Sarah Gailey. There will be snacks.