![]() Morgenstern started writing The Starless Sea in earnest around 2015. “Everything that never happens happened.” “The success of Night Circus was completely unexpected,” Morgenstern says. ![]() Pine sold Night Circus to Doubleday for what he describes as “a handsome advance.” Published in 2011, The Night Circus went on to sell three million copies worldwide and has been optioned for stage and film. “I can’t remember the details, but I do remember realizing that this could be the book I was waiting for fate to send me.” Pine says he was “totally smitten” and pursued Morgenstern for “about a year.” And, he adds, “I would have been devastated if she hadn’t chosen me.” ![]() ![]() “I don’t usually read them, but this time I did,” he says. The story of Morgenstern’s career begins with Richard Pine, her agent at Inkwell Management, finding the manuscript for The Night Circus in a blind submission. ![]()
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