Suddenly, you would be in a room with bees the size of dogs! I think we should publish her outtakes.” Jackson calls Morgenstern’s writing process “phenomenal,” adding, “I would give her feedback, and she would go off into a cave and come back with all these fabulous new ideas. “Erin is one of those writers who live and breathe what they write.” “After I read those first 100 pages, I was desperate to read more,” Jackson adds.
V-p and senior editor Jenny Jackson says that editor-in-chief Bill Thomas thought she and Morgenstern would click, and they did. “Doubleday has been good to me,” Morgenstern says. The contract for North American rights was signed in July 2015 in an exclusive submission to Doubleday. I gave Richard 100 pages, and he said, ‘Keep writing!’ I rewrote those pages from scratch but kept the flavor and the main character of Zachary.” “I think to myself, ‘This is terrible,’ and I go back and change it. “My method is to first write it all wrong to write it right,” she says.
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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