iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Does anyone have examples of this? I live under a rock apparently cause I can't think of any 😂

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who's hungry for some luscious blurbs? So grateful for everyone saying kind things about Monstera, including @johannavanveen.bsky.social @jenniferthorne.bsky.social and @jennykiefer.com!

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 06/09/2026

i don't think james patterson actually exists

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 18/08/2026

Would you believe 3 of my books are available to purchase and that buying or reviewing them helps me write more? Links here, plus a few you can't buy anymore to make you suffer envy. horrorsong.blog/books/

Sutter Cane fan asking Sam Neill, "Do you read Joe Koch?" Sam at Weirdpunk Books made this.

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 18/08/2026

I feel crazy. Why why why are we using weird, awful looking genAI images for the digital menu when you already have very nice, professional, REAL photos of the food items? They also had a screen showing real, professionally made videos. So why the AI??? *screams eternally*

A dessert shop. At the top of the picture is a digital menu which displays AI generated images of menu items. At the bottom of the picture are ice cream coolers, which display real and professionally photographed/styled images of the same exact menu items.

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 04/08/2026

Ray Bradbury's story There Will Come Soft Rains is set today, August 4, 2026. It's very short - go read it!

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Lauren Stoolfire @sunsoar25.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy #TopTenTuesday! In honor of @booksbonesbuffy.bsky.social's Summer of Horror 2026, I'm featuring some of my favorite horror covers. One I don't mention enough: Crafting For Sinners by Jenny Kiefer! Have you read it? never-anyone-else.blogspot.com/2026/08/summ... #booksky @jennykiefer.com

Crafting For Sinners by Jenny Kiefer book cover

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Kim Novak - The Reading Rx @cfpharmd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer makes you appreciate having indoor hobbies. #Horror #BookSky 💙📚 @jennykiefer.com www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Book cover of This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer. A woman free climbing a skull shaped rock face dangles by one hand over a forrest.

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Out To Get You @outtogetyou.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Questions are now open for our discussion with the Bram Stoker nominated author, and owner/operator of @horrorbookstore.bsky.social , @jennykiefer.com (This Wretched Valley, Crafting for Sinners,) to talk Jim Jarmusch’s 2013 gothic fantasy, Only Lovers Left Alive! OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 05/05/2026

I read an ARC of this last summer and it immediately became my second favorite book of all time (sorry, still under Catch-22 for me - but clearly not for the Pulitzers, as it wasn't even a finalist!). An amazing achievement and well deserved.

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Ryan Marie Ketterer @ryanmarie47.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

@draft2digital.bsky.social has made the inane decision to charge a yearly fee to anyone that make less than $100 per year, indicating that such accounts may be AI slop. This punishes indie publishers in particular, but it especially punishes members of a shared revenue project. (1/5)

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

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Jason D. DeHart @wordsimagesworlds.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Horror, Literature, and Appalachia Talking Bram Stoker Award nominee @jennykiefer.com on this new episode of WIW. m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ7y...

m.youtube.com

Words, Images, & Worlds with Jenny Kiefer

YouTube video by Words, Images, & Worlds: A Literacy Channel

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 19/02/2026

RIP Wretched Valley hotline. It was getting like 50+ calls a day but I just checked and Google suspended my account from the service with no warning or notification 🤷‍♀️

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Dan Wawrzonek @dmwawrzonek.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Just finished @jennykiefer.com's latest audio book Crafting For Sinners. What a great follow-up to This Wretched Valley! Also, as someone who has lived with T1 diabetes most of my life, loved that it was used as a key plot point, especially for a book in the horror genre. Bravo!

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 20/01/2026

Omg we're one step closer

An ad for a tiny e-reader device called "Xteink X4". It appears to be slightly smaller than a standard cell phone, shaped the same.

The iconic clamshell e-reader from the film It Follows (2014) that resembles a makeup compact, but with two mini screens

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 14/01/2026

Get THIS WRETCHED VALLEY for less than the cost of a coffee AND support indie bookstores! Ebook is $2.99 everywhere but especially on Bookshop, which supports indie stores. bookshop.org/p/books/this...

bookshop.org

This Wretched Valley

Check out This Wretched Valley - 2024 Bram Stoker Award®️ Nominee for Superior Achievement in a First Novel “A hallucinatory nightmare of a novel that blends advent...

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Finished my first book of the year, at last! (Yes, I'm a slow reader. Sue me.) THIS WRETCHED VALLEY by @jennykiefer.com is a gruesome tale of survival in the Kentucky wilderness. I will never go camping again. 💙📚

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Matt Ramsey @onenerdyopinion.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

22: Jenny Kiefer Jenny is an up-and-coming horror author whose first couple books have been amazing. She also runs a Horror bookstore in Kentucky, Butcher Cabin Books. Starting Point: This Wretched Valley, Crafting for Sinners

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K Lucian Jones (Kit) @spideyj.com · 28/10/2025

So often in media (maybe especially horror and thrillers) they get diabetes very wrong, and it's obviously being utilized as a device to accelerate the plot/motivate characters. And they treat insulin as if it does the opposite and highs as if they were lows. Crafting for Sinners gets it right 💕

Ruth was constantly battling her blood sugar, especially when funds ran low and she had to ration her insulin--then her blood sugar would hover too high, and she'd drop weight rapidly. She'd become an expert at dosing, at rationing, at knowing the smallest amount she could inject without going into ketoacidosis and having to trek to the ER. High blood sugar wouldn't kill her—at least not imminently, not like the lows, She lived by the adage, the phrase drilled into her head by every doctor since diagnosis: better to be high than low. But sometimes she pushed it too far, even if out of necessity.

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Alice Scott @allyscottauthor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Boooooooks 👻 (AKA the “2/3 of my tbr was freebie audiobooks through work” month)

Several books spread out in a circle on top of a Halloween blanket lit from underneath. The books are:
Beautiful Brutal Bodies by Linda Cheng
And the River Drags her Down by Jihyun Yun
The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling
Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake
A Feast for the Eyes by Alex Crespo
Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer
The Devil she Knows by Alexandria Bellefleur
The Works of Vermjn by Hiron Ennes
When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Li
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews
The Sacred Space Between by Kalie Reid

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kikieatsbooks @kikieatsbooks.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Today’s book haul… including one non spooky season book that looked delightful. Also, Jaws is one of my favorite movies but I’ve never read the book, so… now I will! (Eventually maybe…) What are you reading for spooky season? #booksky #readersky

Photo of 6 books including A Girl Like Us by Anna Sophia McLouchlin, Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner, Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo, Jaws by Peter Benchley, If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura, and Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer

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Blue House Books @bluehousebooks.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

#NewReleaseTuesday on a Wednesday continues with >>> #booksky💙📚

A photo of a hand holding the book, "The Princess Knight" by Cait Jacobs in front of a book display.
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A princess desperate to win back the prince who broke her heart follows him to his kingdom's prestigious military academy—and in doing so, falls in love, saves the realm, and continues to look fabulous in this delightful debut fantasy.

Domhnall and Clía are an ideal match—or so everyone says. They are prince and princess of neighboring kingdoms. An alliance the gods will smile on. Until Domhnall ruins everything by refusing to propose.

Heartbroken but determined, Clía makes the perfect plan: Follow Domhnall to Caisleán Cósta, the military academy he’s attending. Show she can protect her kingdom. Secure the betrothal. Sure, the castle has a brutal reputation. But how hard can dueling really be?

Warrior Ronan promised himself he’d never lose his focus. He fought and sacrificed for his place at Caisleán Cósta, and he has no time for blonde princesses who waltz into arenas like they’re attending a ball. Even if she and her otter-like pet are…well, cute.

He doesn’t want to be intrigued by Clía. But her hunger to prove herself is something he understands. He tells himself there’s no harm training her. Even if his heart does race around her. Even if Domhnall is his best friend.

But as they say, love is a battlefield—and unfortunately for them all, a very real war is looming on the horizon. It’s a fight that will threaten all their kingdoms…and test all their hearts.

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This memoir is a celebration of Tim Curry's life’s work, and a testament to his profound impact on the entertainment industry as we know it today.

There are few stars in Hollywood today that can boast the kind of resume Tony award-nominated actor Tim Curry has built over the past five decades. From his breakout role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show to his iconic depiction as the sadistic clown Pennywise in It to his critically acclaimed role as the original King Arthur in both the Broadway and West End versions of Spamalot, Curry redefined what it meant to be a “character actor,” portraying heroes and villains alike with complexity, nuance, and a genuine understanding of human darkness.

Now, in his memoir, Curry takes readers behind-the-scenes of his rise to fame from his early beginnings as a military brat to his formative years in boarding school and university, to the moment when he hit the stage for the first time. He goes in-depth about what it was like to work on some of the most emblematic works of the 20th century, constantly switching between a camera and a live audience. He also explores the voicework that defined his later career and provided him with a chance to pivot after surviving a catastrophic stroke in 2012 that nearly took his life.

With the upcoming 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the 40th anniversary of Clue, there’s never been a better time for Tim to share his story with the world.

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Ruth is trapped. She’s stuck in her small, religious hometown of Kill Devil, Kentucky, stuck in the closet, and stuck living paycheck to paycheck. After her manager finds out that she lives with her girlfriend, Ruth is fired from her job at New Creations—a craft store owned by the church that dominates life in Kill Devil.

In an act of revenge, Ruth attempts to shoplift some yarn but is caught red-handed. Instead of calling the police, the employees lock her in the store—and attack her. As Ruth fights for her life using only the crafting supplies at hand, she plunges deeper into the tangled web of the New Creationists, who are hiding a terrible secret that threatens not only her but the entire town.

Urgent, scathing, and utterly original, Crafting for Sinners cements Kiefer’s status as a dazzling new star in horror.

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Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror

“A fantastical, brutal and thrilling triumph of the imagination...Clark’s combination of historical and political reimagining is cathartic, exhilarating and fresh.” —The New York Times

Named a Best of the Year Pick by NPR | Library Journal | Book Riot | LitReactor | Bustle | Polygon | Washington Post

IN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS.

In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.

Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan's demons straight to Hell. But something awful's brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up.

Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?

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Matt Ramsey @onenerdyopinion.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

October: Spooky Reading Month!!

@onenerdyopinion’s October 2025 Wrap-Up

Books: 37
Pages: 12,125

First Book: The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Middle Book: Three Miles Past by Stephen Graham Jones
Last Book: Joyland by Stephen King

Average Book Length: 327 pages
Average Time To Finish: 1 day

Pie chart: 100% fiction

Books by genre:
Horror: 36
Thriller: 10
Short Stories: 8
LGBTQIA+: 8
Classics: 4

Compared to September
Books: 16% Decrease
Pages: 4% Decrease

Line chart tracking pages per day: pretty steady range of 250-500 pages per day, with peaks of around 750 pages on the 1st & 16th.

Format Pie Chart: 84% Print, 14% Digital, 3% Audio

Collage of book covers containing:
The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
It by Stephen King
The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
What Moves The Dead by T Kingfisher
What Feasts At Night by T Kingfisher
What Stalks The Deep by T Kingfisher
Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi
Unusual Occurrences by Glenn Rolfe
Man, F*ck This House (And Other Disasters) by Brian Asman
The House Of Quiet by Kiersten White
Goblin by Josh Malerman
Dust Devils by Jonathan Janz
Ghoul by Brian Keene
Spread Me by Sarah Gailey
A Sliver Of Darkness by CJ Tudor
Sundial by Catriona Ward
Horseman by Christina Henry
Three Miles Padt by Stephen Graham Jones
The Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Itch! by Gemma Amor
The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher
Crafting For Sinners by Jenny Kiefer
The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi
Slewfoot by Brom
A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw
Stinetinglers by RL Stine
The Last House One Needless Street by Catriona Ward
A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
The Gathering by CJ Tudor
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Joyland by Stephen King

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Went on an absolute tear in the library & emerged with five books. I'm about to settle in with Mr. Moo, a bit of Malbec, and Jenny Kiefer's Crafting for Sinners... 🐈‍⬛🍷📚

I'm holding up the novel Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer. The center of the cover features an embroidery of praying hands with threads hanging down from the wrists (it's a real piece of embroidery art created by a friend of the author), and the title is written in red all-caps that look handwritten & a bit hectic, arched around the praying hands. Jenny Kiefer's name is in the same font but blue, across the bottom of the cover. In the background, an Xmas tree w/multicolored lights.

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screamiest of emos • rick @encryptedbygones.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I'm a day late again, but here is my digital book haul from last week. 📚💙 #BookSky #BookHaul #eBooks #Kobo

A digital library display showing eight book covers arranged in two rows of four. The top row features: The Lotus Empire (Book 3) by Tasha Suri (a cover with two figures in action against a red and orange background); Plus Size Player by Danielle Allen (a cover with a Black man in a suit embracing a Black woman in a dress); Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro 1 by Nanashi, Nanashi (a manga cover with a girl in a school uniform sitting and smiling); and Saturn (Book 4) by Ben Bova (a dark cover with a detailed image of a ship in space). The bottom row displays: Whispers Underground (Book 3) by Ben Aaronovitch (a cover featuring an overhead map of London with red lines); The White Dragon (Book 3) by Anne McCaffrey (a cover illustrating a large white dragon against a blue background); Antimatter Blues (Book 2) by Edward Ashton (a dark, futuristic cover with a character in a spacesuit on a rocky planet); and In the Labyrinth of Drakes (Book 4) by Marie Brennan (a cover featuring an orange-brown dragon standing near a smaller dragon).

A digital library display showing seven book covers across two rows. The top row features: Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty (a blue and red cover featuring a figure with large, round glasses); The Tropic of Serpents (Book 2) and Voyage of the Basilisk (Book 3), both by Marie Brennan, which feature illustrations of winged dragons; and Firebird by Juliette Cross (a dark cover with a woman in a red dress). The bottom row displays: Barnacle by Kate Elliott (a red cover with a silhouette of several flying crows); Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer (a cover with two hands clasped in a knitted, colorful, yarn-like style); and Full of Briars by Seanan McGuire (a cover featuring a man in a black shirt and jacket standing in a field).

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Devi @deviwestside.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

We all read such different genres that doing a book club would be impossible Here is my haul

A stack of books with a half Price books bag behind it. The books include:
Crafting For Sinners - Jenny Kiefer
Killer of the road / the babysitter lives - Stephen graham jones
My ex the antichrist - Craig D Louie
Just like mother - Anne heltzel
You weren’t meant to be human - Andrew Joseph White

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Working in publishing means reading out of time. I read a bunch of things that aren't out yet. And I read other great books that I either don't own because I got a galley or borrowed from the library etc. But because it's the end of the year, here's a selection of the best things I read in 2025:

Book stack(from top to bottom): Dear Stupid Penpal, Feeding the Wheel, Crafting for Sinners, Feast While You Can, Come Closer, Corpses, Fools, and Monsters, A Game in Yellow, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Angel Down, A Physical Education, We Love You, Bunny, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng.

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 31/12/2025

I want to read more outside of the horror genre in 2026 - looking for suggestions. Things I've liked that are not horror: Catch-22; Kurt Vonnegut; As I Lay Dying; magical realism; Lincoln in the Bardo; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; nonfic about genetics (more social than scientific)

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 30/12/2025

I was at a con with a confusing layout & was trying to find the room where a famous author (who is now known to be a bad person) was giving a talk. In trying to find the room, we spotted the famous author & followed them at a slight distance. I figured we'd either be led to the right place.

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Listened to the first two chapters so far of @jennykiefer.com 's THIS WRETCHED VALLEY. I love how the first chapter sets up a tantalizing mystery and loads of dramatic irony. Can't wait to dig in more! 💙📚 #horror

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 30/12/2025

If the only thing people remember about me is my love of possums, I'm fine with that. Thanks @authorplm.bsky.social for the long tailed addition to my army!

A pile of (stuffed) possums. There's a squishmallow, a crocheted screaming possum, the long tailed possum, a possum with fabulous eyeliner and a yellow bandana, and a giant possum stuffie

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Instead I have borrowed THIS WRETCHED VALLEY by @jennykiefer.com I already own it but I wanted the audio. This will be soothing (?) Whatever, I can't explain how my brain works 💙📚

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 20/12/2025

Not sure who needs to hear this, but spell check, using a search engine, speech to text, and using translation software like Google Translate are NOT generative AI/LLMs. They are just regular software. They do not *generate* anything.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

psst. hey. I know everything's on fire and social media is the worst place in the world. HOWEVER. I have great news:

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 27/11/2025

Can the lighting person from Ready or Not teach all the other modern horror filmmakers how to properly do nighttime lighting??? I can't see shit in a dark room

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🪱💀mindy💀🪱 [exorcism bondage era] @garbagesauce.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

new & restocked horror now available at b&n sioux falls!

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 15/11/2025

🎶bees in the trap, bees bees bees in the trap🎶

Nicolas Cage in a deleted scene from The Wickerman where his head was trapped in a cage with bees

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 14/11/2025

I both won and lost the Hayley Williams ticket war. I got tickets but accidentally on the same date as Independent Bookstore Day 🥲

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 10/11/2025

Starting to think only Kenneth Branaugh and I truly understand Victor Frankenstein

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 06/11/2025

Escape from Alcatraz (2025)

A beagle butt can be seen poking out of a hand-dug hole by said butt owner. The hole leads under a wooden fence at the property line. To the left of the beagle butt is a pile of chopped wood logs and to the right is a large ceramic planter, which blocks a small cut out in the fence.

Basically the same as the previous picture, sans beagle butt.

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alexis @storiesbyalexis.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

took a mini break after I finished my last two books, but now I'm diving into both A Short Stay in Hell and Crafting for Sinners :) #booksky #books #amreading #ashortstayinhell #craftingforsinners @jennykiefer.com

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snow @atypicalsnowman.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Been looking forward to this all year. @jennykiefer.com

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 26/10/2025

Life would be so much easier if I were stupid

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 22/10/2025

A CURSE UPON THE HOUSE OF THE RECIPE WRITER WHO MADE ME WASTE 4 EGGS BY SAYING I COULD MAKE FRIED RICE WITH FRESH RICE

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