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Jenny Kiefer

@jennykiefer.com

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Horror writer and owner of Butcher Cabin Books in Louisville, Kentucky. Author of THIS WRETCHED VALLEY & CRAFTING FOR SINNERS (Oct 25). Bram Stoker Nominee. Fuck fascists & AI

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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.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 05/08/2026

I have a gif for this

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

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

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

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.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 13/10/2025

Someone tell me what this means

A pair of blue socks that read "in dog years I'm gay"

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 13/10/2025

Soon

A picture of Powell's Books in Portland OR. The marquee says "Jenny Kiefer 10/12"

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 08/10/2025

PUB DAY POSSUM

A possum in a tree

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 03/09/2025

Yesterday Rabbit (the dog) brought a friend inside

A small possum placed on a plush faux fur dog bed. The possum has some chewed fig in its mouth.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 02/09/2025

In a different context perhaps @claymcleod.bsky.social

A picture of a page from KILL YOUR DARLING by Clay McLeod Chapman that reads:

A pummeled orange.
Is this what you want to see?

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 17/08/2025

Our tomatoes suck but our fig trees are overproducing. I picked over 6 pounds today alone and made fig jam.

About 7 pints of canned fig jam

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 16/08/2025

I made a similar sweater for it!

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Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 12/07/2025

My two spooky book tattoos

A tattoo for This Wretched Valley: a ribcage, spine, and pelvic part of a skeleton with poisonous plants inside the bones.

A tattoo for Crafting for Sinners. A pair of pink knitting needles with a small bit of knitting with a purple and blue stripe. One of the needles impales an eyeball, which has an optic nerve attached

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 29/06/2025

100 days til Crafting for Sinners!!!

A final copy of CRAFTING FOR SINNERS

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 29/06/2025

Kinda regret not buying Jasper Cullen at the farmers market today

A doll on a stand. It holds a baseball bat and wears a green, white, and blue baseball uniform and cap. It has curly blonde hair, pale skin, and a wide eyed state. Its skin is hard like stone

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 28/06/2025

I'm front and center at the PRH booth at ALA!!!!

A larger banner at the PRH booth at the ALA conference advertising Crafting for Sinners next to Margaret Atwood's memoir.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 15/06/2025

I wish these two guys were here with me

Rye and Rabbit the beagles

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 25/05/2025

For the first time ever I bought exactly the right number of skeins. This is all I have leftover

About a third of a skein of yarn

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 22/05/2025

Finally framed my Stoker nominee certificate. Finding a non 8x10 frame is hard

The nominee certificate for This Wretched Valley in a gold frame on a green wall surrounded by other art

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 21/05/2025

Rye and Rabbit

Two copper beagles sitting on a white chair

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 27/04/2025

This one got run through the embossing machine backwards

A copy of Eric LaRocca's This Skin Was Once Mine with the blurb embossing on the cover.

The cover embossing is on the back

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 27/04/2025

Obsessed with the aesthetics of this online order

An online order consisting of Freakslaw by Jane Flett, an orange hair clip that says "feral" in teal rhinestones, and a glittery sticker that says "Fueled by Spite"

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 27/04/2025

Um omg???? rue-morgue.com/exclusive-in...

Screenshot from an interview.

Q: So, what is Nick Cutter currently reading and what should people be reading?

A: I just finished reading and writing a blurb for Crafting for Sinners. It's Jenny Kiefer's follow up to This Wretched Valley. I really enjoyed it, and I think it's going to do well.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 25/04/2025

The mail has been exciting this week

A 2024 Bram Stoker Award Finalist certificate for This Wretched Valley and a box of ARCs of Crafting for Sinners

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 20/04/2025

I regret not adopting this thing at the thrift store today

A peculiar statue about 12 inches long depicting a creature that's best described as a cross between a tadpole and a puppy. It is light brown with a white belly, laying on its back. It's face is a basic dog with a gill on its chin and gills for floppy dog ears. The paws are webbed and duck like, but have black nails like a dog. The tail resembles that of a tadpole. Google Reverse image search did not provide any answers as to its origins or why I left him behind.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 18/04/2025

yes, apparently. sometimes i text back using a text glitch creator

from me: ÿ̶̡́̂͝ë̷̜́̿ś̸̗̓̊ ̷̝̝͖͗͘i̶̛̺͑ ̶͕̝͝a̶͉̪͛m̷̰̄̃̚ ̷͕̮͌͜f̵̧̃ͅì̶̳͈̚n̵̯͆ẻ̵͍̹͛̓ͅ

from them: 😟

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 18/04/2025

the number is: five oh two seven five five six three eight one

"Hi is this Kentucky fried chicky"

"Imagine being lost and dead"

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 18/04/2025

i set up a hotline that you can actually call (and text) for wretched valley and these are some of the funniest texts

"Are you ok and are you dead"

"Go away"
"Please"
"Praise the lord 🙌 🙏 👏 ✨️ ❤️ 😌 jesus 🙏 🙌"

"Hello"
"Hello?"
"WHAT'S YOUR NAME?"
"TALK!"
"MONSTER"
"💀💀💀"
"Fake monster"

"Bro I didnt do shit you can shup the fuck up got it, that shit said was ethan I had no part so stop the fucking drama with me."

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 08/04/2025

I recreated my cover crochet art

Crochet art of praying hands with rainbow nails on a wooden background with loose strands of yarn poking out

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 08/04/2025

Rabbit enjoying the Kentucky monsoon

Rabbit the Dog doesn't quite know how all that mud got on his face.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 06/04/2025

The answer was right above you!

A couple of stacked skeets, one by Alt National Park Service reading: "yesterday was incredible. The official count is in - 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what's next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest."

Then, beneath it, K. Winkler asks: "When's the next protest?"

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 06/04/2025

cover reveal means memes, preorder it now from @horrorbookstore.bsky.social to get a signed copy

In a definitely not doctored* image, an actor whose name I don't know holds a copy of CRAFTING FOR SINNERS with the text "everybody so excited about sinners coming out"

*In addition to this photo definitely not being doctored, the sinners he refers to is definitely CRAFTING FOR SINNERS and not a movie with a similar title

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 31/03/2025

more proof i am secretly taylor swift

A screenshot of the Goodreads page for This Wretched Valley, showing that it has 1989 reviews

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 28/03/2025

Crafting for Sinners... THE SWEATER

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 23/03/2025

Wretched Valley (2024)

Screenshot of a Tumblr post of unknown date by user dajo42 that reads:

i see trees of green
green trees there too
i see the trees
and they are green
and i think to myself
i am lost in these woods

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 21/03/2025

CRAFTING FOR SINNERS releases October 7! Pre-order a signed copy here: www.horrorbookstore.com/product/craf...

The cover for CRAFTING FOR SINNERS, featuring hand-crocheted art

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 20/03/2025

I can now share the cover for CRAFTING FOR SINNERS, in which Quirk Books said Fuck AI and commissioned a real life crochet art piece

The cover for CRAFTING FOR SINNERS. Crochet art in the center: a pair of hands in the prayer motion with rainbow colored nails and strands of yarn hanging below.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 24/02/2025

Eric, I'm so honored you wrote a story about my puppy

Rabbit the beagle mix puppy does what he loves. Licking. Also his ears are all funny

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 23/02/2025

I AM A BRAM STOKER NOMINEE!!! 😭

The Nominees for the Superior Achievement in First Novel category for the 2025 Stoker Awards.

Donyae Coles - Midnight Rooms (Amistad)

Jessica Drake-Thomas - Hollow Girls (Cemetery Dance Publications)

Jenny Kiefer - This Wretched Valley (Quirk Books)

Monika Kim - The Eyes are the Best Part (Erewhon Books)

Lindy Ryan - Bless Your Heart (Minotaur Books)

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 20/02/2025

The wildest purchase I'll write off on my taxes

A Tamagotchi toy, purchased in 2025 for research purposes.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 18/02/2025

Czech translation of WRETCHED VALLEY and proofs of CRAFTING FOR SINNERS have arrived!

A copy of the Czech translation of THIS WRETCHED VALLEY (V Prokletém Údolí) and a bound proof of CRAFTING FOR SINNERS

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 17/02/2025

Maybe someday I'll stop randomly thinking about Reese and then crying

The best boy, a beagle whose face is white with age, snuggled in his dad's arms

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 16/02/2025

How about a beagle mix puppy snoozing on a giant possum pillow?

A beagle mix puppy snoozing on a giant possum pillow

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 10/02/2025

@joshuathehull.bsky.social call me or the book gets it

A terrifying beagle puppy is ready to eat 8114 by Joshua Hull.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 09/02/2025

5. The Z-Word by @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social

The cover of The Z-Word by Lindsay King-Miller

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 05/02/2025

Apparently you can already pre-order CRAFTING FOR SINNERS, and you can get it 25% off from B&N today through Friday

Promo image for Barnes & Noble pre-order offer. Barnes & Noble Rewards members get 25% off! Barnes & Noble Premium members get 25% + an additional 10% off print books! Use coupon code PREORDER25 at checkout.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 01/02/2025

Liz Lemon: We sure had quite a year.

Donaughy: What are you talking about? It's May.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 01/02/2025

This is neat 🙂

The Superior Achievement in First Novel for the Bram Stoker Awards 2025. The list, which are not considered Nominees, include This Wretched Valley alongside Smothermoss, Midnight Rooms, Hollow Girls, Grey Dog, The Invisible Hotel, The Eyes Are the Best Part, Bless Your Heart, The Cursed House, and My Darling Dreadful Thing.

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · 29/01/2025

4. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot