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Jenny Kiefer

@jennykiefer.com

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 · 3mo ago

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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Jenny Kiefer@jennykiefer.com · 6mo ago

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 🤷‍♀️

Dan Wawrzonek@dmwawrzonek.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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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Matt Ramsey@onenerdyopinion.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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

K Lucian Jones (Kit)@spideyj.com · 9mo ago

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.
Becky D@bexrousse.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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.
Emma Cole@editrixemma.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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.
Jenny Kiefer@jennykiefer.com · 7mo ago

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)

Jenny Kiefer@jennykiefer.com · 7mo ago

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.

Blunderbolt@bolt451.bsky.social · last yr.

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction