Jen Karner

The cover of Sins of Survival shows Dani Black in the foreground holding a glowing knife, and Emilie Lockgrove looking over her shoulder in the background with her finger to her lips. They are lit in an eerie green glow, and shadows reach for them both.

ARC Call! (Link is in my bio) for Sins of Survival!

Dani & Emilie return to take on anti-magic hunťers looking to eliminate anyone with magic, a monster from beyond the land of the living, and a tear in the veil between the living and the dead in book 2 of the Legacy of Shadows series.

Glowing words read FUCK ICE. In the background it reads Fight Fascism. The bottom has a link to standwithminnesota.com

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Im here less than I used to be but in case you weren’t sure where I stand.

Fuck ICE.
Fight fascism.

Oh hey IM IN WRITERS DIGEST MAGAZINE!!!
*flails and falls over*
Ty again @moriahrichard.bsky.social this was so fun.

It's time to clean my whiteboard off and start working on the next book. We're going from "lesbians trying to stitch a hole in the world" to "feral teens fight a god" and I'm not mad.

Dani black stands to the left. She has long wavy dark hair, tanned skin and a leather jacket. Emilie Lockgrove stands to the right with short curly hair, blue eyes and her fist under her chin. In the backgrounds spectral hands reach for both of them.

I got new art of my favorite disaster lesbians.
Dani "Can I just stab it" Black and Emilie "I'd rather be in the library" Lockgrove return for their next adventure on April 7, 2026!

Jen holds up copies of Cinders of Yesterday with the new cover.

My test prints showed up AND THEYRE PERFECT

The new cover of Cinders of Yesterday is shown. Emilie (blonde, curly hair) is on the left leaning against Dani (long black wavy hair, leather jacket, holding a glowing blade). Around them a fire rages. The top reads "Jen Karner", middle text reads "Cinders of Yesterday" and at the bottom "Legacy of Shadows Book 1"

It's cover reveal day so I got u dis.
Snag the new cover on sale all month long using the spooky sale section of the link in my bio.

The new cover for Cinders of Yesterday drops tomorrow on IG at 10am and I am VIBRATING with excitement.

I just hope my readers love it as much as I do.

Frightreads was an excellent event for me this weekend, along with getting some critiques on my YA Horror novel HALLOWED GROUND from @futurescapesww.bsky.social

Now I get to recover for a day or two before I start my revision plan, but my cup is full and I am exhausted and happy.

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

It's @pitchdis.com day! I don't have a book that's ready so I'm sitting this one out, but if you're eligible, throw your pitch into the ring!

idk if I so much have an author "brand" as I write people who are fighting back against things larger than them with every tool in their disposal.

After all, a creature backed into a corner will fight to survive, any way it can.

Last book: A hunter & a medium take down a paramilitary operation attempting to "cleanse" magical people and discover a parasite manipulating hundreds of people in the process. [SINS OF SURVIVAL]

Next Book: A pack of traumatized 20-somethings fight back against property development & god.

I'm aware. Trust.

I'm on strict "not allowed to work on a book" rest for at least a week.
I am prepping for Frightreads & Futurescapes, but the workload is V different and my usual writing hours are now "vibing to video games" hours.

Thanks!!

After several years of being stuck and then unstuck, and 9-10 months of drafting, Sins of Survival is done...for now.

It goes out to my team later this week, and the editor in November and I'm so excited but also absolutely exhausted.

I would like to order 1 3-day coma plz.

Put on Jurassic Park for drafting background noise, and knocked out an almost 2k chapter in just over an hour.

5 chapters to go, and then I can shoot this baby off to beta readers and sleep for a week.

Did I write a new chapter? yes
Was it technically supposed to be part of the last chapter...so I still have 7 to go? Also yes.

Acquired a new dope orange cardigan so OBV I'm curled up in it tonight while I draft.

I mean, how could I not hang out in it immediately? IM WEAK

7 chapters to go and I'm supposed to go to the beach this weekend, which means spending half of my night prepping for that.

I'm gonna squeeze in writing time this weekend if I have to go hide under a bed and type under the covers I swear.

Broke the 80k mark on Sins of Survival last night.
I haven't been this deep into a draft since spring of 2021.
I started writing Sins in early 2021, and since then it has been a singular obsession that has haunted my time.
In November it goes to the editor.
2026 release, here I come.

Cinders of Yesterday is shown to the left. On the right is a list of tropes: F/F, southern gothic, haunted bloodlines, monster hunter, hunter/witch, found family, slow burn Under it reads: Cinders of Yesterday, available now in digital, paperback and audio, JenKarner.carrd.co

Devolved to the point where I feel like a shady book dealer standing in the alley with a trench coat like.

"Hey kid, you want some queer urban fantasy? I've got hunters, witches, and flirting with knives in haunted houses."

*flashes open coat to reveal Cinders of Yesterday*

For the time being I'm only doing US events bc I'm looking for things that are within 5 hrs drive time of Baltimore City.

Okay friends. Events with author alley, bookish selling events, cons, book fests.

Which ones do you know of that I should know about? I have a handful on my schedule but I wanna diversify, and could use 8-10 more each year.

If you know of a great event [east coast preferred] LMK below!

Migi has their post on OUAC out. Mine will be coming later this week, including deets about the Discord, doubloons, staff bailing, and more bc I am neurotic and watched everything begin to slow-mo explode in real time.

Today was exhausting and almost my *entire* take from OUAC just had to go towards a new laptop bc my PC was having so many issues today I had to leave work early and have a panic attack about it.

I'm SO tired of never getting ahead, and instead getting shafted every time I think I've made progress

Home from Once Upon a Con, and while I'll have things to talk about later it was a decent con for me.

I got to meet readers, sold some books, and got to run panels for the first time.

Imma need moar bookish events in my future...

a woman is sitting on a couch with her hand on her head Alt: a woman is sitting on a couch and waving hands at her face to cool down.

Packing the car for Once Upon a Con, and yall I spent 10 mins desperately running thru the house looking for my author banners before I found them in the bedroom.

I'm fine. This is fine. I'm definitely not running on adrenaline and excitement.

A map of the author alley of Once Upon A Con arranged in black rectangles with grey text on top of a grey damask background. The text reads "Map of Queer + Gothic Lit Authors" and is framed by two red roses. The tables highlighted in red are H11, H20, I6, and K20. The books and authors featured are MERCY by Ian Haramaki, OSSUARY by T.D. Cloud, CINDER YESTERDAY by Jen Karner, and THE FEALTY OF MONSTERS by Ladz.

Also! Doing a bit of a rally this weekend at Once Upon A Con for the queer + gothic lit authors in the author alley! If you purchase from any of us this weekend, you'll earn a coupon for the other tables 💖 It'll be me, @ladzwriting.bsky.social, @tdcloud.bsky.social, and @articulatedream.bsky.social