Jen Karner
@articulatedream.bsky.social
Award Winning Author of queer horror & fantasy || Feral forest queer & book gremlin || Probably a crow in cosplay || Bone enthusiast, spooky bitch, and feminist banshee || she/they || JenKarner.carrd.co
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Jen Karner
@articulatedream.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Jen Karner | @Articulatedream
Award-winning author of Cinders of Yesterday.
JenKarner.carrd.co
There's a bunch of new folks so
Hey I'm Jen & I write queer SFF & Horror. I write about sapphic babes who flirt with sarcasm & knives and are bad at feelings.
I publish in different places but you can find my work here:
JenKarner.carrd.co
Hey I'm Jen & I write queer SFF & Horror. I write about sapphic babes who flirt with sarcasm & knives and are bad at feelings.
I publish in different places but you can find my work here:
JenKarner.carrd.co
My test prints showed up AND THEYRE PERFECT
October 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
My test prints showed up AND THEYRE PERFECT
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.
Snag the new cover on sale all month long using the spooky sale section of the link in my bio.
October 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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.
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.
I just hope my readers love it as much as I do.
October 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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.
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.
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.
September 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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.
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.
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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
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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!
September 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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!
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.
Next Book: A pack of traumatized 20-somethings fight back against property development & god.
September 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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.
Next Book: A pack of traumatized 20-somethings fight back against property development & god.
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.
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.
September 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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.
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.
5 chapters to go, and then I can shoot this baby off to beta readers and sleep for a week.
September 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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.
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.
Was it technically supposed to be part of the last chapter...so I still have 7 to go? Also yes.
August 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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.
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
I mean, how could I not hang out in it immediately? IM WEAK
August 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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
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.
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.
August 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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.
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.
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.
August 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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.
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.
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*
"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*
August 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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*
"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*
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!
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!
August 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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!
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.
alright you drama hounds, here's my statement on the #ouac shit show. if you derive any pleasure or schadenfreude from this, you are contractually obligated to buy one of my books. that's the rule! www.tdcloudofficial.com/post/once-up...
Once Upon a Con - A Statement
So. Once Upon a Con… happened. Let’s talk about that.Gonna preface this with a big fat disclaimer that every author/vendor I spoke to agreed that we were very well insulated from the bulk of the bulls...
www.tdcloudofficial.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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
I'm SO tired of never getting ahead, and instead getting shafted every time I think I've made progress
August 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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
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...
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...
August 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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...
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...
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.
I'm fine. This is fine. I'm definitely not running on adrenaline and excitement.
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.
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August 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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.
I'm fine. This is fine. I'm definitely not running on adrenaline and excitement.
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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
August 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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
Once Upon a Con is nearly here! If you're making the trip, swing by my booth and say hi, or find me at one of these panels!
August 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Once Upon a Con is nearly here! If you're making the trip, swing by my booth and say hi, or find me at one of these panels!
Finished another chapter. 9 to go.
This may end up being my longest novel yet.
This may end up being my longest novel yet.
August 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Finished another chapter. 9 to go.
This may end up being my longest novel yet.
This may end up being my longest novel yet.
Knocked my writing goal on Sins of Survival out in 2 days this week. That's the good stuff fam.
July 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Knocked my writing goal on Sins of Survival out in 2 days this week. That's the good stuff fam.
I think I just found my editor for SINS OF SURVIVAL which means I have just over 30 days to finish this book and send it off to beta readers.
I've been working on Sins since 2021 and she's almost ready to be seen.
I'll be doing panic circles in the hallway while I realize how close I am.
I've been working on Sins since 2021 and she's almost ready to be seen.
I'll be doing panic circles in the hallway while I realize how close I am.
July 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I think I just found my editor for SINS OF SURVIVAL which means I have just over 30 days to finish this book and send it off to beta readers.
I've been working on Sins since 2021 and she's almost ready to be seen.
I'll be doing panic circles in the hallway while I realize how close I am.
I've been working on Sins since 2021 and she's almost ready to be seen.
I'll be doing panic circles in the hallway while I realize how close I am.
New stickers have arrived!! I'll have these at my booth at OUAC and then available thru my shop fronts afterwards.
July 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
New stickers have arrived!! I'll have these at my booth at OUAC and then available thru my shop fronts afterwards.