Subject: 🔮 Exciting news from Jennifer Blackstream! 🕵️‍♀️

Cover reveal and more!

Cover Reveal!


Cover Art: Skinned, Blood Trails #16. Shade stands in front of an eerie marketplace full of animal skins.


SKINNED, Blood Trails #16

Coming May 7, 2024


Being at the mercy of someone you’ve wronged is never good.


When they’ve had a hundred years to plan their revenge, it’s worse.


Scath is serving her first weregild, and to fulfill her duty, she’ll have to enter the world of muleskinners—skinwalker-adjacent magic users who rely on enchanted animal skins to access their magic. Two of them have been killed and their enchanted skins stolen within the past week, and the primal sidhe lord Baine has set Scath the task of finding the killer—with a few special conditions.


Condition one: no contacting the authorities. No Vanguard, no queen, no cops…and no Detective Sergeant Liam Osbourne.


Condition two: Scath is to hand over the killer—and the missing skins—to him.


Shade’s not about to let Scath face the weregild alone. Together they proceed with the investigation, each of them bracing themselves for the worst.


And both of them shocked when they find it.


Preorder Direct:


When you buy direct, you get the book a week early!

May 7th: Release day if you buy direct! Preorders will go live for other retailers on this day.

May 14th: Release day for Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Apple Books, Google Play, and Kobo.

Are you all caught up?


An image of all the Blood Trails books so far, all the way up to #15, Guilt.

Who is this weird woman who writes such books?


So my daughter (9) went to a friend's birthday party this weekend. When I went to pick her up, I saw this beauty:

A hold in the ground, about chest deep for a nine year old.

I would have KILLED for a hole like this when I was their age! That sucker is chest-deep for a nine year old. Omg, the possibilities are endless. The hiding, the finding of rocks, the digging, the sifting dirt to make really smooth mud pies... Gah, I'm so jealous.


Then I got home and I thought to myself...Jennifer, you're 42. You could dig a hole in your backyard if you wanted to.


And for a second, I was really excited. I could already feel the shovel in my hand. I could hear myself explaining to my fiance why there was a hole in the yard that might at first glance be mistaken for a grave...


Then I remembered we have a very enthusiastic pit bull who would doubtlessly injure himself if he were to go frolicking in the yard, unaware that there was a new hole.


Not to mention there's a better than average chance I'd go out to find I'd inadvertently trapped a bear. Or a mountain lion.


Sigh. Someday.

April Survey: Can you handle character death?


When I read books, whether it's urban fantasy or otherwise, I tend to avoid series that include character deaths. I read to escape, and I don't want to invest emotionally in characters when I think there's a good chance they're going to be bumped off. I also try to end my books on a happy note so my readers feel good when they finish it.


My fiance, Jim Butcher, takes a different view. He says that character deaths are powerful storytelling tools because if no one ever dies, then the danger never feels real to the reader because they know everything is going to be all right. He says readers want to be invested, they want to feel BIG EMOTIONS, and part of that is making sure the stakes are real.


So tell me what you think.

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