About the Author

Jody Wallace grew up in the South in a very rural area.  She went to school a long time because she couldn't find a job and ended up with a Master's Degree in Creative Writing.  Her resume includes college English instructor, technical documents editor, market analyst, web designer, and general all around pain in the butt.  She currently lives in Tennessee with her wonderful family: her amazingly tolerant husband and amazingly intelligent children.  One of her many alter egos is "The Grammar Wench", which should give you an indication of her character.  She is a terrible packrat and likes to amass vintage clothing, books, Asian-inspired kitchenware, gnomes, and other items that threaten to force her family out of the house. She also likes cats.  A lot. 

Ms. Wallace's approach to writing is to tell as many outlandish lies as she can get her readers to swallow.  Her dream is to be moderately well-paid for this service.  She does not believe her characters "talk" to her or "take over" when she is writing their stories, but she does revise a lot and sometimes plots ahead. When her stories end up being spicier than the norm, she publishes them as Ellie Marvel.

Ms. Wallace is active in RWA, serves as webmaster for her local RWA chapter as well as VP, and conducts training sessions for contest judges.  Her photo was taken by Rebecca Walk of Rebecca Walk photography in Nashville, TN.

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Ms. Wallace's schedule of appearances, chats & interviews is here. 
Sign up for Ms. Wallace's newsletter which releases once every two months at YahooGroups.
You can read a blog of Ms. Wallace's path to fame and fortune (helmed by her cat) here.
Ms. Wallace participates in a group blog for humorous speculative fiction writers called The Otherworld Diner.
Because one isn't enough, she also participates in a blog for Samhain's paranormal authors called Beyond the Veil.
She caved to peer pressure and MySpaced here: http://www.myspace.com/meanwallace

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