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You Can Find Out Who Did It

In my SFR whodunit with mind reading talking cats, you can find out who did it! How? One easy method. Buy the book and read it! Catagenesis on sale now.

https://www.jodywallace.com/books/catagenesis/

Why can’t mind reading cats figure out who’s doing it any faster than a 110,000 word book? It’s a mystery. I mean, literally, it’s a mystery novel. As to what they’re doing instead…

Catagenesis, now on sale, is about mind reading cats who may or may not bother to help the humans stop a serial killer.
Wow, those cats really aren’t much help, are they!

Jody Wallace’s 30+ titles in sf/f and contemporary romance feature diverse protagonists, action, adventure, and plenty of cats. Visit her at www.jodywallace.com and the cats at www.meankitty.com

Still have a few ARCs…

Anybody like to review SFRs? I have a few ARCs of CATAGENESIS left to share if you have a proven track record of actually posting reviews OR we already know each other. How about it? Reviews can be short, a paragraph explaining why’d you’d recommend, are ambivalent about, or did not like the book in question — and I’m not the kind of author who’ll get ticked at you if you don’t give me 5 stars A+++. What kind of asshole does that?? But seriously.

Email me if you’d like to apply to be on my ARC team!

cover for catagenesis is a lady in a black futuristic style suit and a siamese cat in a blue spaceship background.

Here is a short blurb that a helpful cyber denizen helped me with, as opposed to the long one on the book page you can see if you click the cover.

Two humans, a bunch of cats, a space ship … and murder.

Until a talking cat interrupted a business meeting, Han-Ja Gee thought he knew everything. He made a living selling information and secrets to almost anyone willing to pay. If he could discover how talking cats actually exist, he could pay off the life-debt he owes and leave Trash Planet forever.

On a generation ship whose passengers woke up two thousand years late—and whose cats became sentient—Farah Shine Collins struggles to adjust. When she is asked to partner with a local citizen from the current century in solving a murder on board the ship, she knows it will be trouble. 

Han-Ja dreamt of escape and Farah dreamt of a place to call home. Neither expected to fall in love. If they cannot stop the killer, the collateral damage will be more than their hopes and dreams. It will be their lives.

Thanks again to Aysha for helping me gain more perspective on revising my book blurb! Be sure to ask me about the Catagenesis ARCs today.


Jody Wallace’s 30+ titles in sf/f and contemporary romance feature diverse protagonists, action, adventure, and plenty of cats. Visit her at www.jodywallace.com and the cats at www.meankitty.com

Paper: archaic or useful?

Who still reads paperbacks?

I ask because most of my books aren’t in paperback and I’m trying to decide if I should remedy that. So I made a poll! You can elaborate in the comments.

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Jody Wallace’s 30+ titles in sf/f and contemporary romance feature diverse protagonists, action, adventure, and plenty of cats. Visit her at www.jodywallace.com and the cats at www.meankitty.com

Free Books!

Friends.

In honor of summer and it being too hot here in TN to reasonably go outside, I am setting several of my series starters to “free” for a couple months.

You’ll have to track down which ones, though :). I don’t know if Amazon will comply, either. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions!

Here is a cat who is free of concerns:

A ginger tabby curled up to advertise free science fiction and other romances

Jody Wallace’s 30+ titles in sf/f and contemporary romance feature diverse protagonists, action, adventure, and plenty of cats. Visit her at www.jodywallace.com and the cats at www.meankitty.com

Holiday Short Story for Free

In my most recent newsletter, I updated my subscribers about my audiobook news, some releases in Magic, New Mexico, and included a free holiday short story! To encourage more folks to sign up for the newsletter, I will include the first page of the story here and then the sign up link. So if you sign up — let me know and I’ll make sure you get the whole story! I love having subscribers — it’s like I have friends I email every month, ha. (Please note that I email my friends a lot, too, and in fact they get real sick of texts about cat vomit and why am I so tired.)

New Year’s Magic, by Jody Wallace

At precisely 12:00 am on New Year’s Day, when he came at her for a celebratory kiss, Ana’s date turned into a pumpkin.

“Crap!” Ana snatched up the large gourd before any of her fellow revelers smashed it. The residual effects of the spell should prevent bystanders from noticing the transmogrification, but the spell to change Jimmy back into the human he’d been ten seconds ago wouldn’t work on pumpkin pulp.

a crochet cat butt on a pumpkin
A pumpkin…and a cat butt!

She was going to kill that damn cat. This time, she was really going to do it.

Leading with the pumpkin, she pushed free of the throng. Confetti and balloons drifted from the ceiling as the crowd broke into a drunken rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Her stilettos pinched her toes with every stomp.

Not that the date had been going fabulously—it was hard for a sorceress to relax with a normie, even one as cute as Jimmy—but she’d been dateless for too long. The last man who’d truly interested her… Well, the less said about him the better.

Except she’d be saying a lot of things to him here in about twenty minutes. Threatening things.

MEankitty Publishing logo on here for a free holiday short story

What do you think happens next? Want to find out? Go here to sign up for my newsletter. It comes out about once a month and always, always has gratuitous cat.


Jody Wallace’s 30+ titles in sf/f and contemporary romance feature diverse protagonists, action, adventure, and plenty of cats. Visit her at www.jodywallace.com and the cats at www.meankitty.com

Talking to Cats

Did you ever wish you could talk to your cats, find out why they are stalking around the house at 3 am and howling? Or staring at the wall with an eerie, fixed concentration? Today’s writer prompt brings that fantasy to life. Sort of. How do you imagine this scene would go? What would happen next?

We’d love to see what you come up with!

A picture of a cat upside down and cute. The prompt is that you realize you are talking to cats.

We’d love to see what you come up with in regards to talking to cats! Drop me an email and we can share your efforts with everyone else in the newsletter!



The cover for blue guard by jody wallace on a fancy blended blue background

Jody Wallace’s 30+ titles in sf/f and contemporary romance feature diverse protagonists, action, adventure, and plenty of cats. Visit her at www.jodywallace.com and the cats at www.meankitty.com

New Home Who Dis?

Many of us have the experience of moving into a new house, apartment, condo, or what have you and finding unexpected difficulties or bonuses about the new place. But what if your cat is the one who finds the bonus? And is it really a bonus? Can you tell me what’s going on here?

The cat finds a hole in the basement of your new house that leads to a secret room. catty writer prompt
Whither dost this tunnel lead?

You can check out my Twitter feed for a new catty writer prompt every Wednesday! https://twitter.com/jodywallace or check out the feed of them on the blog at https://www.jodywallace.com/category/catty-writer-prompts/


Jody Wallace’s 30+ titles in sf/f and contemporary romance feature diverse protagonists, action, adventure, and plenty of cats. Visit her at www.jodywallace.com and the cats at www.meankitty.com

Your Choice, Our Books

How’d you like to get 30 something fantastic books in exchange for something you might want to do anyway? SILVER BOUND and SILVER UNLEASHED by me and my writing partner DB Sieders are part of the Romance for Roe anthology where you get your choice, our books.

The cover for the Romance for Roe anthology

The anthology includes our two paranormal romances plus so much more! You can find all the instructions for the very simple exchange here: https://romanceforroe.com/

This anthology is only available for a limited time! As are, possibly, freedom of choice and the right to decide whether you want to bear a child. Obviously the second is more important than the first, but the first will help out with the second in a small way.


The cover for blue guard by jody wallace on a fancy blended blue background

Jody Wallace’s 30+ titles in sf/f and contemporary romance feature diverse protagonists, action, adventure, and plenty of cats. Visit her at www.jodywallace.com and the cats at www.meankitty.com