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Crochet Garden Flags

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Just thought I would share a crochet project I recently finished! I love seahorses. If you know, you know. And I also love yarnbombing, or at least the IDEA of yarn bombing, because a true yarnbombing takes afghan sized creations to be as impressive as I would want to be.

So I got the idea to make my own garden flags. Cheap acrylic yarn holds up to all sorts of weather. It does eventually fade but it’s so easy to make flags that you can just make another.

Here is the one I just put up for Valentine’s Day right before the 2026 ice storm hit my area:

a bright blue crochet rectangle with tabs at the top in the shape of a garden flag and on it is a bright pink seahorse figure with a few pink hearts and in the background is a random brick house and rocks and plants

Here is a close up version. The eyeball is a white button with 4 holes and a little black button with only two holes sewn on top of it.

a bright blue crochet rectangle with tabs at the top in the shape of a garden flag and on it is a bright pink seahorse figure with a few pink hearts and in the background is a random brick house and rocks and plants

How about you? Do you love the idea of yarn bombing but you’re too lazy to do a full bomb???

Jody W & Meankitty

You Can Find Out Who Did It

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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

Paper: archaic or useful?

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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!

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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

New Home Who Dis?

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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

Nobody Loves You, Baby

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Or no cats, anyway.

Here’s your writer prompt for this week! It’s a contrast to last week’s prompt, so those stories might make a fun parallel.

Everytime you go to the cat cafe, the cats hiss at you and run away

So what is it about you that makes this happen? It surely isn’t as simple as “you smell like dog” because cats are more discerning than that…

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

These Kittens Look Familiar

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Sharing another catty writer prompt today, and I think you’ll agree these kittens look familiar. How do you suppose THIS happened?

A basket of kittens, these kittens look familiar
You open your shirt drawer. Inside it, a cat you don’t recognize has had kittens. The kittens look JUST like your tomcat.

One possibility. Your tomcat let his girlfriend in through the cat door. Another possibility. Your tomcat and his girlfriend are shapeshifters. Another possibility. Grey tabbies are really common and your tomcat had nothing to do with this. Another possibility. They aren’t actually cats but instead are sentient alien beings.

What’s your possibility?

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