Jody Wallace


Biography

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. Ms. Wallace is published in romance fiction under the names Jody Wallace and Ellie Marvel. She has always lived with cats, and they have always been mean.

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Books

A Mage by Any Other Name    by Jody Wallace
Price: $2.99 USD. 26670 words. Published on March 31, 2012. Fiction.

Mary's new job with Wizard Williwim is perfect. She can remain incognito while building a name for herself, a foundation of the respect and approval she yearns for. Why else does she have this magic, if she can't use it to help the kingdom? But Mary’s path has never been simple. After only a month, an enemy from her past reappears to endanger everything she's working toward...including her life.
The Worst Christmas    by Jody Wallace
Price: $0.99 USD. 9310 words. Published on December 15, 2011. Fiction.

Winifred Sampson can't believe Peter Duvall ruined her new cashmere sweater at the honor society banquet and her secret crush, quarterback Chase McKnight, saw the whole thing. When an ice storm hits Tallwood, Tennessee, for Christmas, will Peter somehow ruin her Christmas too? Or is Mother Nature evil enough without Peter's help? This YA short story is about 9000 words long.
A Wintertide Spell    by Jody Wallace
Price: $0.99 USD. 7710 words. Published on November 16, 2011. Fiction.

If the King is fated to love thirteen women before he turns fifty, is he still husband material? One cold, snowy Wintertide Eve, Queen Geneva tracks her straying spouse in an attempt to discover where he goes at night. As she labors over the solution to his curse, he's attempting to discover a solution for himself--and for the entire Middle Kingdoms.
Field Trip    by Jody Wallace
Price: $0.99 USD. 13180 words. Published on May 30, 2011. Fiction.

0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Can a slightly cynical third grade teacher survive a field trip, an interdimensional incident and a handsome tour guide all at the same time? Find out in this futuristic comedy of (little) terrors.
Cooley's Panther    by Jody Wallace
Price: $0.99 USD. 7790 words. Published on March 17, 2011. Fiction.

Cooley likes her life the way it is: quiet, suburban and without surprises of the "zoo animals in the back yard" kind. Too bad a particularly pesky panther has other ideas. When she finally manages to snap a photo of the big guy and prove to the police she hasn't been lying, she's not prepared for what their--and her--investigations uncover.

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Smashwords book reviews by Jody Wallace

  • A Cutthroat Business on June 02, 2011
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    Savannah Martin is working her little Southern Belle fingers to the bone trying to make her first official sale as a realtor. She works for an agency with a number of employees, from hateful power-saleswoman Brenda to her handsome, distinguished boss. Imagine her delight when a customer telephones one Saturday to complain that Brenda hasn't appeared to show him a house he's interested in. Needless to say, Savannah rushes right over to help. Imagine her surprise when he's very attractive. Imagine both their surprises when they discover they already know each other from high school, although they weren't exactly friends. Or from the same side of the proverbial tracks. Imagine their much larger surprise when they discover a dead body inside the house. When Savannah tries to find out how the body ended up there and whether Rafe (the hero) had anything to do with it, she finds out that the mystery goes a lot deeper than anyone--except for the dead person and the killer--would ever have expected. A Cutthroat Business was a fast-paced, entertaining read. I didn't know what it was like to be a realtor, and I enjoyed the worldbuilding side of the story as much as the mystery side. The details felt authentic to me without being boring at all. There was also a heavy dose of romance woven through the plot and a little delicious irony when our heroine kept putting down her own liking for "trashy romance novels" while having some Hollywoodishly swoony reactions to the hero. While the plot didn't ratchet up to a big, tense explosion at the end--the end, in fact, kind of snuck up on me--the conclusion was satisfying anyway and left a believable thread for Savannah and Rafe to continue their relationship, and their amateur PI-ing, in book 2 of the series.