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Halloween decorations are up. They were also up in July. They're up year-round, actually. They shed. 🎃

Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 30/09/2026

Bixie was somebody's indoor cat until they put her outside. She still keeps a foot of space between herself and anyone with hands. But when a kitten turned up alone this summer, she decided he was hers. 🐾

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 29/09/2026

Busy night at the feeding station. One possum ate, one strolled over, one got chased off, and the cats watched the whole thing like it was pay-per-view. 🐾

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 28/09/2026

Saturday breakfast for the strays, start to finish. Watch the orange girl at station five: she has her own bowl and would much rather have her buddy's. 🐾

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 27/09/2026

The vet decorated for Halloween. Hera spent the whole appointment on bat watch. Nobody told him they were paper. 🦇

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 27/09/2026

This is what greeted me for this evening's feeding. I think the little mother is getting a little exhausted from her kids. Poor baby.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 26/09/2026

How it started: sending a neighbor's cats some food. How it's going: a feeding station made from an old sink, TNR, two adopted cats, and every possum in the county on camera. The whole story. 🐾

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 25/09/2026

Soft food used to be breakfast only. Then the new mom started asking at the door at 7 PM. We caved. Now the other two show up too. Evening service is apparently a thing now. 🐾

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 24/09/2026

2 AM. Purpose-built outdoor cat house: inspected, declined. Chiminea we laid on its side to dry after a storm: claimed. Permanently. 🐾

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 23/09/2026

This is Pounce. Found alone after a storm in June, one pound, walked straight up to us. Seventh cat in the house. Four we chose, two were left behind, one was born out there. Somewhere around the seventh cat you realize you'd better start TNR before there's an eighth. 🐾

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 22/09/2026

Trap training, night one. Tie the trap open, leave it, wait. A cat walked in Sunday night and sat down to relax. One night. The Havahart worked too well: we have too many cats to grab whoever's first. Drop trap on order from Tomahawk. 🐾

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 21/09/2026

Six AM on the deck: two kittens on the railing, one on the ground, and a possum passing underneath like he's late for something. I put music and captions on this one. It took most of a Saturday. Watch for the head toss. 🐾

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 20/09/2026

My very first trap-neuter-return: one orange tabby, spayed and back on the deck by breakfast. The Silver Circle books were my fantasy life, rich and covered in cats. I got the cats. Nervous as heck going in, easier than I expected coming out. Now we want a drop trap. 🐾

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 19/09/2026

Update: the pregnant cat under the car skipped the trap by having the kittens first. Ate breakfast in labor, went under the house, came out for dinner looking like a deflated balloon. Everyone's fine. Meanwhile, tonight's houseguest: orange tabby, trapped, spayed, sleeping it off. 🐾

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 18/09/2026

The cameras under the car exist so nobody starts it with kittens inside. This is the cat about to make that relevant. Pregnant, eats our food, won't let us near her. Today we try a trap, on advice from the county shelter and YouTube. The kittens have not been consulted. 🐾

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 17/09/2026

CRYSTAL CLEAR STANDING is out today! 🔮 Fortuna's marriage has survived a vampire hunter, a family curse, and a mother who's technically a greyhound. It might not survive paperwork. Mystwich Mindslider #7 — Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. leanneleeds.com/books/crysta...

New release graphic for Crystal Clear Standing, The Mystwich Mindslider Mysteries Book 7 by Leanne Leeds. The cover stands on a carved wooden table in a stone chamber lit by red and gold smoke, with NEW RELEASE across the top and a caption reading available in English, German, French and Dutch.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 15/09/2026

3:14 PM. Under the car. Also not a kitten. 🫠

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 14/09/2026

4:48 AM. Under the car. Not a kitten. 🫠

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 14/09/2026

Listening to the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks has had one unexpected side effect: every time a cat does something ridiculous in this house, my husband or I yell "DAMMIT, DONUT!" With seven cats, that's basically our entire vocabulary now.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 13/09/2026

The cameras pointed at the car are not there because of the car. They are there so we can check that nobody has stashed kittens in the engine block. At five in the morning they caught this instead. He walked the whole undercarriage, left, then came back to put his face in the lens. 🫠

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 12/09/2026

Turn the sound up. That noise is a cat explaining the seating policy. The possum turns up at the door about four seconds in. The cat growls once without lifting its head from the bowl, and the possum accepts this. The feeding station has a maitre d' now. 🫠

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 11/09/2026

Same towel. Same keyboard. Same cat. Three months. 🐾

The same black cat three months later, grown, curled asleep across the full width of the same folded cream towel, with the same large yellow high-contrast keyboard in the foreground. He now fills the frame edge to edge.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 10/09/2026

That black cat lying on Caffrey on Sunday? This is him three months ago — five weeks old and one pound, found after a storm in June. I have had a lot of cats and never one that small. Tomorrow: what a pound turns into. 🐾

A small black kitten asleep on a folded cream towel, seen just above a large yellow high-contrast keyboard in the foreground.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 09/09/2026

10:43 PM — possum, eating. 10:43 PM — second possum, at the door, not eating, deeply aware of the first possum. There's a wait for a table now. 🫠

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 09/09/2026

My kid begged me to get it because of all she was seeing online you could do with it, and I figured I could get something out of it, so I got the $100/m to try it. For editing fiction, it's awful. I went straight back to Claude. I think my kid's vibe coding a game or something with it.

A graph showing that I overwhelmingly use Claude.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 08/09/2026

It dropped below ninety after sundown, so half of Georgetown brought a folding chair to the square last Friday night. Free live music on the lovely Georgetown Square. Also in this photo: Rev. Marek Bożek, the man who's the inspiration for Father Bo in the latest Owl Star Witch book. (He knows.)

A group of people sitting in folding camp chairs on the grass under large live oak trees at golden hour, smiling toward the camera. Several are wearing matching red shirts and holding cold drinks. Behind them the lit stone courthouse and a crowd fill the town square in the evening light.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 07/09/2026

Bixie and Nibbles are spooning. Pounce is over there. 👀

Three cats on a white quilted bedspread. At the left, Bixie, a brown tabby with white markings, is curled around Nibbles, a black cat with white paws and chest, with one white paw draped over him. Far to the right, Pounce, a solid black cat, lies stretched out flat and alone across the empty rest of the bed.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 06/09/2026

Pounce thinks this is cuddling. Caffrey has not been consulted. 👀

A small solid black kitten, Pounce, lying draped over the back of a grey shorthair cat, Caffrey, with his chin resting on Caffrey's shoulder and his eyes on the camera. Caffrey faces the window, staring out at the light, entirely still. Both are on a folded blanket beside a desk.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 05/09/2026

Found a bin of stuffed animals that all look like they've already survived something. Mismatched button eyes, crooked teeth, one of them has a single eye and I'm pretty sure that's not a defect. When I was a kid you got a bear like this by loving it for eleven years. 🫠

A cardboard store bin full of oversized plush monsters. In front, a white shaggy yeti with a blue face, two mismatched button eyes at different heights, crooked teeth and a pale blue tongue hanging out. Beside it, a grey one-eyed creature with a floppy ear and a wide magenta mouth. Purple, tan and green plush creatures are piled behind them.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 04/09/2026

The feeding station has a queue now. A possum arrives for breakfast at the speed of someone who had a very long night. Halfway through, watch the upper left door — a cat peeks in and withdraws to wait its turn. I built this for the cats. 🫠

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 03/09/2026

OWL THE SMALL THINGS is out today! 🦉 Astra Arden wanted one quiet week at home. Instead: Aunt Gwennie is secretly dating Detective Briggs, and Arden House starts misbehaving. Owl Star Witch Mysteries #23 — Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. leanneleeds.com/books/owl-th...

Owl the Small Things, The Owl Star Witch Mysteries Book 23 by Leanne Leeds - new release graphic showing the cover art and international editions.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 02/09/2026

Convinced myself a possum at the feeding station was a mother carrying a baby. Zoomed in. Pulled frames. Got a second opinion. He came out into the open last night. Not a baby. He's a gentleman. 🫠

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 01/09/2026

In June, Mozzie thwapped Pounce on the head for chewing on him. This week Pounce fell asleep with a paw on Mozzie's back and Mozzie did not move. It is a one-cat window bed. ☀️

Three cats packed into a single small window bed in a sunbeam. Two grey shorthairs, Caffrey and Mozzie, are wedged together looking up, while Pounce, a solid black kitten, dozes against them with one paw draped over Mozzie's back.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 31/08/2026

Bixie has found a sleeping position I can only describe as "dropped from a height." Her head is at an angle her neck should have opinions about. She stayed like that for an hour. 😴

Two cats asleep on a bed. A black cat is curled against a tabby and white cat named Bixie, who is sprawled on her side with her head tipped back at an odd angle, whiskers splayed. An empty round cat bed sits beside them and a black soft-sided cat carrier rests on the bed behind.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 29/08/2026

I did so well at Costco. Avocados, zucchini, carrots, a cabbage. Then I walked into the bakery and undid all of it in under a minute. The cupcakes have sprinkles on them. I never stood a chance. 🧁

A Costco shopping cart seen from above. A clear clamshell box of twelve white cupcakes with buttercream frosting and rainbow sprinkles sits on top of the groceries, next to a large bag of organic baby carrots, with cabbage, avocados, cheese and bacon underneath.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 28/08/2026

I have three monitors and zero of them.

Three cats sitting on a desk in front of three monitors, all facing the screens. The middle cat watches a video of a caterpillar crawling on a white background. The cat on the right stares intently at a blank white screen. A long fluffy tail is draped across a yellow mechanical keyboard.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 20/08/2026

Book 14 is out today! 🐾 A pitmaster turns up dead beside his smoker, and the only witness is a battle-scarred stray who trusts exactly nobody. Ellie's got a Texas heat wave, a feral colony, and a barbecue rivalry with a body count. Free in KU. leanneleeds.com/books/scruff...

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 19/08/2026

8:47 PM — Husband: Going to go refill the stray feeding station. Me: checks camera. "Possum's eating. You need to wait, you'll scare him." He left at 9:23. This possum ate longer than I've spent on some meals at Thanksgiving. 🥴

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 18/06/2026

"My ghost dog has been staring at a vault that shouldn't exist, the coven's founding symbol has one point too many, and someone just tried to exile my vampire husband to keep me from looking. Cool. " Book 6 is out today. leanneleeds.com/books/crysta...

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 23/05/2026

In 2007, Stephen Colbert and his staff granted my kid a Make-A-Wish. They were warm, gracious, and made my kid feel like the most important person in the room — then kept in touch every few years until my kid was grown. As his show ends this week: thank you. Truly amazing people.

Stephen Colbert shaking hands with a child in a make up room.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 21/05/2026

3 days. That's it. From May 21-23, you can download FREE paranormal cozy mystery book SETS—not just single titles, but full binge-worthy series. (The Owl Star Books 1-8 included!) After Saturday night, they all go back to full price. Don't sleep on this one! books.bookfunnel.com/freecozymyst...

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 21/05/2026

A wellness retreat for the magically exhausted. A guru in a sensory tank. A “relaxing” weekend that’s anything but zen. 🦉 Owl is Calm – Owl Star Witch Mysteries #22 – is OUT NOW! 📖 leanneleeds.com/books/owl-is... #cozymystery #newrelease #kindleunlimited

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 16/04/2026

Her dead father sent a warning through a three-year-old. One word: cousins. Crystal Clear Claims — Mystwich Mindslider Mysteries Book 5 🔮 👉 leanneleeds.com/books/crysta...

Book 5 in the Mystwich Mindslider Mysteries by Leanne Leeds. A paranormal cozy mystery featuring psychic Fortuna Delphi-Trevino. Available now in English, German, French, and Dutch.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 19/03/2026

A runaway parade float & a legacy built on a lie! 🐱 Burgers, Bunting, & Betrayal is LIVE in KU! 🇺🇸 leanneleeds.com/books/burgers-bunting-and-betrayal (Check the link for German, French, & Dutch translations! 🇳🇱 Dutch also available on Kobo!)

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 27/02/2026

Five chapters into edits and I just realized I contradicted my own lore. From three books ago. The cat didn't even have the decency to look sympathetic—she just yawned and rolled over on my notes. 😩📖

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 19/02/2026

Mystwich Hollow’s wildest family reunion is LIVE! 🧛♀️✨ Fortuna Delphi is back, and her midlife crisis just got teeth. Her vampire husband’s twin sister is in town. The bad news? She’s a vampire hunter. Dive into the latest Mystwich Mindslider Mystery today: leanneleeds.com/books/crysta...

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 08/02/2026

Such a tiny typo, but I never would have gone looking in other books for the line in a 20+ book series. NotebookLM is such a game changer in handling these reported oopsies that make it through editing.

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 25/01/2026

It’s a crap day for a lot of reasons, and I wish I could fix everything for everyone. I can’t. But I can make sure this little guy has a heated house for the Austin cold front. Focus on the small wins when the big ones feel impossible. ❄️🏠

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Leanne Leeds @leanneleeds.com · 20/01/2026

Have you picked up my newest release, Owl Be Dreaming? 🦉 Wondering about those circus references? The Magical Midway is the complete series that sets the stage that answers all your questions. Grab singles or binge the discounted bundle! 🎪 Start the adventure here: leanneleeds.com/magical-midw...

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