Pauline Baird Jones

  • Heroines Who Save the Day - Pauline Baird Jones

    Heroines Who Save the Day (and Themselves)

    Let’s face it: damsels in distress are soooo last century. Today’s heroines are bold, brave, and perfectly capable of saving the galaxy—and their hearts.

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    How to Support Your Favorite Author Without Spending a Penny 💌

    You’ve just finished a book you loved. You laughed, maybe cried, and now you want to do something nice for the author—but your budget says “nope.” The good news? There are so many ways to support authors that don’t cost a thing.

  • Believe It!

    This is another post that I wrote back in 2013. Wow, I sure didn’t see 2020 coming when I wrote this: Sometimes change is scary. Sometimes it is magical. I prefer magical change to the scary kind. The scary kind feels life threatening, even though mostly it isn’t. And sometimes change feels like the above…

  • Rebranding Project Enterprise

    I am in the process of rebranding my Project Enterprise series because I am working on a new book in the series! (See, I do listen you, readers!) I’m having to learn some new [mad] skills in the process. It’s made me realize, no, that’s not the right word, it’s made me remember things I…

  • Donna Frelick Talks FOOLS RUSH IN and Diversity

    Ever since visionary Gene Roddenberry outfitted his starship Enterprise with an African-American comm officer, an Asian helm officer, a Vulcan First Officer and a Russian navigator, diversity has been the gold standard of science fiction (and SFR). That a genre (mostly) set in the future should so often fail to meet that standard is a…

  • Have You Heard of #AuthorTag?

    I honestly don’t remember how I old I was when that switch clicked in my head and I went from laboring through books to inhaling them. I became a reader when you could do two things for the authors that delighted you with their stories: You could keep reading their books (and if you had…

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    Dear Me A Thousand Years Ago

    Dear Me a thousand years ago (give or take a few seconds), When I first heard about the Write Path, I knew I wanted to write this blog post (and I give permission for it to be used in the eBook compilation) and I’m excited that this also my 400th blog post (see the party…

  • Perilous P’s Interview “Selfie”

    Some years ago, when I was a newbie author, I started interviewing myself because no one else was. I called them “The Behind the Book” interviews. And then I went one step further and interviewed myself about what it was like to interview me. Yeah, it got a little weird. But I do get questions…

  • After the Storm: Peace. Well, Relative Peace

    Every January, despite that whole, yay-it’s-a-fresh-new-year thing, I feel this urge to go on a writer’s retreat. Or just retreat. Not exactly sure which. Because I grew up around mountains and creeks, (cricks) this is generally where I imagine myself summoning the Muse (or using the crick to drown out my whining). I have yet…

  • Why I Don’t Go to McD’s in my PJ’s or the Curse of an Over Active Imagination

    I tweeted a couple of weeks ago that I almost went to McDonald’s in my pjs. Someone tweeted back: drive thru. Trust me when I saw that drive thru is my favorite way to get food. As a confirmed hermit it cuts down on the number of people I have to talk to. (Grin). I…