Pauline Baird Jones

  • Welcome to 2023 with the Big Uneasy!

    It’s a brand new year! I don’t know why I am so surprised. I was actually awake and present (during the day) for the whole year. And yet here I am. Surprised.  I thought it would be fun to take a book-look back before we book-look forward to 2023. I’m so grateful to everyone for…

  • Rediscovering New Orleans

    After 18 years, our “foreign” assignment in New Orleans ended. The hubs and I left the Big Easy courtesy of a company transfer.  The thing about New Orleans, it doesn’t let you completely leave. It lingers in your mind. And yeah, in your taste buds. You find yourself trying to find food as good and…

  • Pirogue Wipe Out Release Day!!!

    No one is going to get what they want this time.  No-nonsense Coast Guard agent, Dan Baker finds himself going where he doesn’t want to go (the swamp) and feeling what he never thought he’d feel (in love or in like). He really hopes the mysterious Gemma isn’t the murderer because he doesn’t want or…

  • Three Days to Pirogue Wipe Out

    In three days, Pirogue Wipe Out, the seventh book in my Big Uneasy series will release.  Three days.  I am a little excited about this.  When I wrote the first book, Relatively Risky, their were thirteen Baker siblings, so that meant I planned to write at least thirteen books. There will actually be fourteen books,…

  • The Ultimate Big Easy Baby Shower

    So “The Family Way” released on the 18th! I’m so excited about this short story! I love plays on words and let’s face it, with Nell it’s always about family and FAMILY (the mob). So the title totally makes me smile. Here are the details about the story: Alex and Nell are expecting!  At Nell’s…

  • Recalling New Orleans

    The hubs and I lived in New Orleans for eighteen years. When we moved there, we didn’t think we’d be there that long. Company transfers tended to be from two to five years.  We’d been with the company for five years and New Orleans was our third transfer. So we had good reason to think…

  • The Family Way

    Ideas come to me in different ways. Usually, they come in bits and pieces, like a book title. Sometimes they arrive almost fully dressed and I just need to write it down. That is kind of what happened with The Family Way, my August release in the Big Uneasy series.  If you’ve read any of…

  • Big Uneasy Remembering

    I have some fun, Big Uneasy news, but first I thought it would be fun to take a look back at where all the New Orleans quirky began.  Believe it or not, the genesis of this series goes all the way back to…I think 2000 or maybe 2002? Somewhere in there.   It’s hard to imagine…

  • Mardi Gras Musings

    Our family moved to New Orleans in 1984. Yeah, last century. We lived there for eighteen years. That would be eighteen Mardi Gras seasons. As a confirmed hermit, I was not a dedicated parade attendee, but I was—and I remain—a huge fan of the cake. Lol I don’t remember the exact date that I began…

  • Behind the Book: Beaucoup Fracas

    I have a tradition that I started a long time ago. What is this tradition?  I interview myself about what happened behind the scenes while writing a book. It’s a bit like an extra video accompanying a movie. Only it’s not video.  And there isn’t a movie. Though I wish there was! I think my…