Pauline Baird Jones

  • Why Laurie A. Green Wrote Courting Disaster

    Little did I know when I penned the original Pets in Space story, StarDog, that I hadn’t just created a bio-engineered dog-cat-weasel-mongoose, I’d opened up a whole new plot thread in the Inherited Stars Series! The original StarDog brought some fun new twists to the timeline, but it also introduced new characters and added a…

  • Why Vicki Batman Wrote Temporarily Insane

    I knew when I began writing, and I’ll circle to that in a minute, but why I wrote is a bit trickier. For extra credit in fourth grade, I could read a book and write a report, or something else (I can’t remember), or write an original poem. I’d selected a poetry book. As I…

  • Liana Brooks on BODIES IN MOTION

    Liana Brooks is visiting the blog today to talk about her new release, Bodies in Motion and why she wrote it. Many, many years ago when I was trying to take a mental break from the Time and Shadows series I decided to try writing Harry Potter fanfic. I was fascinated by the isolation Hermione had…

  • Why Veronica Scott Wrote Two Against the Stars

    In 2016, Pauline and I were the co-creators of the Pets In Space scifi romance anthology and for that volume, I wrote a novella about an alien empathic priestess held captive by the interstellar mob, and how she eventually attains her freedom. I found myself fascinated by the whole alien empath/interstellar mob concept and the…

  • Did You Miss Why SM Schmitz Wrote Peyton’s Myth?

    Another in my summer series of looking back at past “why they wrote” posts. Today I’m hoping you’ll take another look at S.M. Schmitz’s peek behind Peyton’s Myth:  Earlier this year, I decided to write another science-fiction romance series, my first being the Resurrected trilogy. I wanted to do something different than Resurrected, with a bit…

  • A Look Back at Why Cara Bristol Wrote MATED WITH THE CYBORG

    With the long, lazy days of summer upon me, I’m doing more looks back at “why they wrote” posts. This week it is Cara Bristol’s Mated with the Cyborg. 🙂 I wrote Mated with the Cyborg, a sci-fi romance, because I wanted to tell the truth. Er, I wanted Kai Andros, the hero, to tell the…

  • A Look Back at Why Laurie A. Green Wrote Inherit the Stars

    When Pauline first invited me to write this guest blog on Why I Wrote Inherit the Stars, I didn’t know quite how to begin. Like several other manuscripts, Inherit the Stars has roots in a dream that planted just the kernel of an idea in my mind, a tiny snippet that clung to my consciousness…

  • Revisiting Why Greta van der Rol Wrote Kuralon Rescue

    I’m dialing things back this summer, so I’ll be doing more revisits of past “Why She Wrote” posts, just in case you missed them the first time. Here’s a fun one from a wonderful author, Greta van der Rol: My motives for writing my latest novel, Kuralon Rescue, evolved. I wanted to write a new…

  • Revisiting Why Veronica Scott Wrote MAROONED

    My #GrandmaProject reposting of past Why I Wrote posts continues this week with another fun read from Veronica Scott. There was a reality TV show on BRAVO for two seasons, called “Below Deck”, which followed the crew of a luxury charter yacht in the Caribbean as they sailed with different guests. You can imagine there…

  • Why She Wrote Revisit: BLOOD SURFER by Debra Jess

    Medical romance is a well-loved genre, and the search for a cure is one of my favorite science fiction plots. My inspiration for this story started with a question: What if the cure for any disease or wound could be achieved, not through surgery or from a newly discovered drug, but from a person who…