Pauline Baird Jones

  • Revisiting Why Veronica Scott Wrote WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM

    I’m seriously engaged in the #GrandmaProject, so I thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of my “Why I Wrote” guest posts, and what could be better than my first! I had this crazy idea of asking authors to come and answer the question of whey they wrote [fill in…

  • Why AR DeClerck Wrote REDSHIFT

    From the Desk of Adventure Romance Novelist AR DeClerck: Dearest Readers, Hello again! I am so excited to be writing to you today about my most recent novel, REDSHIFT. There’s just something special about this book, and several readers have asked me why I wrote this story. I’d love to answer that for you now.…

  • Why S.E. Smith Wrote The Seven Kingdoms

    Pick your treasure carefully…  Carly Tate’s trip to Yachats State Park takes an unexpected twist when she is caught in a sudden storm. Seeking shelter, she stumbles through a magical doorway into a cavern filled with treasure. Her gaze is not focused on the gold and jewels though, it is focused on the slumbering form…

  • Why Diana Reep Wrote Kiss’d

    I’m happy to talk about the origin of Kiss’d, a YA romantic adventure. I’ve always been fascinated by history and how ordinary people dealt with tumultuous events. My favorite time period is turn-of-the-century 1900, and the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I triggered an idea for a time-travel romance. After researching the…

  • Why Tonya Cannariato Wrote The Builders

    This story started as many of mine do: As a compelling dream. In it, a woman with amazing body art was depressed because she’d been sent on a mission to find “generators” for her dying race, and she was failing her quest. Her understanding of the word meant she’d all but whored herself out testing…

  • Why Carol Van Atta Wrote The Central Galactic Concordance Collection, Books 1-3

    The talented, multi-genre author Pauline and I have been online friends for a couple of years now, so when she asked why I wrote The Central Galactic Concordance Collection, Books 1-3, my short answer was “because I’ve finally written enough books to make it worthwhile.” Smartassery aside, the more informative answer is to explain why…

  • Why Veronica Scott Wrote The Captive Shifter

    Thank you so much for having me as your guest today to talk about the inspiration for The Captive Shifter (Magic of Claddare Book 1)! I’ve said this before but I regard coming to your blog to tell the “story behind the story” of each new book as a good luck charm for my new…

  • Why Jolie Mason Wrote Home is the Sailor

    Does it count if I say “It’s complicated”? I wanted to write a story based around a ship because I was going through Serenity withdrawals, but, as I wrote, it became something more. These captains became friends, and the Carry Bell became a kind of home. Home is the Sailor is a second chance romance,…

  • Why Lynn Charles Wrote Beneath the Stars

    Beneath the Stars is the story about Sid Marneaux, a man whose fashion design business is at a major turning point, and the call to come home to Pennsylvania and help care for his ailing father. While home, he meets another man, Eddie Garner, and a romance begins. At its core, Beneath the Stars is…

  • Why Cynthia Sax Wrote Dark Thoughts

    Dark Thoughts is the first standalone story in a four story spinoff series from the cyborg series. We first meet Kralj, the scarred mind-reading hero of Dark Thoughts, in Chasing Mayhem. Readers don’t need to read that story to enjoy Dark Thoughts. That was when I KNEW I had to write this story. The cyborgs…