Pauline Baird Jones

  • Still Swooning for THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL

    I saw this tweet on Facebook (yes, really) that said that something like the Scarlet Pimpernel was the first vigilante in a cape. Which meant that Baroness Orczy, a female, invented superheroes. I thought that was pretty cool. And I loved that book. The tweet/Facebook launched a bunch of reminiscing about The Scarlet Pimpernel. The…

  • Birds of a Feather Read Together?

    On Wednesdays we “talk” books on this blog. I love books. I love to read them. I love to write them. I love to talk about them with other readers. So I was trolling the hub’s Flickr page looking for images for my Monday blog and I saw the one above and I knew I…

  • Isn’t it Romantic?

    I am a romantic, so it was entirely natural that my reading would trend toward the romantic. When I was younger, I mixed some serious angst into my reading mix, but as I got older—and my life got more complicated—I dumped the angst for happy-ever-afters and the satisfying romantic read. Now don’t get me wrong.…

  • One Book Authors? #sadface

    There are some very famous authors who only wrote one or two novels. I have to say, they break my reader’s heart. When I love a book, I always want more. In the “old days,” it was a lot harder to find out if there were more books or even why someone didn’t write more.…

  • What’s Your Trope?

    I got such fun and interesting responses from my blog post “What’s your Genre?” (both here and on Facebook), that I thought it would be fun to take it a step further. Several people mentioned looking for tropes, instead of specific genres. What’s a trope, you ask? A literary trope is the use of figurative…

  • What’s Your Genre?

    If you hang around my blog, then you know that Wednesday is always about books. Why I wrote a book. Why an author wrote a book. Why an author writes. So okay, authors and books. But at its core, this day is about books and reading. Helping you (and me!) meet authors and find out…

  • Some Ghost in Your Romance?

    So, I bought a print book while deep in the throes of the flu. It arrived and has been sitting out in view (so I won’t forget to read it) waiting patiently for me to remember not to forget to read it. Books are like that. Patient and persistent. Print books have to be REALLY…

  • Why I’m Reading THE INDIE POWER PACK

    I can’t believe I waited this long to check out WRITE. PUBLISH. REPEAT. But I did. Luckily, I follow David Gaughren’s blog (a fan of LET’S GET VISIBLE and LET’S GET DIGITAL – one of which is included in the bundle), so I heard about this bundle: I jumped on it, even though I already…

  • What Are You Reading?

    Last weekend I was away at a big writer’s conference. I got my Monday and my Friday blogs done before I left, but did not have a guest scheduled and was worded out when it came time for Wednesday. So this morning I went into the hub’s Flickr feed for ideas and inspiration. My first…

  • Why I read Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

    When I finish a book I like, after the happy sigh, my next thought usually is, “Who do I know who would like this book?” Sometimes I can really like a book and not be sure anyone I know would also like it. It was like that with The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. Some…