Pauline Baird Jones

  • My Blooming Novellas

    The story of my blooming novellas is a lot like that of my blooming short stories.  Which is to say, they all happened a bit by accident—if you define an accident as someone asking me a question and me saying, “sure, I’ll do that.”  And then I wondered what the heck?  I usually write on…

  • Book Your Trip Now!

    When ever anyone asks if I would sign up to go to Mars, the answer is always a resounding NO. I have many reasons why I don’t want to go to Mars: I am old. I do not want to leave my family. #GrandmaProject I don’t actually like adversity. I have seen NO ONE guaranteeing…

  • Now Why Did She Write KICKING ASHE?

    I think it is ironic that my looking back at “why I wrote” post this week is about kicking. Why is this ironic? Because it is August and it likes to kick me around. I could go on and on, but I won’t. Instead, I’ll write about what I’m supposed to write about, namely Kicking…

  • Tangled in a Good Promo!

    It’s Monday! Spring arrived! I’m in a pretty good mood (for a change. I know, what IS my problem with Monday? Answering that would make this blog post SO long we’d never get to the good stuff.) My sister and I were rejoicing over spring and she said, “After a history-making winter, we earned this…

  • 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…

  • #PetsInSpace is Available for #Preorder!

    I know I’ve been a little Pets in Space crazy around here, but this is my only release for 2016. It’s been a kind of crazy year. And it is our project (Veronica Scott and I). We conceived the idea, collected some amazing authors who we’d  talked into giving us their stories (amazing, fun, exciting stories!) for…

  • #PetsinSpace Cover Reveal! #excited

    It has almost killed me not to talk about this project. I’m so excited and so thrilled to announce the upcoming release of [imagine an echo voice here, please!]: Pets in Space Out October 11th, 2016 Even an alien needs a pet… Join the adventure as nine pet loving sci-fi romance authors take you out…

  • Why Lindsay McKenna Wrote NOWHERE TO HIDE

    In the late 1980’s, I created Morgan’s Mercenaries, a romantic military suspense family saga-series. It went on to become 45 books strong, best selling, around the globe and put into 33 foreign languages. I created the military romance genre in 1983 with Captive of Fate (then, Silhouette Special edition and today, Harlequin). Today, military romantic…

  • Why Veronica Scott Wrote HEALER OF THE NILE

    My new novella Healer of the Nile was recently released with stories from seven other authors in an anthology entitled Here Be Magic. Part of my “good luck ritual” for any new release is to visit Pauline and explain the background, so many thanks for having me as your guest today! I’d had a germ…

  • Turn on an #Audiobook with #AugustAudio

    So we’re two weeks into August and two weeks into #AugustAudio. So far August is winning the most. It always kicks me around, but one thing I do to escape August is put on the headphones and slide into an audiobook. Listening to a book is a fun experience—and very different to reading a book.…