Pauline Baird Jones

  • 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…

  • Why She Wrote Up on the House Top

      I love reading about why authors write the books they write and I love thinking/writing about why I wrote a book. Maybe it’s an author thing. I don’t know, but the process of a germ of an idea growing into a full-fledged story fascinates me. So as Genie wrote last week, we were at…

  • Why Genie Davis Wrote RIDING FOR CHRISTMAS

    Why did I write “Riding for Christmas?” Well, months back, my dear friend and one of the best writers I know, Ms. Pauline Baird Jones,  asked if I would like to be a part of a set of holiday novellas. Naturally, I leapt at the idea: fun, writing, friendship, a genre new for me –…

  • ALL I GOT FOR #CHRISTMAS, an Excerpt

    A peek inside All I Got For Christmas… Gini pushed open the driver’s door and stepped out into blowing snow and a chill that cut through her Texas coat like it was a puff of smoke. At least it wasn’t as cold as it could be, since it was snowing, but her blood had thinned in…

  • Putting on “Home”

    When you plan a Christmas release, or any other holiday release, you have to “get in the mood” well before said holiday. If you start writing during the holiday, well, it won’t release until next year. I sort of knew this, but I’d never tried it. So I started working on Up on the House Top in…

  • Why Donna S. Frelick Wrote UNCHAINED MEMORY #Authortag

    A lot of people smarter than I am will tell you every great science fiction story starts with an idea. An equal number of deep thinkers will say that every great romance story starts with a character, typically the heroine. The challenge in writing SFR is that you have to start with both. Lucky for…