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 V.R. Craft Wrote Stupid Humans

    A World Without Idiots Have you ever wondered what the world would be like without idiots? I have, and it inspired me to write my first book, a comical science fiction novel called Stupid Humans. I always knew there were a lot of stupid people in the world, but I never knew how many until…

  • Why Cara Bristol Wrote 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 truth—or at least the truth as he sees it. Kai is a cyborg and a cyberoperative, an undercover agent with a covert paramilitary organization fighting against terrorism in the…

  • Why Lea Kirk Wrote PROPHECY

    Thank you, Pauline, for inviting me here today, and for asking why I wrote Prophecy. The seed for Prophecy was planted 30+ years ago while I was still in high school. (You all can stop counting now, you hear?) It started with, well, a different question. What would happen if aliens invaded during the school…

  • 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…