Pauline Baird Jones

  • New Orleans Helped Me Find My Inner Crazy

    I’ve been playing around with travel posters (I got the idea from NASA), though this week’s “tour” is a real place. We lived in New Orleans for 18 years. That is the longest place I’ve lived anywhere other than where I grew up (which is a tie, since I went to college at 18). New…

  • Why I wrote Family Treed and Louisiana Lagniappe

    I was searching through all my posts and realized that I didn’t write a “why I wrote” for Family Treed, my short story in my Big Uneasy series. I might not have done it because it was a short story. I honestly don’t remember. So I think I’ll cover both “Family Treed” and Louisiana Lagniappe…

  • Remind Me Why DEAD SPACES Happened?

    We write books for lots of reasons. Usually, there isn’t one “this is why I wrote this book.” Which is why I have, and like, this feature. I’m curious why authors write the books they write. And believe it or not, I’m curious why I wrote a particular book. (You’d think I’d know, wouldn’t you?)…

  • A Peek Behind RELATIVELY RISKY

    As I release the fourth installment in my Big Uneasy series, I thought it would be fun to look back at the other installments in the series, and how it came to be… Eleven years ago—and after 18 years there—the hubs and I left the Big Easy, courtesy of a company transfer.  The thing about New Orleans,…

  • It’s Never Easy: Louisiana Lagniappe Releasing!

    You might be wondering why you didn’t know this book was releasing. The short answer is (always): Life Happens. And it happened to me. A lot. Some quick facts about Louisiana Lagniappe: It was supposed to be a novel, but it’s not. It’s a novella. (see above) It was supposed to release in Sept, but Embrace the…

  • August Brings Its A-game & I Bring my Kick-Me Sign

    So we are officially two-thirds of the way through August, the month that loves to hate on me. I can’t decide if the picture I chose from the hub’s Flickr page is about August figuring out how to further hose me, or that’s a representation of the voices inside my head trying to figure out…

  • #AugustAudio: Family Treed

    Well, we’re over halfway through #AugustAudio! If you haven’t tried an audio book, or even if you have, be sure to check out the hashtag #AugustAudio to score some free audio books. This week, I’m sharing a short one. “Family Treed” is the short story between Relatively Risky and Dead Spaces. If you’re not sure…

  • New Orleans They Wrote

    I’m talking New Orleans in the run up to the release of Dead Spaces next month (book 2 in my Big Uneasy series). On Monday I wrote a bit about my transition to New Orleans as a person, but New Orleans also had a huge impact on me as an author. I wish I could bottle the…

  • How I Came to Miss New Orleans

    While the math is a bit sobering, I can’t make it add up any differently. It was—gulp—thirty years—and almost exactly two months ago—that we began our journey toward knowing what it means to miss New Orleans. The hubs and I drove there from Texas with one daughter, a one-month-old baby and a six-week-old, new hip…

  • Sagging Middles Suck Dead Toads

    I had sagging middles on the brain when I saw this photo in the hubs Flickr feed. Gravity has not been kind to my middle, but that’s not actually the middle plaguing me at the moment. Or should I say it is not the only middle plaguing me. O.O As an author, I fear the…