Pauline Baird Jones

  • Why Did the Chicken Cross the Galaxy?

    Why Did the Chicken Cross the Galaxy?

    Why does the chicken (or anyone) cross the galaxy? Why to get to the other side. Of course, you know that I had to hunt down some chicken-crossing-the-road jokes and was actually surprised there were so many. Here are some, modified for my galactic theme, of course: Q. Why did the chicken cross only halfway…

  • Thanks for Taking a Chance on Me :-)

    Thanks for Taking a Chance on Me 🙂

    Many, many years ago a young girl fell in love with books. She loved them so much she risked getting in trouble in school to read when she should have been doing her schoolwork. She kept a flashlight under the bed, so she could read when she was supposed to be asleep. She walked while…

  • We Interrupt Our Regular Feature for a Good Cause

    We interrupt my regularly scheduled “why I wrote/read” feature this week because something very special is happening this May. In fact, it has happened for the last ten years and I’m really excited to be involved in my small way for the tenth anniversary. Here’s the scoop from the website: “Join me help my son…

  • Perilous P’s Interview “Selfie”

    Some years ago, when I was a newbie author, I started interviewing myself because no one else was. I called them “The Behind the Book” interviews. And then I went one step further and interviewed myself about what it was like to interview me. Yeah, it got a little weird. But I do get questions…

  • I Needed To Get it Out of my Head – Why I Wrote THE KEY

    The Key was never meant to be a book. It wasn’t meant to be anything. I’d been OD-ing on Stargate Atlantis and got an idea for the show—yeah, total fan fiction—that I could NOT get out of my head. In desperation, I decided to just write it down. Put it on paper and GET IT…