Pauline Baird Jones

  • Reading Christmas: A Christmas Carol

    Some years ago, I went to talk on forming a book club. As a writer and reader, I was very interested in books and talking about books. The person giving the taboutk got up and basically said that she only read Charles Dickens. And she read him over and over and over again. Blink. Blink.…

  • Merry Christmas!!! #holiday #sale

    I hope today is a wonderful one for you, no matter your celebration persuasion. Treat yourself to something sweet during the two-day Romance and Chick Lit Holiday Sale! These 35 feel-good books are guilty pleasures that won’t pack on the pounds. So go ahead and indulge – you deserve it. This is the first time The…

  • My Ghosts of Christmases Past

    Do you ever “see” the ghosts of your Christmases past? As part of my “Adventure in Wyoming,” I’ve stirred up a lot of ghosts. Thankfully, I’m not Scrooge, so they seem to be benign. But there is something about Christmas that really brings out the memories – the good, the bad, even the crazy. I…

  • Let’s Talk Cookies (and beyond)

    I LOVE cookies. I was a cookie monster before there was a Cookie Monster. So it is kind of sad that there will be no cookie baking in my house this Christmas. It’s not that I’ve suddenly become anti-cookie, nor has there been a Tragedy. I just don’t have any of the things you need…

  • It’s a Christmas Blog Hop!

    This holiday, being home for the first time in a many years, has stirred up lots of holiday memories. One thing I love about Christmas is the TREATS! Yeah, I’m a total treat freak, so I’m excited to share one of my (easy) holiday recipes with you as part of this blog hop: Praline Pecans Ingredients:…

  • 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…

  • Lights in the Wormhole

    It’s Texas. Go big or go home! What’s in your wormhole today? You know I love comments so much that I enter all of them into my monthly drawing for an AnaBanana gift basket ($25 value). I announce a winner the first blog post of the new month. Perilously yours, Pauline …but it’s always fun!…