Pauline Baird Jones

  • Get Lost in an Adventure

    Did you watch the original TV show Lost in Space? Love or hate the movie adaptation (I hated it)? I have a love/hate relationship with “lost somewhere” movies, books, etc. On the one hand, I love “fish out of water” stories (characters in an environment not familiar to them), but after a while I get…

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    August Heard It’s My Birthday

    I have tried hiding from my birthday (not because of my age, you understand, it’s just that my birthdays tend to go horribly wrong), but I think August heard. It’s been hosing me ALL month. So I thought I’d post some pictures of the fun presents I received. Early. Yes, I received all of these…

  • Now Why Did She Write KICKING ASHE?

    I think it is ironic that my looking back at “why I wrote” post this week is about kicking. Why is this ironic? Because it is August and it likes to kick me around. I could go on and on, but I won’t. Instead, I’ll write about what I’m supposed to write about, namely Kicking…

  • 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…

  • Remembering Why I Wrote Girl Gone Nova

    So I finished The Key, aka The Big A** Book, with no plans to write more science fiction romance (you might recall that I didn’t know I’d written SFR at that point. I thought I’d written a) an action adventure that just happened to be set in space; b) a really, really long novel I…

  • I Love Cosmetics (Wish They Loved Me)

    Confession time here. I love cosmetics (we called it makeup in the olden days), even though it can only do so much on my sixty-plus face. I can remember playing with pretend makeup when I was little and begging my mom to use the real stuff when I turned thirteen (is that a painful age…

  • Revisiting Why I Wrote the First Project Enterprise (The Key)

    With the official release of Found Girl: Project Enterprise 6 tomorrow (!!!), I thought it would be fun to go back to the first book and revisit how it happened. 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…

  • Yes, I am Stumped!

    There are days when your word well just runs dry. Yup, I’m stumped. I’ve been avoiding my blog all day. I did my laundry and other chores, rather than face the blank blog. And, worse, I promised to not be serious this week (after two weeks of serious in a row. How crazy is that??)…