Pauline Baird Jones

  • Why Laurie A. Green Wrote Courting Disaster

    Little did I know when I penned the original Pets in Space story, StarDog, that I hadn’t just created a bio-engineered dog-cat-weasel-mongoose, I’d opened up a whole new plot thread in the Inherited Stars Series! The original StarDog brought some fun new twists to the timeline, but it also introduced new characters and added a…

  • A Look Back at Why Laurie A. Green Wrote Inherit the Stars

    When Pauline first invited me to write this guest blog on Why I Wrote Inherit the Stars, I didn’t know quite how to begin. Like several other manuscripts, Inherit the Stars has roots in a dream that planted just the kernel of an idea in my mind, a tiny snippet that clung to my consciousness…

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    A Mystery Ship Called Calypso 

    As a writer, I find inspiration in many places. My characters may be named in honor of an actual person—a family member, childhood friend or mentor. Settings may be drawn from some of the real life places I’ve visited or lived. A special memento might get a cameo appearance in a story. Or sometimes it’s…

  • Why Laurie A Green Wrote INHERIT THE STARS

    When Pauline first invited me to write this guest blog on Why I Wrote Inherit the Stars, I didn’t know quite how to begin. Like several other manuscripts, Inherit the Stars has roots in a dream that planted just the kernel of an idea in my mind, a tiny snippet that clung to my consciousness…

  • Have You Heard of #AuthorTag?

    I honestly don’t remember how I old I was when that switch clicked in my head and I went from laboring through books to inhaling them. I became a reader when you could do two things for the authors that delighted you with their stories: You could keep reading their books (and if you had…