Pauline Baird Jones

  • Not Quite Fan Mail #BirdsCanBeBitter

    So, the word is out that Found Girl, has flamingos in there. I got a lovely thank you note from a flamingo. Dear Author, Good job. Yours on one leg, Chilean Flamingo But some other birds are pushing back. Here are some of the comments I’m getting from birds (translated for your convenience, of course):…

  • How to Grow Your TBR

    Do you know how to build a TBR (to-be-read) pile that does not rob you of all livable space, or cause you to loose husband/children/significant other/other necessities of life? Then you have come to the right place. When I first began building my TBR (and my side project a Keeper shelf), I was focused on volume.…

  • Why Tonya Cannariato Wrote The Builders

    This story started as many of mine do: As a compelling dream. In it, a woman with amazing body art was depressed because she’d been sent on a mission to find “generators” for her dying race, and she was failing her quest. Her understanding of the word meant she’d all but whored herself out testing…

  • Getting My Print On

    In between shaking down my muse for words, I’ve been working on getting all my books into print. Okay, I know some of them have been “in print,” as used editions for a long time. A really long time. And I won’t blame you at all if you pull up my books, look at pricing,…

  • Why Carol Van Atta Wrote The Central Galactic Concordance Collection, Books 1-3

    The talented, multi-genre author Pauline and I have been online friends for a couple of years now, so when she asked why I wrote The Central Galactic Concordance Collection, Books 1-3, my short answer was “because I’ve finally written enough books to make it worthwhile.” Smartassery aside, the more informative answer is to explain why…

  • Why Veronica Scott Wrote The Captive Shifter

    Thank you so much for having me as your guest today to talk about the inspiration for The Captive Shifter (Magic of Claddare Book 1)! I’ve said this before but I regard coming to your blog to tell the “story behind the story” of each new book as a good luck charm for my new…

  • Keeping Hope Going #Monday #Smackdown

    So, last week was one of “those” weeks where I got three and a half days of Monday, which totally hosed “hump” day and some other stuff. I won’t dwell on what turned my days into one unending Monday because whine-one-one is not that fun for the person on the receiving end of it. But,…

  • Why Jolie Mason Wrote Home is the Sailor

    Does it count if I say “It’s complicated”? I wanted to write a story based around a ship because I was going through Serenity withdrawals, but, as I wrote, it became something more. These captains became friends, and the Carry Bell became a kind of home. Home is the Sailor is a second chance romance,…

  • Friends With Books

    I was visiting with a friend recently—a friend I have never met face-to-face and probably never will—about books (wonders of the internet!). It got me thinking about book friends, or friends with books. In the olden days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and all books were paper, friends with books were like a chest of…

  • Why Cynthia Sax Wrote Dark Thoughts

    Dark Thoughts is the first standalone story in a four story spinoff series from the cyborg series. We first meet Kralj, the scarred mind-reading hero of Dark Thoughts, in Chasing Mayhem. Readers don’t need to read that story to enjoy Dark Thoughts. That was when I KNEW I had to write this story. The cyborgs…