Pauline Baird Jones

  • What’s Your Trope?

    I got such fun and interesting responses from my blog post “What’s your Genre?” (both here and on Facebook), that I thought it would be fun to take it a step further. Several people mentioned looking for tropes, instead of specific genres. What’s a trope, you ask? A literary trope is the use of figurative…

  • Why Rachel Leigh Smith Wrote THE KING’S MISTRESS

    What Happens Next? Last time I visited Pauline, I bared my soul and shared what happened to me to lead me to writing My Name Is A’yen. Today I’m here to tell the next chapter of the story. When I started A’yen, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had no…

  • Why Veronica Scott Wrote ESCAPE FROM ZULAIRE

    Thanks for having me as your guest! Many years ago, I read “Shadow of the Moon,” by M. M. Kaye, which was a well researched (and very long) novel set in India in the mid 1800’s.  Much of the plot revolves round the Sepoy Rebellion or Incident, the terrible things that occurred during that time…