Pauline Baird Jones

  • Why Karen McCullough Wrote Hunter’s Quest

    I wrote the first draft of Hunter’s Quest almost twenty years ago. It was written in response to a call from a publisher for a specific type of book. It made it through two rounds of editorial cuts, but not the final one because it was deemed not exactly what was wanted for the new…

  • 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…

  • Why Carrie Pack Wrote In The Present Tense

    I wrote In the Present Tense for a lot of reasons. First and foremost, I’ve always wanted to write about time travel and I really thought I would simply craft my own take on the well-known trope and that would be that. But as I began to write, I realized that I was using the…

  • Why Linda Mooney Wrote MINE UNTIL MIDNIGHT

    I first discovered sci-fi romances with Janelle Taylor’s Moondust and Madness. Since then I’ve tried to read as much science fiction romance, and sci-fi with romantic elements, as I could get my hands on. But in so many cases many of the stories these past few years have all felt the same. Since I began…

  • Why Did Rosalie Redd Write UNTOUCHABLE LOVER

    Hi Pauline, thanks for having me on your blog. Why did I write Untouchable Lover? That’s a great question. The characters in my head wouldn’t leave me alone until I did. Well, ok, that’s part of the answer. The rest is I wanted to write a story that had a happy ending. I wanted to…

  • Why Lea Kirk Wrote PROPHECY

    Thank you, Pauline, for inviting me here today, and for asking why I wrote Prophecy. The seed for Prophecy was planted 30+ years ago while I was still in high school. (You all can stop counting now, you hear?) It started with, well, a different question. What would happen if aliens invaded during the school…

  • Why She Wrote VENDETTA

    Vendetta is the newest book in the Deadly Curiosities urban fantasy series, set in historic, haunted Charleston, SC. It’s not only the second book in the series; it’s also a chance for readers to revisit the characters and settings they met in the first book (Deadly Curiosities) and deepen their understanding of the people, places…

  • Prince Humperdinck Gets to Live (or why….)

    Or, Why She Wrote Farryn’s War At the end of my third novel, there’s a fight in which the villain of the piece was originally plotted to die. Fortunately for him, I’d become so intrigued with the possibilities he presented that I couldn’t bear to follow through with it. I decided that he, like Prince…

  • Why Teresa Noelle Roberts Wrote BAD KITTY

    I blame and thank my husband for my new science fiction romance Bad Kitty, and indeed for the entire Chronicles of the Malcolm series. I’ve read science fiction since childhood, but I hadn’t seen many science fiction TV shows until I met my husband. He decided to remedy this gap in my education and introduced…

  • She Wrote a Bold New World

    SFR: A Bold New World…for me I’m not a newbie. Far from it. I’ve been writing romance for…counts on fingers…takes off socks…almost 14 years now. As with all writers, the writing – and the business – hasn’t been easy, and it hasn’t moved quickly. There have been ups and downs as I figured out what…