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Pauline Baird Jones: United States

Hometown:: Houston TX

About Me:: Pauline Baird Jones is the award-winning author of eight novels of action-adventure, suspense, romantic suspense and comedy-mystery. She's also written two non-fiction books, Adapting Your Novel for Film and Made-up Mayhem. Her seventh novel, Out of Time, an action-adventure romance set in World War II, is an EPPIE 2007 winner in the single title/mainstream category. Her eighth novel, The Key, will release in 2007 from LL Dreamspell.

Website:: www.paulinebjones.com

Books And Authors I Like:: Mary Stewart, Diana L. Driver, Georgette Heyer, Elizabeth Cadell, Alastair Mclean,Pepper Smith.

Movies And TV Shows I Like:: MONK, Ugly Betty, Men in Trees,House

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Pick A Genre, Any Genre

Added a post Apr. 9, 2007

Weird Ass Book. or Big Ass Book. Read More »

I've seen first novels that were wonderful, with subsequent being less so. Some where they get steadily better. Some where the author starts okay, gets great, then peaks and begins to fade. And, ha... Read More »

Crossed genre identity crisis

Added a post Mar. 26, 2007

I cross genre lines a lot. What I do is target the genre to whoever I'm talking/writing to. I don't work with an agent and I publish with small presses, so I can do what I want. Read More »

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The Key is now available in print!

My eighth novel, THE KEY is now available on amazon and at the discounted price! And I'm doing a giveaway. My sister made me these really cool bookmarks for the launch (that you can see here: http://www.paulinebjones.com/contests.htm and there are more on the way.) So, buy THE KEY, send me proof of purchase and I'll send one to the first responders until they are gone. :-)
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Posted by Pauline Baird Jones on September 7th, 2007 at 4:10am — No Comments (Add)

Monday...

I'm being stalked by a character from the book I just finished. He's mad because he didn't star in the last book and he thinks he's a star.

I've had characters that I knew I was going to write about later, but I've never had a character be so insistent that I misjudged him. He wasn't exactly a bad guy in the book, but he wasn't all good either. And I gave him a terrible name for a lead.

Now I'm trying to find him a good middle name that we both can live with...
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Posted by Pauline Baird Jones on April 10th, 2007 at 6:15am — 4 Comments (Add)

I'm Curious...

On one of my other author loops, we've been deep in a discussion about what would be the perfect ebook reading device. Obviously, opinions are as varied as the people involved in the discussion. <g>

I feel like I've got that covered. I've been a proponent of e-reading for a long time. When the hubby and I moved from New Orleans to Houston--as empty nesters--we had to downsize everything...and that included my extensive book collection. But I'd been adding to my ebook collection be…

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Posted by Pauline Baird Jones on March 30th, 2007 at 1:13am — No Comments (Add)

The Perils of Pauline

I'm excited to be a new arrival at crimespace. I'm a huge fan of fictional crimes (since real crime can get you strip searched and jail time). I love reading about it and I love writing about it. While my books are all over the map genre-wise, they do have a central theme: peril.

Someone is always in peril. Someone will die. Bad guys will be stopped. Happy endings are not optional.

If you remember those old, campy melodramas, then you'll know where I…

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Posted by Pauline Baird Jones on March 24th, 2007 at 3:32am — 2 Comments (Add)

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At 12:43am on March 30th, 2007, Pauline Baird Jones said…: Hi, Tony, nice to see you here, too! :-)

Well, Life would be really boring without those curve balls. I don't actually mind an ending that is not...neat, if it still feels satisfying and right. And I love being surprised by an ending. If someone can make me think, wow, that was way cool, you know I'll be hunting for more books/stories by that author.

At 1:45pm on March 29th, 2007, Tony Burton said…: Hi, Pauline! Glad to see you here. I'm one of those who generally likes happy endings, too, although once in a while I like to throw people a curve ball.

At 11:21pm on March 24th, 2007, Pauline Baird Jones said…: This is an easy place to decorate. Very cool to just click stuff and other stuff appears. Wish my house were this easy.

At 2:53pm on March 24th, 2007, Angie said…: Ah, c'mon! You're never too old for a good strip search!

Just dropping by to say hello & welcome. Looks like you've already started decorating & getting settled in!

At 8:37am on March 24th, 2007, Pauline Baird Jones said…: LOL! At my age, it is.

At 7:24am on March 24th, 2007, Tribe said…: "real crime can get you strip searched and jail time"

you say that as if it were a bad thing...

At 4:53am on March 24th, 2007, Pauline Baird Jones said…: Hi, Cyndy! Thanks for the kind welcome. Looking forward to finding my way around this place.

And showing me what chatter is.
cheers,
Pauline