Pauline was born and raised in Wyoming, and then lived in New Orleans with her husband and children for 18 years before moving to Houston TX in 2003. For four years, she wrote a humor column for her Wyoming hometown paper, The Lovell Chronicle, about adjusting to life in New Orleans (which is the polar opposite of Wyoming!).
She's always loved reading and writing, but prefers to give arithmetic a pass. Her blend of suspense and humor is, she believes, a natural outcome of growing up in a large family. "Lots of love and laughter," she says, "but you're never quite sure you'll survive your siblings' idea of what's fun."
She published her first novel in 1998 and is amazed to be releasing her ninth novel, Girl Gone Nova, in 2010, with a steampunk novella, Tangled in Time, to follow later in the year. She's also had stories in six anthologies and has three non-fiction handbooks for writers.
She explains the shift into writing science fiction romance, for her last two novels, at first made her panic. Then she remembered that her high school science was, according to her teachers, fictional then, too. Her contemporary readers might be puzzled by this change in direction, but Pauline points out that the new books have her signature suspense, action and humor. Only the setting has changed.
"I've always followed my Muse where it takes me, even if I need to don mental speed jeans (g-suit) for the ride. And my books have always had a strong action/adventure bent, all the way back to The Spy Who Kissed Me."
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The Mystery of the Green Mist includes a delightful assortment of stories, from cozy to creepy, by ten talented authors, including the shorty story DELETING DENNIS by Pauline Baird Jones .
Capri Hinkenlooper thought her name - and Monday mornings - were the worst things in her life, but then her fellow editor and all around slimy guy gets deleted with her letter opener. On the upside, the two homicide detectives investigating the murder are seriously cute...Other stories in this anthology include Mystery of the Green Mist by Linda Houle; The House on Grays Prairie Road by Sally Love; The Clue in the Crumbling Cottage by Jo A. Hiestand; Trust No One by Morgan St. James; Between Friends by D. Nathan Hilliard; The Scent of Blood by Cherri Galbiati; Death Hereafter by Jacqueline Seewald; Reservoir of Death by Sylvia Nickels; The Mystery of Moonstone Manor by Randy Rohn.
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