Pauline Baird Jones 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."  

Her books have garnered the following awards:

The Key, an Independent Book Bronze Medal (IPPY) for 2008; a 2007 Dream Realm Awards Winner.

Out of Time, EPPIE 2007 winner.

Pig in a Park (aka The Spy Who Kissed Me), first electronic book to be nominated for Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice award; Dorothy Parker Award for excellence. (It will re-release as an expanded edition from L&L Dreamspell as The Spy Who Kissed Me.)

The Last Enemy, first Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice award for E-Books, 2000.

Byte Me, a Reviewer's Top Pick for 2000, RunningRiver Reader; nominated for the Best Ebook Reviewer's Choice Award from Romantic Times Magazine; EPPIE 2001 Finalist.

Missing You, Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice award for Best Small Press Romance.

Do Wah Diddy Die, EPPIE 2001 Finalist.

Pauline received the eBook Excellence Award in December 2000, awarded to those who strive for excellence in the e-publishing industry, and an ePub Ambassador Award in 1999. She also won a Fire To Fly award in 1998 from Futures Magazine for an article she co-wrote on electronic publishing.

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