Joanna Bourne

I was thinking the other day about how we create characters, since I'm trying to do some of that.   What are the ingredients we knead an...

Here's the publication order of the six books of the Spymaster Fictive Universe. It's a perfectly fine order to read them ...

WARNING:  HERE BE SPOILERS I've had a couple people come away from the timeline of the books a little confused.  In fact, the sound...

Dear All -- This is a wonderful opportunity to get a Free Copy of the most excellent Forbidden Rose audiobook. The contest is over ...

A wonderful reader wrote, asking "What sorts of resources do you use to make your cities--London and Paris, in particular--so convin...

Most Excellent Reader Elizabeth asks: "Could you talk about how you come up with all the various capers and escapades for your sp...

This topic is dedicated to all those people who keep working and working and changing stuff and rewriting but never quite get past the fir...

I was writing to excellent reader Ann today, talking about the blog post I did on how we write about Regency-era slums and got to thinkin...

Forbidden Rose is coming to Italy.  Here .  I think maybe today.  I am so happy. If you have an Italian grandmother, this will doubtless m...

Someone asks, more or less -- I want to write a scene about the first kiss. I  want the setting to be special but anything I'm coming...

Elsewhere, someone writes, pretty much: My characters never develop beyond something used to fill a gap in the story or follow the plot as...