Joanna Bourne

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

Someone mentioned -- this is a kinda summary and paraphrase here -- the unlikelihood that our Hero and Heroine would fight a pitched ba...

I was thinking about how we do fight scenes.  I'm kinda writing one.  Though not quite. It's more an ambush scene. So, anyhow,  ...

Jess, Maggie, Annique and Justine.  Four heroines. Four gems. Which gem goes with which heroine? Can you match 'em up? Fi...

Martha, in the comment trail, asked about scenes that don't make it into the final book. As a generality, there are Good Reasons why s...

Kind reader, Eva, writes with some questions about My Lord and Spymaster . I thought I'd bring 'em out and talk about them here. (Sh...

Here's an outtake from My Lord and Spymaster. I refer to it in a later post. Here it is, in full, for anyone who wants to see it. In ...

In My Lord and Spymaster , I had a dozen nuggets of backstory to pass along to the reader. So I wrote a Talking Heads scene. Adrian and Seba...

Emlyn says ... And because you mentioned that Annique resembled a young Natasha Kinski, could you put a face on Adrian as well? And Jess ...

For anyone interested in what Annique looks like ... I kinda pictured her as a young Natassja Kinski. Can't post her picture, not havi...

I've been backtracking in Chapters five and six to fine-tune reactions and tighten prose. Sebastian's persona seems a bit squidgy. S...