Joanna Bourne

A kindly reader has asked a few questions.  I paraphrase the questions and answer them below, in case anyone is interested. Lucille s...

A careful, kind and intelligent reader asked me why, in Black Hawk, I used the word 'antiseptic' long before the germ theory and w...

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...

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

I'm HERE , at WMRA radio, talking about writing books and my life and my philosophy of storytelling and probably a few other things th...

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...

Pretty cover, isn't it? This title may be unique in that it contains two words I have to 'think about' before I can spell th...

Oh wow. Black Hawk has made an incredible showing in the All About Romance Reader's Poll. Here . (People liked it!!  They rea...

At Romcon.   An excerpt (where they're about to make love.)   Here . At Jeannie Lin 's blog.  A fellow author's take on Bla...

This is soooo overtaken by events.  Just read right on through.

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

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

Wednesday afternoon, at three o'clock, I turned in the editorial revisions of Black Hawk .   Now I await the copyedits.  We are just mov...

In celebration of February 19th, (why should one not celebrate February 19th, eh?) and because the excellent Annie asked -- here is a short...

I'm guesting today over at Word Wenches, with an interview and everything.  It's all here . The 'everything' includes a ch...

Wonderful reader Eva writes to ask .. haven't found anything to help me understand how Grey & Adrian were captured and put in that...