Joanna Bourne

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

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,  ...

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...

My French copy of My Lord and Spymaster is out  from J'ai Lu.   Lovely cover.  Just lovely. This translates as 'The Master of My H...

I'm gearing up to make the Romance Trading Cards for Adrian.  I have a few possible faces and I  . . . I just don't know. These ...

I'm talking about Sticks and Canes over at Word Wenches. I am now a Word Wench. *jo hugs herself madly* This is so wonderful. I ...

Down in the comments section, some folks were wondering -- What order should the books be read in? The order in which they were written? ...

I delight in animals . . . all kinds -- from wild tigers to tame kitty cats.  The feistier they are, the better I like them.  I try to put a...

Here you see me hauling advice back from another spot so I can give it twice. The question was -- 'Should I pay an editor or Book Doct...

One of several unprofitable debates in writing circles is whether it's better to 'Outline and Plan' or better to be a 'Pants...

Good news of various types. First off: My Lord and Spymaster will be coming out in French.  That's a little surprise for me.  My un...