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...

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...

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...

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

My Romance Trading Cards -- here .  I'll be handing these out at the RT Convention and at RWA National.  I don't know which one is g...

You've probably asked yourself, from time to time, if there are any Shakespeare  quotes about goldfish. Did Shakespeare say, "Th...

Christine Wells said, over on the Berkley-Jove board : here And Jo, about talking your way out rather than hitting someone--do you think th...

I blog over at the Berkley Jove site. Here. And I wrote a long and involved post and thought I'd compound the offense by double posting ...

I was thinking about spies, today, and how we represent them in fiction. My Maggie is fallen among English spies even as I speak. The more I...