Elizabeth Baines

Here's Salt director Chris Hamilton-Emery's latest Facebook note about the Just One Book campaign: the low-down on the amazing succe...

So often when I come here to the family house in Wales, I'm busy helping with the never-ending work on the house, or I'm here to wri...

Just two little fluffy clouds this morning, the mountain seeming a different world from usual - something like Greece - and four out of six ...

Well, it's a glorious day on the mountain today - soft fluffy clouds in the valley down below when I woke, now burned off by the sun, an...

I'm up the mountain in Wales at the moment, so I may not be online much for the next few days - it's always worst in bad weather, an...

I'm up the mountain in Wales at the moment, so I may not be online much for the next few days - it's always worst in bad weather, an...

My book, Balancing on the Edge of the World , and Tania Hershman's The White Road and Other Stories still on the Amazon UK Bestselling ...

Latest in the Salt Just One Book campaign: the website hits have gone through the roof and 643 new orders are in process. My own order ar...

I'm really thrilled that Matt Bell has written about my story 'Daniel Smith Disappears off the Face of the Earth' for his 15th ...

Bookseller article here about the Just One Book Campaign . Chris Hamilton-Emery says that there were 400 orders in 24 hours. How wonderful!...

Do you think maybe I need psychiatric help? You see, I find it really hard to believe sometimes when I hit a bit of writing success. Like th...

Does this ever happen to you? Sometimes I go into a room and there are two people wearing the same colour and standing in a configuration th...

Well, tonight my book Balancing on the Edge of the World is on the Amazon bestseller short story list at no 49, and Tania Hershman's ...

Shed some Salty tears at this:

Although they have worked wonders in the present climate, Salt Publishing are facing a financial crisis, and have put out an appeal asking ...

Ah, time to announce this, I see : Short Circuit: A Salt Publishing Guide to the Art of the Short Story, edited by Vanessa Gebbie, due Septe...

An article I wrote for the Writers' Guild magazine, UK Writer, on the rise of the short story has just gone online .

Hans suggested this book, which we all very much liked, after a German friend had recommended it to him: we hadn't heard of it, but in f...

I am so flattered: the wonderful Sue Guiney has given me a Kreativ Blogger award - which comes with a sting as I have to list 7 things I lo...

I love Liverpool. It's this kind of place: last night at 6.15 John was parking the car near Lime Street Station and I was studying the ...