Elizabeth Baines

It's funny, the way one particular story will just take off and run and run - sometimes without your quite knowing about it, rather like...

Sorry for the blackout on my blogs at the moment: I'm up the mountain again, this time to help out with decorating work: too busy to blo...

Latest in the Salt Just One Book Campaign: you can nominate and vote for the book published by Salt which has been most important to you, an...

Ann suggested this 1987 novel which she'd enjoyed years ago, narrated by the adult Maggie who is looking back on a late-thirties and ear...

Well, here it is : the cover of my novel, Too Many Magpies , due from Salt 1st October. I love it - just the right kind of spookiness and s...

Well, the text pages of Too Many Magpies went to press last week I believe, but there's a delay with the cover as my poor overworked pu...

Here's the new online GCSE anthology of stories and poetry which includes my story from Balancing , 'Compass and Torch'. The we...

This week I've been writing a new short story, and yesterday I nearly finished the first draft. But the ending was so complicated and su...

You know the best way to while away a rainy or (here's hoping) hot August, don't you? Yes, with just one book (or 3, or 3) from Salt...

I have another nice Amazon Review titled High Wire Storytelling . You know, I'm amazed I'm telling you that, and how much my attitud...

This meeting was a mauling, and a pretty unfair one at that, since most of us hadn't even really read the book. Published in the early s...

I'm having a great time this week at the 24:7 Theatre Festival (though I'm getting a bit tired!). I've seen thirteen shows so f...

I've had a really lovely new review on Amazon for Balancing, entitled 'Fabulous Collection', and which includes these sentences...

Last night I went down to 24:7 again and saw the truly fabulous Lub You at Pure (Blue). This to me was a riveting piece of physical theatre,...

Well, it rained. Every so often a great deluge started hitting the tent roofs and drowning out the readers, most of whom really, honestly, w...

Thanks to the Just One Book campaign, Salt's own stocks of Balancing on the Edge of the World are now so low that they have only 4 copi...

It's nearly a month now since my first proofs for Too Many Magpies arrived, and it's only now that they are finished (I hope!). Ho...

Next weekend there's to be another great three-day Independent Book Fair in St Ann's Square Manchester, to coincide with the Manches...

The wonderful, estimable Sally Zigmond has written a lovely review of Balancing on the Edge of the World and Salt Publishing in general, ...

Balancing is reviewed today on the Biblio Blogazine, and I'm pleased to say that overall the book meets with approval there!