Elizabeth Baines

Here's another image which I'll always associate with the time I was starting out on the present draft of my current novel. It was a...

I imagine it's the same for other writers - though strangely, I've never heard anyone else say this - but when I'm involved in a...

The virtual tour for Too Many Magpies comes to roost today on the blog of Tania Hershman , fellow Salt author whose wonderful story collec...

Nice evening yesterday in Chorlton Library, reading for Chorlton Arts Festival . It wasn't a huge audience - which indeed I didn't e...

This is what I feel a cross-section of my brain must have looked like while I was beginning work on the present novel. On my current visit t...

I had a lovely surprise yesterday afternoon: a story I had entered for the Bristol Short Story Prize had made it to the longlist . I was ama...

Today the virtual tour for Too Many Magpies alights on the blog of fellow Salt author Nuala Ni Chonchuir. As well as asking about the...

Warning: plot-spoilers. I have found it impossible to report our discussion without disclosing the outcome of the plot of this novel. Clare ...

Issue 4 is now online, and includes a new story of mine, one of a series I've been writing on the theme of uncertainty. Nuala Ni Chonch...

This week's stop on the virtual book tour for Too Many Magpies is at the blog of the thoughtful and erudite John Baker, whose own tou...

Here are the coloured fibre-tipped pens with which I have been working out a new plan/structure for my novel in progress (I love em! I could...

A fascinating article in yesterday's Observer discussed the different covers given to the same book in different countries. I'm a...

Today is the day I start flying around the blogosphere with my latest novel Too Many Magpies , and the first blog I alight on is that of w...

Whoops, seems there was a glitch and I got the wrong Wikio Top UK culture blog rankings for May - and turns out this blog is SECOND! Crikey,...

Here's a preview of Wikio's 30 top UK culture blogs * for May (live tomorrow), and I'm delighted and bemused again to find that...

Well, amidst all the debate about Waterstone's and the extent to which it supports smaller presses and their writers, I am able to repor...

Yesterday was Earth Day, and Eco-Libris (with whom I'm collaborating to plant trees for the copies printed of my books) posted a list of...

Well, I've been working on the proofs for The Birth Machine , my first novel which is to be reissued by Salt in October. This will be ...

Ann suggested this book because she had attended a lecture given by an American academic, in which he had advanced the notion that fiction i...

Tell you what, marketing is the trickiest of things. I've had a lovely review from Benjamin Judge for Too Many Magpies , but he begins ...