Elizabeth Baines

Writing, you might think, is a pretty safe occupation. After all, you are at your desk most of the day and so more unlikely than most to a) ...

After blogging so little recently (because I'm so immersed in my writing) I'm going to make you groan. You'll know if you'v...

I've been asked by blogger Fat Roland to let you know about the the Flash Mob Competition he's helping to run and judge for the Cho...

I haven't been going out much at all lately - for the first time in my life I don't particularly want to: when I finish actually wr...

On Wednesday I had a great evening at Edge Hill University, when the winner of last year's Edge Hill Short Story Prize, Jeremy Dyson, r...

Clare suggested this PEN/Faulkner-Award winning novel, Annie Proulx's first, which charts the fate of the Bloods, a Vermont farming fami...

When I was in London last week I happened to be passing Gower Street Waterstone's and popped in, and lookey-here! So there's one pl...

Well, it was great! Great to get away from the desk and the WIP on Wednesday - even if it did feel like pulling off a big sticking plaster ...

Sorry not to be blogging much at the moment: I'm very immersed in my WIP and hardly able to hear what people are saying to me, leave alo...

I was delighted to be invited by Claire Molinari, Chair of Sheffield's Local & Live Community Theatre , to read and talk yesterda...

If you don't already know about it, do go on over to Nicola Morgan's blog to read about her great idea for contributing to World Bo...

Today I had one of those moments that can make an author's entire week. Last time I went into Waterstone's Deansgate they had four c...

Here's a laugh: last week I had an article on The View from Here in which I said that when I'm really immersed in my writing I can ...

Ann suggested this book in which a history teacher narrator, Tom Crick, due to lose his post for traumatic personal reasons, relates - both ...

When I set out to write The Birth Machine , was my chief aim to address the issue of hi-tech childbirth and to set the profession of Obstetr...

I know I don't need to enumerate here for my lovely blog readers the reasons we need to save our libraries from the government slashfest...

Prompted by the Faber Academy discussion about Creative Writing on Fictionbitch, here's my own (ambivalent) take on one particular as...

Trevor suggested this 1952 novel , Vonnegut's first, which takes place in an America where, after another war, machines have taken over ...

Well, the top floor of Waterstone's Deansgate in Manchester may now be mainly a restaurant, and its ground floor half given over to Pap...

Today on the Faber blog, Faber Academy's Ian Ellard takes up the debate - Why write? - at its most radical level, with an historical ...