Elizabeth Baines

Everything's done and dusted for me at the moment, writing-wise, and I'm actually getting back to my life! Yesterday I did a waist-h...

Well, I expected that when I got to the end of my big writing stint I'd get back to blogging more frequently, but it hasn't happened...

An excellent new book from Faber, The Good of the Novel , edited by Liam McIlvanney and Ray Ryan, is a series of essays on the nature and c...

I suggested this book as one of my favourites, one that I said had made a lasting impression on me and which I have always recommended to an...

About sixteen months ago I attended a meeting of women writers in Manchester, called in response to the difficulties that the increasing c...

Oh dear. I have printed out copies of the ms for my three early readers, I have punched holes in two of them. And every time I glance at it ...

An amazing cacophony this morning: the baby jackdaws in the nest nearby hadn't flown before I got back from Wales after all, and they fl...

Back in Manc this evening and about to work some on the novel again. John said in retrospect that he felt I needed a different emphasis in o...

Here's the latest stunning shop window display in Palas Print in Caernarfon - that's a real model boat in which those books are sta...

I have come to North Wales to edit the novel and have a bit of a rest and change of scene after my long slog. The weather's weird: you w...

I discovered the other day what kind of crows are nesting in the eaves nearby, just along from where I've been writing my novel. No lon...

The internet is really amazing. The story 'Leaf Memory' is one of the very oldest in Balancing on the Edge of the World . It first a...

Can't help identifying with these insects in my garden. In the poppies the bees are  not only frenziedly busy but seem utterly drunk, a...

On Monday I came to the end of the current draft of the wip (I've written on Fictionbitch about the all-consuming nature of the proces...

Doug suggested this novel because, he said somewhat provocatively, he thought it was time we had a 'boys' book'. In fact, it...

Recently, the online bookstore Printsasia asked me to write a guest post about my recent books for their blog (you can read it here ). It...

I'm too immersed in my wip at the moment to cope with anything much else besides - I keep forgetting to pay bills and buy food, even. ...

I've only just found out about this, and there's only until midnight on Sunday to do it, but I thought I'd draw your attention ...

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...