Elizabeth Baines

I can't write at the moment, and here's why. The room in which I like to write is an attic room, under the sloping ceiling with n...

Today I received my contributor's copy of Unthology 7 (Unthank), soon to be officially published, which includes my story, 'Looki...

Over on Fictionbitch , there's a guest post by Penelope Farmer, famous for her classic children's novel Charlotte Sometimes.  Pe...

Another book very much liked and admired by everyone present at the meeting. Suggested by John, this novel, published in America in 1965 to...

A couple of afternoons late last November I planted these daffodils and a whole load more. Earlier, in October, John had come back from B...

Here's the great cover of the latest Unthology , the series which has been said to be 'quietly becoming a reliable guide to the ...

This recent novel, Jenny's suggestion, is based on the real-life experiences of the four wives of Ernest Hemingway. It consists of fou...

A couple of Saturdays ago I went to a private view of Barry White's paintings at Stockport Art Gallery. Barry's paintings are a...

There's a question that nearly always comes up in interviews and Q&As: What do you write with: a pencil or pen or straight onto ...

We're in the process of deciding on a cover for my new collection of short stories which takes the title of the first story, 'Used t...

Recently I got to the end of a big writing project, a rewrite. Because it was a rewrite, and therefore, I predicted, time-manageable, and...

I'm so very happy to be on Salt's short story list: the company is amazing, and not least among them is Carys Davies, whose colle...

Back to consensus. Ever since I reviewed this novel  in the summer, I have been recommending it to all and sundry, so naturally I suggeste...

Warning: plot spoiler. So much for the consensus we seemed to be developing in our reading group - though it  was  all of the rest of us...

I am thrilled that a new collection of stories by me is to be published in August by the wonderful Salt Publishing (who published my first...

If the last few meetings are anything to go by, our group seems to be developing a consensus about books - a bit of a change from some of ...

Happy New Year to all! It's been a funny time-lapse sort of year for me, writing-wise. All last winter I holed in and worked intensive...

Great news yesterday that my story 'Looking for the Castle' is to be included in Unthology 7, due from Unthank Books in the summer. ...

It's a funny, once you start a new novel all your eggs are in the new basket, and you're striving to achieve things you feel you hav...