Elizabeth Baines

Very excited to hear that my forthcoming mini-collection from Confingo, Five Different Stories About One Thing, is about to go to print!

‘We’re working to root out medical misogyny and ensure mo... To avoid preventable deaths, we must dismantle a culture that allows the dismissal of human experience

My first novel The Birth Machine tackled this problem (among others). (You can still get it on Kindle.)
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Thanks to @bookishleels.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social for the image I mention in Part 1.

Listen to "The Facts and Fiction of Short Story Writing (with Ailsa Cox) [Part one]" by A Small, Good Thing via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...

Reading group: By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano Clare suggested this novella narrated by Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who has also been a literary critic and poet. It is a d...

A thought-provoking read - with more relevance to our current times than we might once have expected.
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Reading group: The Trees by Percival Everett This is going to be a short post, as I don't want to plot spoil.  Ann had recently read this genre-defying book and had been unable to put i...

This was a really great read.
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Lovely, thank you!

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Circle, Squaring The Circle When Geoff joins a babysitting circle, his wife Jenny knows he’s up to something.

Only just found out that my my radio comedy series The Circle has had another airing, but there's still a chance to hear it from the first episode.
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Thanks!

Does it ever stop being a thrill when you see your book on a bookshop shelf? Many thanks, Waterstone's Deansgate, Manchester.

Reading group: Wildlife by Richard Ford Some time ago we read Richard Ford's The Sportswriter and I was surprised to find it, along with most of our group, fairly tedious and even...

Re-reading a novel years later can be an interesting experience.
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Reading group: The Waves by Virginia Woolf This was the one book by Virginia Woolf that Margeret, who loved her work, had not read. Introducing it to the group, she joked that having ...

Our reading group had a go at Virginia Woolf's The Waves. Here's what was said.
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The amazing artist Laura Scott has agreed to provide images for my forthcoming mini-collection from Confingo, Five Different Stories About One Thing. I'm pretty thrilled! Here's her instagram account where you can see her stunning work.
www.instagram.com/_ls_illustration/

Pleased to say that my speculative novella The Mountain is to be published by Gold SF, and imprint of Goldsmiths Press, in one volume along with several short stories. Many thanks to the editors, Paul March-Russell and Una McCormack.

Springtime in Castlefield. Patricia Farrell, @elizabethbaines.bsky.social @confingopublishing.bsky.social and the other one is me.

It was a great night. Brilliant readings from @ailsacox.bsky.social and really interesting thoughts from Ailsa and Patricia. And a lovely audience.

Book Launch - Precipitation by Ailsa Cox, with images by Patricia Farrell | confingo We hope you'll join us at the wonderful Saul Hay Gallery to celebrate the launch of Precipitation, a collection of stories by Ailsa Cox with images by Patricia Farrell

See you in Manchester @confingopublishing.bsky.social @elizabethbaines.bsky.social, two days to go. www.confingopublishing.uk/event-detail...

Book Launch - Precipitation by Ailsa Cox, with images by Patricia Farrell | confingo We hope you'll join us at the wonderful Saul Hay Gallery to celebrate the launch of Precipitation, a collection of stories by Ailsa Cox with images by Patricia Farrell

Really looking forward to this. I'll be presenting, and talking to Ailsa Cox about her brilliant new collection. Next Wednesday, April 2nd, 7.30 pm at the Saul Hay Gallery, Castlefield, Manchester.
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I must read them!!

Reading group: Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin This very short Argentinian novel, suggested by Doug, was a shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. We were all immediately attr...

Our latest reading group discussion. Not everyone admired this book, but most did.
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Join us at the Saul Hay Gallery on 2nd April to celebrate the publication of Precipitation by Ailsa Cox, with images by Patricia Farrell. 7.30 - 9.00 p.m. Tickets (free) available on our website: www.confingopublishing.uk/event-list

Astral Travel Adult

Been doing the final edits on my next book, a mini-collection from Confingo. Nail-biting time. What if I miss any real bloopers, as I did in my last novel, Astral Travel. (A free copy of any of my other books to the first five readers who spot them and DM me.)
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The CRA are standing with all creators and performers, sending a clear message to UK Government; Make it Fair - stop siding with big tech and ensure that creators are fairly rewarded when their work is used to train AI. #makeitfair #PaytheCreator. Read more: www.creatorsrightsalliance.org

A photosplat of the readings from last night’s Edge Hill Prize ceremony. Huge congratulations to Malachi McIntosh and Tessa Hadley for well deserved wins! And congratulations to all the other shortlistees – Charlie Hill, Abi Hynes, and C.D. Rose. I felt very honoured to be part of the line-up!

A lovely launch last night for this great collection of short stories by Jane Rogers

Tickets selling fast for this, apparently. Winners of the Withington Book Festival Competition, and a group of us supporting them.

Next reading! Join me and David Gaffney, Elizabeth Baines, Nicholas Royle, Adrian Slatcher, Steve Smythe, Nathan Bailey and Lee Ashworth at Greenhouse Books in Stockport’s hip Underbanks on Saturday 1 March, 6.30pm. Maybe we'll redo this pic from last year!

It is!

Today I'm doing the edits for a collection of five linked stories - never done that before (written linked stories). To be pub'd by Confingo later this year in their collaborative mini-collection series. See Precipitation by @ailsacox.bsky.social and Loners by @adrianslatcher.bsky.social