Thursday, July 23, 2009
Writers and their Friends
Fiona Robyn writes about the delicate matter of promotion for present-day writers.
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About Me
- Elizabeth Baines
- Writer of prose fiction and plays for radio and stage. My collection of short stories, Balancing on the Edge of the World, was published in Salt Modern Fiction (2007), and a new novel, Too Many Magpies, is just published by Salt.
The virtual tour of my collection of stories, Balancing on the Edge of the World. Discussions about the writing process, the writing life, and the stories in the book. Click on the picture to see list of host blogs
Issue 2 includes my short story 'The Choice Chamber'.
Other writings by me on the web
- Short is Beautiful. On the rise of the short story in the Writers Guild magazine, UK Writer
- Normblog profile
- Contributon to Normblog Writer's Choice series
- Contribution to John Baker's series Creating a Text
- A Confusion of Realities: on the critical reaction to Anne Enright's The Gathering, and its implications for how we read now. In 21 Journal
Followers
Links
- A Salted
- Andrew Philip's blog
- Barbara's Bleeuugh!
- Baroque in Hackney
- Bedside Crow
- Being Lucy Diamond
- Bloggerel: Alma Books and Oneworld Classics
- BookFox
- Bookslut
- Britlitblogs
- Charles Lambert
- Confessions of an Author
- Danuta Kean
- David Isaak
- Debi Alper
- Dove Grey Reader
- Dovegreyreader scribbles
- Elizabeth Baines
- Emma Darwin: This Itch of Writing
- Forgetting the Time
- Gawker
- Grumpy Old Bookman
- Guardian books blog
- How Publishing Really Works
- In Search of Adam
- Jenny Diski
- John Baker
- Julian Gough
- Keeper of the Snails
- Madame Arcati
- Maitresse
- Max Dunbar
- Me and My Big Mouth
- Miss Snark, the Literary Agent
- Mythusmage Opines
- Normblog
- Off the Page
- Paul Magrs
- Petrona
- Ready Steady Book
- Roger's Plog
- Salt Confidential
- Salt Office Life
- Sarah Salway
- Secret Office Confessions
- Shameless Words
- Sheenagh Pugh
- Smartish Pace
- Sue Guiney
- Tania Hershman
- That's So Pants
- The Age of Uncertainty
- The Art of Fiction
- The Arvon Blog
- The Cerebral Mum
- The Complete Review
- The Elegant Variation
- The Literary Saloon
- The Manchizzle
- The Reading Experience
- The Richard Madeley Appreciation Society
- The Sigla Blog
- Three Beautiful Things
- Tony Williams Poetry Blog
- Topsyturvydom
- Vanessa Gebbie's News
- velo-gubbed legs
- Verberate
- Volatile Rune
- Vulpes Libris
- Women Rule Writer
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- booker shortlist (1)
- Bookshops (5)
- Brick Lane (6)
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- Zadie Smith (3)
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