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Too Many Magpies by Elizabeth Baines

October 28, 2010 by Diane Becker

I finished Too Many Magpies in three bedtime reads (something I rarely do!). Mesmerised from start to finish. As a reader I identified with it to a (sometimes) uncomfortable degree – loved the prose and the way the elements and characters were mirrored/entwined. A unique experience, seldom read anything by a UK writer that has had so marked an effect! Read this and other reviews of Too Many Magpies here Latest news from Elizabeth Baines

Categories: Fiction, Reviews, What I'm reading • Tags: elizabeth baines, Fiction, review, salt publishing, Too Many Magpies, Too Many Magpies by Elizabeth Baines

A big think about writing

December 1, 2009 by Diane Becker

I’ve been having a (post-NaNo) BIG THINK about my writing. I finished my last (OU) creative writing course in May (A363 Advanced Creative Writing) and though I’ve written a lot of words since then I have only submitted one short story (4000 words) – deemed ‘intriguing’ but ‘difficult to place’ by the editor I sent it to in June and who refrained from telling me until September that he wasn’t going to publish it. So I’ve sat on this story […]

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