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Author: Carol

  • Poem: Stay for Breakfast

    They met, quite by chance, over breakfast – A buffet: fruit, pastries and such. Their hands landed on the same apple; Both started at each other’s touch. ‘I’m sorry,’ they said, and retreated. ‘After you.’ ‘No, go on – after you.’ So they both reached again, and they giggled; He knew then what he had…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: B is for Breakfast

    There’s a breakfast table. Now, there are so many options for you here: Who’s at the table? Is it you – and by you, I mean your character. Doesn’t have to be you personally – you can be anybody you want in creative writing.  So, who’s at the table – if anybody? If there’s a…

  • Short Fiction: A Hundred Paces

    I try to keep my hand still, the apple resting on my palm, so I try not to think of how I loathe him, because the loathing and the anger make my hand shake. Oh, everybody in the village thinks the sun shines out of him…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: A is for Apple

    Imagine an apple, or pick an apple up out of the fruit bowl. In your mind or in reality, have a really good look at it. Feel its skin. Smell it. Cut it open or bite into it. Is it firm and you worry that it’ll bring your teeth out, or is it a bit…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club

    In January 2024 Louise Hulland and I started up a writing club on BBC Local Radio in the East – and it’s also available to listen to anywhere in the country online! Please join us every other Monday afternoon (give or take a bank holiday or annual leave) and I’ll set a prompt for you…

  • Publication Day!

    Publication Day!

    Here at the McCaw office we are quite giddy with excitement because it’s official publication day for Gingerbread Children! And within a couple of minutes we’d had our first order, and then another, and then another! We’re thrilled to bits.  Thanks to everybody who’s supported us.

  • Fever pitch

    Fever pitch

    Much excitement in the McCaw office – oh, we love taking delivery of new books! Soon these gorgeous wee things will be on their way to bookshops and customers.