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Author: Carol

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: Q is for Queue

    Q is for Queue or Queueing. Queue – the only word where you can take four of its letters out and it doesn’t change the sound of it. We’ve all had to do it – wait our turn, stand in line, watch another queue going faster than ours… Think of all the places you can…

  • Short Fiction: A Random Click of the Shutter

    Everything in the bungalow was neat and pristine, except the photo frame. Its glass was clouded from her fingerprints, but she didn’t care. She’d taken the snap at her daughter’s wedding, miraculously capturing an unguarded moment of laughter between her husband and her daughter. A random click of the shutter became the treasured image of…

  • Come and see me at Royston Book Fair!

    If you’re in the vicinity of Royston on 28th September, I’ll be there giving a reading and selling my books. I’ll be at the Book Fair, which is part of the Royston Arts Festival. Time and date: Saturday 28th September 2024, 11:00am – 4:00pm, in the Royston Masonic Hall, 2 Jepps Lane, Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: P is for Photograph

    I’d like you to write something – story, poem, or just a little piece of writing – sparked off by a photograph. Is it in colour, or black and white? Formal, like a portrait photo, or more of a snap? Where’s this photo come from? Is it known to you or not? Have you found…

  • Poem: Getting In

    He tried password – it didn’t work; He tried 1234. He tried his place of birth but got No further than before. He tried his mother’s maiden name, His father’s mother’s too; He tried his first pet – and his last – But still it wouldn’t do.

  • A great read … thoroughly enjoyable

    Another reader review of Twicetime. Our thanks to reader Elizabeth, who posted this on Goodreads: ‘A great read if you like witty banter and one-liners in your fantasy books. I met Carol Carman at an Alternative Fayre and after reading the blurb of this book, I was immediately intrigued and decided to buy a copy.…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: O is for Open

    Our next writing prompt is O for open. Such a small word applies in many different ways. You can open little things – jars, bottles, packets, parcels – or large things: you can open doors, open a new building, a business, a fair or a fete, or you can open your garden to the public.…

  • Memoir: My First One in Real Life

    I was twenty-two years old, and about eight stone wet through. I was wearing a home-sewn wrap-over skirt – small brown and white flowers and green leaves on a black background, the hem finished off with cream broderie anglaise. The top half of my skinny frame was covered by a sleeveless v-necked t-shirt, over which…

  • Come and see me!

    If you’re in the Huntingdon area on 31st August, please do come and see me at this event. I’ll be there, selling my comedy fantasy books Gingerbread Children and Twicetime. Come and have a chat! I’ve put up a poster for the event (see below) as well as what you can expect from my books.…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: N is for Needle

    Plenty of variety on this subject for you to have a go at. What sort of needle is it? Sewing needle? Hand sewing, machine sewing, upholstery needle?Surgical sewing or injections? If it’s any of those, are you on the receiving end of it, or is it you that’s using the needle? For what purpose? Then…