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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: C is for Collections
Lots to think about here. You can have collections as in people collecting things, like stamps, or china ornaments, or a certain type of glassware, or little plastic heads of famous footballers (Joe Mercer’s England Squad 1971, anybody?). So from that you can widen it out to What does this character collect? What kind of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘A cracking read…’
Yes – the reviews have started coming in! The honour of bagging the first review slot is Richard Storey who emailed us: ‘A cracking read with a cast of great, very memorable and all very different, all too human characters with failings and foibles. Great fantasy, firmly rooted in mugs of tea. Cracking stuff!’
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22.2.22… Twicetime!
We’re thrilled to announce that Twicetime, Carol Carman’s fabulously funny new fantasy novel, is officially published today, 22.2.22! If you’d like a bit of Terry Pratchett humour with Mary Shelley overtones, this is the book for you. Its 431 pages are packed with comic fantasy encompassing family, finality, resurrection, expectations, revenge, invention, high-stakes gambling and…
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New book from Carol Carman!
Yes, it’s true Carol’s latest book, Twicetime, will be published on the 1st March. However as today is 22/2/2 it seems appropriate that we make a special guesture for Twicetime and it is available to pre-order NOW. And only from this website. Any pre-orders will receive priority dispatch and quite probably before the official publishing…
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New Book for Christopher South
Mccaw Press are pleased to announce that the latest Christopher South book will be released on Tuesday 10th December. “Where to Find A Warm Bucket and other Tall Tales of a Low Place” is the fourth book about a fictionalised location Grunty Fen. It will proudly bare the McCaw Press logo. More details: https://www.dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk/2019/12/08/mr-south-and-his-warm-bucket/ https://dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=27
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Witches, broomsticks and Hallowe’en
Hallowe’en is upon us so that calls for a little piece about witches. I’ll take an extract from Gingerbread Children. By the side of the Bursar’s bed lay the head of her broomstick. The shaft of the broomstick was in the Bursar’s clasped hands, being slammed down repeatedly onto the bed. Generations of concussed mattress…
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Gingerbread Children mentioned in despatches – well, Fortean Times actually
The first press review for Carol Carman’s latest, Gingerbread Children, has appeared today! Fortean Times has picked up a copy and published a short review in their SF and Fantasy round-up. The important issue was published 6th December 2018 and you can read the full review here: Fortean Times can be found at www.forteantimes.com