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• Setting locations of The Possession Chronicles: Part 1

  

  To follow up my two previous posts focusing on the homes of the characters in The Possession Chronicles, I’m going to take a few weeks to showcase other setting locations. First off, here is a 2018 aerial view of downtown Mobile, Alabama. It’s taken from the north, looking south–so the opposite of a map if…

  Carrie Dalby

  October 21, 2021

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• Mardi Gras and Southern Gothic

  It’s that time of year, again. Mardi Gras. The day (season) of indulgence. Last January, I blogged about it on a personal level–check it out here. Today, I’d like to take a minute to tie Mardi Gras with my Southern Gothic series. I found this explanation of Southern Gothic Literature online last year on a…

  Carrie Dalby

  February 25, 2020

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• New Year, New Stories

  Unless you live along the Gulf Coast, the holidays are over. If you’re in the Mardi Gras zone, you know the festivities have just begun. Besides being a year old this week, Perilous Confessions is fun to talk about during carnival season. A lot of my historical research centered around Mardi Gras in the Port…

  Carrie Dalby

  January 13, 2020

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• The Horizon

  Tendrils of Passion, book three of The Possession Chronicles, releases this November. The editor will have the manuscript back to me by one week from today so I can go through my next round of edits (which brings my total to around thirty editorial passes for this manuscript since I wrote the first draft.) I’ll…

  Carrie Dalby

  August 15, 2019

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• Murmurs of Evil Release Day

  Happy Book Birthday to Murmurs of Evil! This Friday, June 14, I’ll be at The Haunted Book Shop from 6-9pm for a book signing during ArtWalk in downtown Mobile. Located on Dauphin street, the store is less than a block from both Bienville Square and The Battle House Hotel–places you’re familiar with if you’ve read…

  Carrie Dalby

  June 11, 2019

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