Category: Gulf Coast

• FORTITUDE is Back

  

  It was only a few weeks, so most people probably didn’t get a chance to miss it, but Fortitude‘s second edition, from Bienvenue Press, went out of print the end of September. (As of writing this, Amazon has one paperback copy of that edition left in stock.) Now is the time for the third edition…

  Carrie Dalby

  October 11, 2022

  authorship, Claire O’Farrell, Courtship and Courage, Dauphin Island, FORTITUDE, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, historical, Joe Walker, Lower Alabama, Olive Kent Publishing, Release Day, southern Gothic, travel, WRITING, young adult

  Carrie Dalby, Dauphin Island, FORTITUDE, historical fiction, Mobile Bay Area, new release, publishing, southern Gothic, WRITING

• ‘Tis the Season Sales

  

  All three of the Bienvenue Press Christmas charity anthologies are currently marked down to 99 cents on Kindle. While in my series world, each of my short stories can be read alone, and you’ll also get other themed holiday stories from several authors in the collections. Hometown Heroes features the Fortitude/Possession Chronicles tie-in short story…

  Carrie Dalby

  December 5, 2021

  Barren Devotion, Bienvenue Press, Christmas, Christmas, Claire O’Farrell, Courtship and Courage, Dauphin Island, family, FORTITUDE, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, historical, HOLIDAYS, Joe Walker, Mobile, Natural Selection in Life and Love, romance, school, SCHOOL, short story, southern Gothic, Tendrils of Passion, The Possession Chronicles, WRITING

  Bienvenue Press, Carrie Dalby, charity, Christmas, historical fiction, Mobile Bay Area, short stories, southern Gothic, The Possession Chronicles, WRITING

• Free Fortitude

  

   Couldn’t we all use a little extra grit and determination right about now? I know I could. As a timely gift, my first published novel (now in its second edition), FORTIUDE, is available as a FREE download on Kindle this week. This coming-of-age novel features Claire O’Farrell and her Dauphin Island family, as well as…

  Carrie Dalby

  September 6, 2021

  authorship, Claire O’Farrell, CURRENT EVENTS, Dauphin Island, FORTITUDE, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, historical, Joe Walker, southern Gothic, The Possession Chronicles

  1898, book club, Buffalo Soldiers, Carrie Dalby, Dauphin Island, FORTITUDE, FREE book, Gulf Coast, historical fiction, history, literature, southern Gothic, Spanish-American War, The Possession Chronicles, YA books

• Summer Writes, Reads, and Edits

  It’s meltingly hot here in Mobile, Alabama, which means it’s a typical August along the Gulf Coast. My favorite thing to do in August are indoor activities including reading, writing, and editing. On August first, I completed the first draft of the final manuscript in the trilogy I began in the autumn of 2019. It…

  Carrie Dalby

  August 11, 2021

  authorship, Bienvenue Press, blogging, books, CURRENT EVENTS, Dorothy Eden, editing, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Gothic, Gothic, Gulf Coast, historical, Mobile, publishing, READING, seasons, southern Gothic, summer, The Possession Chronicles, WIP, WRITING

  Bienvenue Press, Carrie Dalby, Dorothy Eden, editing, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Gothic, historical fiction, literature, Mobile Bay Area, publishing, southern Gothic, The Possession Chronicles, WRITING

• Short and Sale

  

  As reported two weeks ago, I spent a lot of time on edits this month. My short story for the next Mobile Writers Guild anthology is ready to submit. “Dashing Through the Snow” features a historic snowfall in Mobile, Alabama, and takes place pre-Possession Chronicles, with a few of the characters before they come of…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 27, 2021

  authorship, Christmas, family, Gulf Coast, historical, LIFE, Lower Alabama, Mobile, Natural Selection in Life and Love, NATURE, READING, seasons, short story, southern Gothic, spring, The Possession Chronicles, weather, winter, WIP, WRITING

  Bienvenue Press, Carrie Dalby, Mobile Alabama, Mobile Writers Guild, publishing, southern Gothic, The Possession Chronicles