Category: Beliefs

• Peacekeeping

  

  It’s National Police Week, and yesterday was National Peace Officers Memorial Day. Sadly, I’ve never paid attention to either event until this year. What’s different this time around? Jim Abbott. Yes, he’s a fictional character, but my people (as I call them) are like family in my head. Jim came to me when I first…

  Carrie Dalby

  May 16, 2024

  Alliance, AUTHORSHIP, Beliefs, CURRENT EVENTS, Discernment, Editing, Historical Fiction, INSPIRATION, LIFE, Loyalty, Mobile, Mobile Police Department, Mobile’s Historical Facts, Research, Southern Gothic, THE MALEVOLENT TRILOGY, WASHINGTON SQUARE SECRETS, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Historic Mobile, Historical Fiction, Mobile Alabama, Mobile Bay Area, Mobile Police Department, Southern Gothic, WASHINGTON SQUARE SECRETS, WRITING

• Music as Inspiration

  

  Last Saturday, I attended the ArtCentriCity event in Silverhill, Alabama, hosted by the band analog missionary. I was honored with the task of “opening” the concert with a short presentation about how I use music to fuel my writing. With all the public speaking I’ve done, I’ve found it easier—in most cases—to go off talking…

  Carrie Dalby

  February 8, 2024

  Alliance, analog missionary, AUTHORSHIP, Beliefs, concerts, Creativity, CURRENT EVENTS, Dedication, Firsts, GULF COAST, Hanson, INSPIRATION, LIFE, Martina McBride, Mitch Malloy, MUSIC, Public Speaking, Silverhill, soundtrack, Southern Gothic, THE MALEVOLENT TRILOGY, WASHINGTON SQUARE SECRETS, WRITING

  ArtCentriCity, book events, Carrie Dalby, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Mobile Bay Area, Southern Gothic, WRITING

• Repeats

  2015 has been a year of edits. Multiple rounds of edits on my first novel, Fortitude, carried me through winter and spring. In between those, I reworked my second novel, Corroded, to be submission ready for my publisher. (I signed the contract for it in April.) Over the summer, I worked on my messy work-in-progress,…

  Carrie Dalby

  September 22, 2015

  AUTHORSHIP, Beliefs, CORRODED, Editing, FORTITUDE, Historical Fiction, INSPIRATION, LIFE, Memories, PUBLISHING, READING, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING, young adult

  Carrie Dalby, Historical Fiction, PUBLISHING, WRITING

• Corroded

  Last week, on April Fool’s Day (no joke), I signed my second book contract with Anaiah Press. Fortunately, there is no video footage of my happy dance. That would be awkward, almost as uncomfortable as admitting it happened in the first place. The “new book” is Corroded, a young adult, contemporary novel. Corroded has been…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 7, 2015

  ASD Autism Spectrum Disorders, AUTHORSHIP, Autism, Awareness, Beliefs, CORRODED, CURRENT EVENTS, Fernando, ferns, Friends, LIFE, PUBLISHING, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Mobile Bay Area, PUBLISHING, WRITING

• Midyear Reality Check

  As noted in a previous post, my life fell apart sometime late spring. True, it was nothing disastrous—more like a mini-emotional breakdown—but it was a call to action. My reading slowed. My writing was non-existent. My health and sanity = Scary Carrie. I’m happy to report the past six weeks have proven productive, as well…

  Carrie Dalby

  July 8, 2014

  Balance, Beliefs, Fernando, ferns, FORTITUDE, Goals, INSPIRATION, LIFE, READING, spring, summer, WRITING