Category: Firsts

• 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

• 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

  AUTHORSHIP, Claire O’Farrell, Courtship and Courage, CURRENT EVENTS, Firsts, FORTITUDE, Gothic, GULF COAST, Historical Fiction, HOLIDAYS, LIFE, Mardi Gras, Mobile, New Year, Perilous Confessions, PUBLISHING, READING, Scarred Memories, Short Story, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING, young adult

  Carrie Dalby, Dauphin Island, family saga, FORTITUDE, Gothic, Historical Fiction, literature, Mobile Bay Area, Perilous Confessions, PUBLISHING, READING, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WRITING

• Another Bucket List Item Done

  Over three years ago I wrote about checking off the first of my Bucket List goals: seeing my favorite band, Europe, in concert. A few months later, I experienced another: visiting Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. By the end of 2015, a third—my first novel was published that December. Today I’m here to say I’ve completed the…

  Carrie Dalby

  October 9, 2018

  concerts, CURRENT EVENTS, Europe, Firsts, Goals, LIFE, Mitch Malloy, MUSIC

  Carrie Dalby, Mitch Malloy

• Fueled by Live Music

  Last week I sent out my newsletter, so for those who get that you’ll already know I completed the first few drafts of my Gothic Horror work-in-progress. It’s currently out with some beta readers and I’m trying to patiently await feedback. Trying.   The other highlight this month—besides finishing that behemoth draft of 882 pages—was…

  Carrie Dalby

  August 24, 2016

  AUTHORSHIP, concerts, Editing, Family, Firsts, Historical Fiction, INSPIRATION, LIFE, MUSIC, Neurodivergent, Southern Gothic, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Historical Fiction, literature, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WRITING

• YA Event

  UPDATED June 7, 2016: On the afternoon of June 11 at 1:00pm , I’ll be the featured young adult author at the Spanish Fort (Alabama) Barnes & Noble for a book signing during their NATIONAL TEEN BOOK FESTIVAL. They will have copies of Fortitude and Corroded for sale, which I’d be happy to sign, and lots of other…

  Carrie Dalby

  May 13, 2016

  AUTHORSHIP, CORRODED, Firsts, FORTITUDE, GULF COAST, LIFE, Public Speaking, READING, WRITING, young adult

  Carrie Dalby, literature, Mobile Bay Area, PUBLISHING