Category: Friends

• Decade in the Making

  I’m halfway through the second round of content edits on Corroded (Surge Imprint from Anaiah Press, April 2016), which makes it at least the fiftieth revision. It’s been a learning curve, to be sure! Even though it’s coming out second, this is the oldest “book baby” of my adult life. My first born, but she…

  Carrie Dalby

  October 14, 2015

  AUTHORSHIP, CORRODED, Creativity, Critque, Editing, FORTITUDE, Friends, INSPIRATION, Laurie Halse Anderson, LIFE, WRITING, young adult

  Carrie Dalby, literature, Mobile Bay Area, PUBLISHING, WRITING, young adult

• 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

• World Book Night

  It’s World Book Night and I’m a proud book giver. I got a jump on my giving so the twenty copies of Bridge to Terabithia that I had are already gone, thanks to an afternoon visit to a local elementary school. When I drove around the block, looking for the entrance to the parking lot,…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 23, 2014

  Friends, INSPIRATION, Katherine Paterson, library, LIFE, Memories, middle grade, Mobile, READING, WRITING

  literature, Mobile Bay Area, WRITING

• Signs

  I’m not superstitious, but… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gU5Vg2JokU Had to add that song because I can’t say “superstitious” without it playing in my head. And, yes, Europe is still around and sounding better than ever. This morning I approached my desk to write the beginning of my new story. Yes, pre-writing is complete and it’s time to get…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 16, 2014

  Beliefs, Creativity, Europe, Fernando, ferns, Friends, INSPIRATION, Laurie Halse Anderson, LIFE, Memories, MUSIC, NATURE/SEASONS, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Mobile Bay Area, WRITING

• Nourish Your Goals

  Did you catch my post earlier this month about ferns? I didn’t have to wait for the summer heat to test me or the fern. This past Sunday I had a minor freak-out about my writing goal—finishing the first draft of FORTITUDE—while I’m in my seventh month of waiting to hear back from publishers about…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 24, 2013

  Anxiety, Balance, CORRODED, ferns, FORTITUDE, Friends, Goals, INSPIRATION, LIFE, NATURE/SEASONS, trees, WIP Work-in-Progress