Category: Katherine Paterson

• Literary Reflections

  Last Saturday I gave my “Kid Lit 101” presentation to a group of writers in Gulfport, Mississippi. While what is categorized as (upper) middle grade is my first literary love, the past few years I’ve been focusing the majority of my reading time on Gothic—classic Gothic, Southern Gothic, Gothic Romance, etc.—to be sure I’m doing…

  Carrie Dalby

  June 26, 2018

  AUTHORSHIP, Balance, Creativity, CURRENT EVENTS, Editing, Gothic, GULF COAST, Historical Fiction, INSPIRATION, Katherine Paterson, LIFE, middle grade, Perilous Confessions, Public Speaking, PUBLISHING, READING, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING, young adult

  Carrie Dalby, Editing, Gothic, literature, Perilous Confessions, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WRITING, young adult

• Kid Lit 101

  As many of you know, my first passion in the book word is middle grade literature. Though a late reader, I began devouring novels like The Babysitters-Club Series as they were published and ghost stories by Betty Ren Wright in fourth grade, but by sixth grade I was ready for more. I fell in love…

  Carrie Dalby

  June 19, 2018

  AUTHORSHIP, CURRENT EVENTS, Goals, Gothic, INSPIRATION, Katherine Paterson, LIFE, middle grade, READING, WRITING, young adult

  Carrie Dalby, Gothic, Historical Fiction, literature, 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