Category: Memories

• Part One, A Snowy Day

  

  Fragments Observed:Life During Mobile’s Progressive Era Part One, A Snowy Day This blog series is made possible through a partnership with Historic Mobile Preservation Society (HMPS.) HMPS’s archive collection, housed on the Oakleigh Complex in the Minnie Mitchell Archives building, is a treasure of inspiration and knowledge. Please support HMPS’s efforts in preserving not only…

  Carrie Dalby

  January 20, 2025

  FRAGMENTS OBSERVED: Life During Mobile’s Progressive Era, GULF COAST, Historic Mobile Preservation Society, Memories, Mobile, Valentine’s Day, winter

  Alabama, Carrie Dalby, Historic Mobile, Historic Mobile Preservation Society, Historic Snowfall, Historical Fiction, Mobile Alabama, Mobile Bay Area, Mobile’s Historical Facts, Snow, Snow in Mobile, winter, WRITING

• Mardi Gras History

  Mardi Gras. I’ve always had a love or hate relationship with it. As a child growing up in California one of the highlights of the year was a box of beads, throws, and Moon Pies my mother’s cousin would send us. The magic of the sparkling beads, fun toys, and the wonders of sugar coated…

  Carrie Dalby

  January 8, 2019

  AUTHORSHIP, CURRENT EVENTS, Historical Fiction, HOLIDAYS, LIFE, Mardi Gras, Memories, Mobile, Perilous Confessions, Release Day, Research, Southern Gothic, Stephanie Lawton, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, winter, WRITING

  Alabama, Carrie Dalby, family saga, Gothic, Historic Mobile, Historical Fiction, Mardi Gras, Mobile Bay Area, Perilous Confessions, PUBLISHING, Research, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES

• Top Ten Facts Behind the Fiction–CORRODED

  1. The acknowledgement section for Corroded is full of people, but the one that stands out the most is Laurie Halse Anderson. Yes, THE Laurie Halse Anderson. I was blessed to win a full manuscript critique during a fundraiser for the Joplin, Missouri tornado victims in 2011, one of the last full critiques she was able…

  Carrie Dalby

  November 22, 2016

  ASD Autism Spectrum Disorders, AUTHORSHIP, Autism, CORRODED, INSPIRATION, John Elder Robison, Laurie Halse Anderson, Memories, Neurodivergent, WRITING, young adult

  Carrie Dalby, literature, PUBLISHING, WRITING, young adult

• 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

• 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