Category: LIFE

• 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

• Won Over

  Last night I went to a concert for a band I thought of as decent and liked a few songs by them (including one that’s on a soundtrack for a book in The Possession Chronicles.) Usually I don’t attend a concert unless it’s by a favorite because of two things: time and money. But this…

  Carrie Dalby

  August 8, 2018

  Anxiety, concerts, CURRENT EVENTS, GULF COAST, INSPIRATION, LIFE, MUSIC, soundtrack, summer, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES

  Alabama, Carrie Dalby, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES

• 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

• Gothic Lit with Stephanie Lawton

  Today I welcome good friend and fellow indie author, Stephanie Lawton. If I had to pick a favorite of her novels, it would be Shrapnel–an eerie blend of gritty contemporary YA, paranormal, Southern Gothic, and historical. Thanks for letting me guest blog today, Carrie! We have a lot of things in common, but a few…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 16, 2018

  AUTHORSHIP, Creativity, Friends, Gothic, INSPIRATION, LIFE, READING, Southern Gothic, Stephanie Lawton, WRITING, young adult

  Gothic, Historical Fiction, literature, Mobile Bay Area, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WRITING