Category: LIFE

• 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, 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

• Hometown Heroes Release Day

  It’s release day for this collection of romantic shorts. Find Hometown Heroes: A Christmas Anthology by Bienvenue Press in ebook and print. I’m happy to share “Courtship and Courage” with you as part of the transitioning of my historical works to Bienvenue Press. This all new short continues the story of Claire O’Farrell and Joe Walker…

  Carrie Dalby

  December 4, 2018

  AUTHORSHIP, Christmas, Claire O’Farrell, Courtship and Courage, CURRENT EVENTS, Dauphin Island, FORTITUDE, GULF COAST, Historical Fiction, HOLIDAYS, Joe Walker, LIFE, Mobile, Short Story, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, winter, WRITING

  Alabama, Carrie Dalby, Dauphin Island, FORTITUDE, Historical Fiction, literature, Mobile Bay Area, PUBLISHING, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WRITING

• Winter Wonderland

  There is an epic level of awesomeness happening in my life right now, but where to begin? The basics—and I will expound on all of these things in my December newsletter next week, so if you haven’t yet, subscribe! I’m traveling and experiencing new things such as wintry weather in the Pocono Mountains. Cold and…

  Carrie Dalby

  November 27, 2018

  AUTHORSHIP, autumn, Claire O’Farrell, Courtship and Courage, CURRENT EVENTS, Family, FORTITUDE, Goals, Historical Fiction, Joe Walker, LIFE, NATURE/SEASONS, Perilous Confessions, Release Day, seasons, Short Story, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, Travel, winter, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, FORTITUDE, Gothic, Historical Fiction, literature, Perilous Confessions, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, young adult

• Cemetery Wanderings

  On Saturday, I participated in a walking tour of historic Magnolia Cemetery here in Mobile, Alabama. I got to geek out over local history in the fourth oldest (and the largest) municipal cemetery, established in 1836. People of all faiths and walks of life rest here, including plenty of noteworthy historical figures. And as it…

  Carrie Dalby

  November 12, 2018

  CURRENT EVENTS, Gothic, Historical Fiction, HOLIDAYS, LIFE, Mobile, NATURE/SEASONS

  Alabama, Carrie Dalby, Gothic, Mobile Alabama, Mobile Bay Area, Mobile’s Historical Facts, Research, Southern Gothic

• 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