Category: teens

• 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, books, CURRENT EVENTS, goals, Gothic, inspiration, jobs, Katherine Paterson, LIFE, literature, middle grade, novels, READING, Richard Peck, teens, Terabithia, WRITING, young adult

  bookseller, Carrie Dalby, children’s literature, free workshop, Gothic, historical fiction, literature, middle grade, teen books, WRITING

• YA Event

  UPDATED June 7, 2016: On the afternoon of June 11 at 1:00pm , I’ll be the featured young adult author at the Spanish Fort (Alabama) Barnes & Noble for a book signing during their NATIONAL TEEN BOOK FESTIVAL. They will have copies of Fortitude and Corroded for sale, which I’d be happy to sign, and lots of other…

  Carrie Dalby

  May 13, 2016

  authorship, autographs, books, CORRODED, Firsts, FORTITUDE, Gulf Coast, LIFE, public speaking, READING, teens, 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

  BELIEFS, childhood, CORRODED, editing, FORTITUDE, high school, inspiration, LIFE, memories, nostalgic, pictures, publishing, READING, SCHOOL, teens, WIP, WRITING, young adult

• Scents of Wonder

  I’ve been thinking about smells lately. Not necessarily bad odors (though with three kids in the house, there are plenty of those), just the power of memory in regards to one of the main senses. To me, a fresh box of Crayola crayons or a container of Play-Doh is childhood. Camel cigarettes smell like corruption.…

  Carrie Dalby

  June 10, 2015

  childhood, fear, high school, kids, LIFE, memories, nostalgic, pictures, teens

• Vacation from Reality

  Vacations are great. They’re so nice, sometimes I need a break from real life after a vacation—the old “I need a vacation to recuperate from my vacation” situation. That’s about what happened, but now I’m here, and this week marks my first full one back in the old routine. Boring, you might think, but it’s…

  Carrie Dalby

  September 17, 2014

  ASD Autism Spectrum Disorders, autism, balance, BELIEFS, Disney, family, goals, kids, LIFE, memories, road trips, teens, THE UNRAVELING THREADS OF KYNDRA FIELDS, travel, VACATION, WIP, WRITING