Category: memories

• About Me

  

  Yes, there is an “About Carrie” page on my website, but it’s a general overview relating mostly to my publishing career. I figured the first month of the year would be a good time to reintroduce myself and give more insight and details to make it easier to find out more of what you’re interested…

  Carrie Dalby

  January 26, 2022

  authorship, blogging, concerts, CORRODED, creativity, CURRENT EVENTS, Facebook, family, Gothic, homeschooling, inspiration, LIFE, memories, Mobile, motherhood, Networking, New Year, novels, READING, WRITING

  biography, Carrie Dalby, Mobile Bay Area

• 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, childhood, CURRENT EVENTS, Gothic, historical, HOLIDAYS, LIFE, Mardi Gras, memories, Mobile, Perilous Confessions, Release Day, research, Stephanie Lawton, The Possession Chronicles, winter, WRITING

  Alabama, Bienvenue Press, Carrie Dalby, family saga, Gothic, historical fiction, inspiration, Mardi Gras, Mobile Bay Area, Perilous Confessions, publishing, release date, research, southern Gothic, Stephanie Lawton, 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, Aspergers, autism, CORRODED, high school, inspiration, John Elder Robison, Laurie Halse Anderson, memories, SCHOOL, sensory issues, spectrum, Thor, WRITING

• 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

• Adventure Ahead!

  At the beginning of August, I took a trip with a comrade (both in homeschooling and writing) to North Carolina. Thanks to a visit from Santa in 2014, we had V.I.P. seats for The Piano Guys concert, and enjoyed two nights in downtown Raleigh.   As many concerts as I’ve attended over the years, this…

  Carrie Dalby

  September 1, 2015

  Asheville, Biltmore Estate, concerts, creativity, Firsts, goals, inspiration, LIFE, memories, MUSIC, NATURE, pictures, road trips, The Piano Guys, travel, trees, VACATION