Category: Mardi Gras
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Release Day News
Today marks the day Masked Flaws and Other Stories is available to the world. This collection of previously published short stories is the first time my shorts can be found in one location. Historical in nature, and all but one directly linking to one or more of my series, these stories span the Gulf Coast…
Carrie Dalby
AUTHORSHIP, autumn, Christmas, CURRENT EVENTS, Dauphin Island, FORTITUDE, Gothic, Halloween, Historical Fiction, HOLIDAYS, Mardi Gras, Masked Flaws, Mobile, Mobile Writers Guild, New Year, PUBLISHING, READING, Release Day, Short Story, Southern Gothic, spring, THE MALEVOLENT TRILOGY, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, Valentine’s Day, WASHINGTON SQUARE SECRETS, winter -
New Year, New Stories
Unless you live along the Gulf Coast, the holidays are over. If you’re in the Mardi Gras zone, you know the festivities have just begun. Besides being a year old this week, Perilous Confessions is fun to talk about during carnival season. A lot of my historical research centered around Mardi Gras in the Port…
Carrie Dalby
AUTHORSHIP, Claire O’Farrell, Courtship and Courage, CURRENT EVENTS, Firsts, FORTITUDE, Gothic, GULF COAST, Historical Fiction, HOLIDAYS, LIFE, Mardi Gras, Mobile, New Year, Perilous Confessions, PUBLISHING, READING, Scarred Memories, Short Story, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING, young adult -
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…