Category: seasons

• One Month

  

  The Malevolent Trilogy releases one month from today: July 19, 2022. All three books will be available on the release date in ebook form from all major digital platforms (nook, iBooks, Kobo, Kindle, etc.) As of my typing this, the first two books–Malevolent Hearts and Tangled Discoveries–are listed and available for pre-ordering. Severed Legacies will…

  Carrie Dalby

  June 21, 2022

  ARCHITECTURE, George Bigelow Rogers/ George B. Rogers, Historic Homes, Historical Fiction, LIFE, PUBLISHING, READING, Southern Gothic, summer, THE MALEVOLENT TRILOGY, trees, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, family saga, Historic Homes, Historical Fiction, Mobile Bay Area, new release, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, THE MALEVOLENT TRILOGY

• Setting locations of The Possession Chronicles: Part 1

  

  To follow up my two previous posts focusing on the homes of the characters in The Possession Chronicles, I’m going to take a few weeks to showcase other setting locations. First off, here is a 2018 aerial view of downtown Mobile, Alabama. It’s taken from the north, looking south–so the opposite of a map if…

  Carrie Dalby

  October 21, 2021

  ARCHITECTURE, AUTHORSHIP, Barren Devotion, Christmas, Gothic, Historic Homes, Historical Fiction, Mobile, Short Story, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, winter, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Gothic, Historic Homes, Historical Fiction, literature, Mobile Bay Area, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WRITING

• Summer Writes, Reads, and Edits

  It’s meltingly hot here in Mobile, Alabama, which means it’s a typical August along the Gulf Coast. My favorite thing to do in August are indoor activities including reading, writing, and editing. On August first, I completed the first draft of the final manuscript in the trilogy I began in the autumn of 2019. It…

  Carrie Dalby

  August 11, 2021

  AUTHORSHIP, CURRENT EVENTS, Dorothy Eden, Editing, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Gothic, GULF COAST, Historical Fiction, Mobile, PUBLISHING, READING, seasons, Southern Gothic, summer, THE MALEVOLENT TRILOGY, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Editing, Gothic, Historical Fiction, literature, Mobile Bay Area, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, THE MALEVOLENT TRILOGY, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WRITING

• Springing Along

  After finishing the first draft of my latest project at the end of March, I took a few days off to reset my mind. Powering through 118,000 words in just over two months merits a mini-break. Then, I dove into what I think was my final round–or next to final round–of self edits (draft twenty-four)…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 13, 2021

  AUTHORSHIP, Balance, Barren Devotion, Creativity, Critque, CURRENT EVENTS, Editing, Goals, Haunted Remains, Historical Fiction, INSPIRATION, LIFE, Mobile Writers Guild, Short Story, Southern Gothic, spring, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Editing, Historical Fiction, literature, Mobile Alabama, Mobile Bay Area, Mobile Writers Guild, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES

• New Christmas Story

  It’s nearly here! The third instalment of the Bienvenue Press charity anthology series, Homeroom Heroes, releases December 15, 2020. Each story in this collection features an independent woman working in the education system. From historical to contemporary and suspense to paranormal, these winter themed romances are sure to make for cozy reading. My offering, “Natural…

  Carrie Dalby

  December 14, 2020

  AUTHORSHIP, Christmas, CURRENT EVENTS, Halloween, Historical Fiction, HOLIDAYS, Hostile Charms, Masked Flaws, Murmurs of Evil, Perilous Confessions, PUBLISHING, READING, Short Story, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, winter, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Historical Fiction, literature, Mobile Alabama, new release, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES