Category: books

• Best Books Article on Shepherd

  

  This past month, I had the opportunity to create a Top 5 list of my choosing for a new reader website, Shepherd. I decided to fangirl over my favorite historical Gothic family saga books. You can find my feature here. Next month, the Shepherd site will get a new front page, topic pages, and search…

  Carrie Dalby

  December 13, 2021

  authorship, Barren Devotion, blogging, books, Colleen McCullough, Dorothy Eden, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Gothic, Gothic, historical, Marilyn Harris, novels, READING, Taylor Caldwell, The Possession Chronicles

  Best Books, Carrie Dalby, family saga, Gothic, historical fiction, literature, The Possession Chronicles

• New Release and Digital Sale

  

  Yes, back-to-back blog days. I didn’t want to squeeze this information at the end of the already long post about the cathedral, so I waited. Get ready for two digital reading tidbits. The Kindle edition of Stormy Pieces is now available. It’s the fifth in the Pieces series–anthologies by Mobile Writers Guild. I have a…

  Carrie Dalby

  November 15, 2021

  authorship, Bienvenue Press, books, FORTITUDE, Gothic, historical, Mobile Writers Guild, New Orleans, publishing, READING, Revelry’s Requiem, Scarred Memories, short story, 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, Bienvenue Press, blogging, books, CURRENT EVENTS, Dorothy Eden, editing, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Gothic, Gothic, Gulf Coast, historical, Mobile, publishing, READING, seasons, southern Gothic, summer, The Possession Chronicles, WIP, WRITING

  Bienvenue Press, Carrie Dalby, Dorothy Eden, editing, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Gothic, historical fiction, literature, Mobile Bay Area, publishing, southern Gothic, The Possession Chronicles, WRITING

• We All Need Fortitude

  Today–Saturday, June 6, 2020–marks the 122 anniversary of the Tampa area race riots that happened during the mobilization of the troops to Cuba for the Spanish-American War. For my novel, Fortitude, I researched the event from multiple sources and did my best to portray the situation accurately, though it was heartbreaking to dive into such…

  Carrie Dalby

  June 6, 2020

  authorship, Bienvenue Press, books, CURRENT EVENTS, Dauphin Island, FORTITUDE, Gothic, historical, LIFE, Mobile, READING, southern Gothic, The Possession Chronicles, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, FORTITUDE, Grateful American Foundation, historical fiction, Mobile Bay Area, publishing, southern Gothic, The Possession Chronicles, young adult

• 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

  January 13, 2020

  authorship, blog, blogging, books, Claire O’Farrell, Courtship and Courage, CURRENT EVENTS, Firsts, FORTITUDE, Gothic, Gothic, Gulf Coast, historical, HOLIDAYS, LIFE, Mardi Gras, Mobile, New Year, novels, Perilous Confessions, publishing, READING, short story, southern Gothic, The Possession Chronicles, WIP, WRITING

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