Category: SCHOOL

• Corroded in the Wild

  Today’s the day! You can get your copy of Corroded, a young adult contemporary novel, on all e-reader platforms or in paperback. Last week’s Kindle pre-orders pushed it to the top spot for “Hot New Releases in Teen & Young Adult Christian Social Issue Fiction” category. WooHoo! Ordering links can by found on my BOOKS […]

  Carrie Dalby

  April 12, 2016

  ASD Autism Spectrum Disorders, Aspergers, autism, Awareness, CORRODED, creativity, CURRENT EVENTS, Europe, Gunnar Nelson, Hanson, high school, inspiration, LIFE, Linkin Park, Listen, Matthew Nelson, Mitch Malloy, MUSIC, publishing, READING, Rick Nelson, sensory issues, soundtrack, Tyketto, 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

• Read Aloud

  It’s World Read Aloud Day and we’re celebrating here by taking extra time to read from our bedtime tome, The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. We’re currently in The Silver Chair, the next to the last book in the series. The kids have enjoyed the stories as much as I do—and as much […]

  Carrie Dalby

  March 4, 2015

  books, childhood, family, homeschooling, kids, LIFE, memories, nostalgic, read aloud, READING, SCHOOL

• Chocolate, It’s What’s for Dinner

  For the past three weeks, I’ve been hard at work on the first official round of edits for Fortitude—the developmental edits, direct from my shiny new editor at Anaiah Press—and I’m now done! That is to say, I’ve been hard at work in between homeschooling, family emergencies, and other assorted life happenings. And that translates […]

  Carrie Dalby

  February 20, 2015

  editing, FORTITUDE, friends, goals, homeschooling, inspiration, publishing, READING, WRITING