Category: WIP Work-in-Progress

• Closing Out 2024

  This year has been full of highs and lows. I choose to focus on the positive, so I’ve highlighted a good portion of my research when sharing “author news” on my blog, in my newsletter, and on my social media accounts. But I haven’t disclosed everything. Though my focus has shifted between several topics, my…

  Carrie Dalby

  December 21, 2024

  Alliance, ARCHITECTURE, AUTHORSHIP, Bellingrath Gardens, Betrayal, Christmas, Cover Art, Creativity, Discernment, Historic Homes, Historic Mobile Preservation Society, Historical Fiction, History Museum of Mobile, HOLIDAYS, INSPIRATION, LIFE, Loyalty, Mobile, Mobile’s Historical Facts, New Year, Research, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WASHINGTON SQUARE SECRETS, winter, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Gothic, historic district, Historic Homes, Historic Mobile, Historic Mobile Preservation Society, Historical Fiction, literature, Mobile Alabama, Mobile Bay Area, Mobile’s Historical Facts, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WRITING

• Peacekeeping

  

  It’s National Police Week, and yesterday was National Peace Officers Memorial Day. Sadly, I’ve never paid attention to either event until this year. What’s different this time around? Jim Abbott. Yes, he’s a fictional character, but my people (as I call them) are like family in my head. Jim came to me when I first…

  Carrie Dalby

  May 16, 2024

  Alliance, AUTHORSHIP, Beliefs, CURRENT EVENTS, Discernment, Editing, Historical Fiction, INSPIRATION, LIFE, Loyalty, Mobile, Mobile Police Department, Mobile’s Historical Facts, Research, Southern Gothic, THE MALEVOLENT TRILOGY, WASHINGTON SQUARE SECRETS, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Historic Mobile, Historical Fiction, Mobile Alabama, Mobile Bay Area, Mobile Police Department, Southern Gothic, WASHINGTON SQUARE SECRETS, WRITING

• The September Recap

  

  For those who couldn’t make it to either of my bookish events earlier this month for The Malevolent Trilogy, I thought I’d share a bit about them. But first, a reminder that the current editions of Fortitude and The Possession Chronicles are going out of print next week–by the end of September. The new paperback/ebook…

  Carrie Dalby

  September 21, 2022

  ARCHITECTURE, AUTHORSHIP, CORRODED, CURRENT EVENTS, FORTITUDE, George Bigelow Rogers/ George B. Rogers, Historic Homes, Historical Fiction, Mobile, Public Speaking, PUBLISHING, Reviews, Southern Gothic, THE MALEVOLENT TRILOGY, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING

  book events, Carrie Dalby, George B Rogers, George Bigelow Rogers/ George B. Rogers, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Mobile Bay Area, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, THE MALEVOLENT TRILOGY, 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