Category: WRITING

• 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

  AUTHORSHIP, Beliefs, CORRODED, Editing, FORTITUDE, Historical Fiction, INSPIRATION, LIFE, Memories, PUBLISHING, READING, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING, young adult

  Carrie Dalby, Historical Fiction, PUBLISHING, WRITING

• Grace and Guidance

  It’s been a surreal week of reading through Fortitude’s galley (early e-version of the book.) One hundred forty days until it’s out in the world! On top of proofing the galley, I need to turn in the dedication, acknowledgements, and biography sections. Freak out time! This is getting real, people! Granted, I’ve been working notes…

  Carrie Dalby

  August 25, 2015

  Anxiety, Creativity, Editing, Firsts, FORTITUDE, Historical Fiction, INSPIRATION, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Historical Fiction, Mobile Bay Area, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, WRITING

• Corroded

  Last week, on April Fool’s Day (no joke), I signed my second book contract with Anaiah Press. Fortunately, there is no video footage of my happy dance. That would be awkward, almost as uncomfortable as admitting it happened in the first place. The “new book” is Corroded, a young adult, contemporary novel. Corroded has been…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 7, 2015

  ASD Autism Spectrum Disorders, AUTHORSHIP, Autism, Awareness, Beliefs, CORRODED, CURRENT EVENTS, Fernando, ferns, Friends, LIFE, PUBLISHING, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Mobile Bay Area, PUBLISHING, WRITING

• Publishing News

  Last week there was some exciting news on the internet. Anaiah Press has acquired my young adult historical novel, FORTITUDE, and it’s set to be published January 12, 2016. There’s much to do in the year ahead: revisions, line edits, cover reveal, and so on, but it’s a journey I’m most looking forward to. I…

  Carrie Dalby

  December 22, 2014

  AUTHORSHIP, Dauphin Island, FORTITUDE, Historical Fiction, HOLIDAYS, LIFE, Mobile, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Historical Fiction, Mobile Bay Area, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, WRITING

• Story Growth

  Fernando is spreading. He even has new fiddleheads coming from the earth—not the tree—this time. Go, Fernando! Just like the fern, my own stories are growing. I’m on the downhill for the first draft of my current project, and it has a shiny new working title: THE UNRAVELING THREADS OF KYNDRA FIELDS. Fernando—just like my…

  Carrie Dalby

  August 26, 2014

  Creativity, Fernando, ferns, INSPIRATION, NATURE/SEASONS, trees, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING

  Mobile Bay Area, WRITING