Category: PUBLISHING

• 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

• FORTITUDE Saw Me Through

  Another round of edits on FORTITUDE is complete and the story is on its way to the next round of beta readers. After these tweaks, it sits at over 67,500 words and has 310 double spaced pages. It’s an inch and a half thick—my largest story to date! I feel a bit like Charlotte, wondering…

  Carrie Dalby

  September 21, 2013

  Anxiety, autumn, Claire O’Farrell, Editing, FORTITUDE, seasons, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING

• Highs and Lows

  A writing life is full of its own highs and lows and this week, though it’s just beginning, has both. How do I know? I’ve already experienced the spectrum of emotions. Good news first: I passed twenty-five thousand words on the first draft of FORTITUDE. Most days I’m making myself write first thing in the…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 30, 2013

  Balance, CORRODED, Critque, ferns, Firsts, FORTITUDE, INSPIRATION, LIFE, Mobile Writers Guild, Neurodivergent, WRITING