Category: Reviews

• LOYALTY Releases in Two Weeks

  

  From the beginning of the first draft on February 1, 2023 (and hey, the opening sentence stayed the same), the past year and a half has been a labor of love in shaping the third book in the Washington Square Secrets series. The last-minute finishing touches happened in early July, and that was only adjusting…

  Carrie Dalby

  August 13, 2024

  AUTHORSHIP, Creativity, CURRENT EVENTS, Editing, Gothic, Historical Fiction, LIFE, Loyalty, Mobile, Mobile Police Department, Mobile’s Historical Facts, PUBLISHING, READING, Reviews, Southern Gothic, WASHINGTON SQUARE SECRETS, WRITING

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• Alliance Vibes

  Alliance: Washington Square Secrets 2 has been out for three months. Several readers have told me it’s my best book, and many of those also say Josephine is their favorite character. Most agree they can’t wait to see Deborah Farley from Discernment on the page with Josephine in the third book because they love both…

  Carrie Dalby

  March 15, 2024

  Alliance, AUTHORSHIP, CURRENT EVENTS, Discernment, Historical Fiction, LIFE, Mobile, Mobile Literary Festival, Public Speaking, PUBLISHING, READING, Reviews, Southern Gothic, THE MALEVOLENT TRILOGY, WASHINGTON SQUARE SECRETS, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Mobile Bay Area, Mobile Literary Festival, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, THE MALEVOLENT TRILOGY, WASHINGTON SQUARE SECRETS, WRITING

• Sharing a Review of ALLIANCE

  Carrie Dalby

  January 7, 2024

  Alliance, AUTHORSHIP, READING, Reviews, WASHINGTON SQUARE SECRETS

  Carrie Dalby, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Southern Gothic, WASHINGTON SQUARE SECRETS

• 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

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• One More Month

  That’s right, Tendrils of Passion releases on November 12! Book two in the series, Murmurs of Evil, can be enjoyed without having read book one, but Tendrils of Passion is best read as a companion to the second book. Here’s an excerpt from Tendrils of Passion: Mrs. Melling tied Magdalene’s petticoat around her abnormally small…

  Carrie Dalby

  October 15, 2019

  AUTHORSHIP, CURRENT EVENTS, Gothic, Historical Fiction, READING, Release Day, Reviews, Southern Gothic, Tendrils of Passion, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, family saga, Gothic, Historical Fiction, literature, Mobile Bay Area, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WRITING