Tag: Southern Gothic
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Setting locations of The Possession Chronicles: Part 1

To follow up my two previous posts focusing on the homes of the characters in The Possession Chronicles, I’m going to take a few weeks to showcase other setting locations. First off, here is a 2018 aerial view of downtown Mobile, Alabama. It’s taken from the north, looking south–so the opposite of a map if…
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The Homes of The Possession Chronicles: Part 2
Welcome back to my mini blog series featuring the homes in The Possession Chronicles. Unless there are requests for other houses, this will wrap up the homes and next time I’ll share other setting locations. I include the addresses so you can do a virtual tour of the neighborhoods with an online map if you’d…
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The Homes of The Possession Chronicles: Part 1

Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts featuring the homes of The Possession Chronicles characters. All the city houses in the family saga are actual homes in Mobile, Alabama. Part of my research is choosing locations that are historically accurate–houses, churches, parks, hotels, and more. For the most part, I keep to…
Carrie Dalby
ARCHITECTURE, AUTHORSHIP, Bellingrath Gardens, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Bigelow Rogers/ George B. Rogers, Gothic, Historic Homes, Historic Mobile Preservation Society, Historical Fiction, INSPIRATION, library, Mobile, Mobile’s Historical Facts, Perilous Confessions, Southern Gothic, 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…
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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)…