Tag: 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

• What Grows in Family Trees?

  We are being watched and someone will want to model us—especially if there are children in our home. Fortunately, the most recent habit of mine that has been chosen by one of my kids is harmless. At least, I like to think it is. Returning readers will recognize the following image: For those unfamiliar, that…

  Carrie Dalby

  October 21, 2014

  Creativity, Family, Fernando, ferns, INSPIRATION, LIFE, NATURE/SEASONS, seasons, trees

  Mobile Bay Area, 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

• World Book Night

  It’s World Book Night and I’m a proud book giver. I got a jump on my giving so the twenty copies of Bridge to Terabithia that I had are already gone, thanks to an afternoon visit to a local elementary school. When I drove around the block, looking for the entrance to the parking lot,…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 23, 2014

  Friends, INSPIRATION, Katherine Paterson, library, LIFE, Memories, middle grade, Mobile, READING, WRITING

  literature, Mobile Bay Area, WRITING