Carley Fortune
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120 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Carley Fortune’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You get it you're a late girl I love it so congratulations on the on the release of your new book thank you are you excited I am so excited I think I'm most excited like more than any other book this book I'm most excited about why do you say that I think it's because this is my fourth book and I've become more confident with every book. And also because readers have asked me for this book.
And ever since my first book came out, it's like a companion novel to that book. It has characters from that novel. And people have been asking me for this book for years. And I finally felt like I was in a place where I could tackle it, like I felt confident enough to tackle it. And so I'm just excited that it's out there. And
It's the beginning of May, so it feels like it's time for summer reading and some escapism and a happy ending. I feel like we need this kind of book right now.
Yeah, that's a good question. So one of the characters in this book, his name is Charlie. He was a brother in Every Summer After. And after that book came out, people wanted more of the main characters, but they also wanted him to have a love story, a happy ending. And I had people approach me at book events. I had two women wait at the very end of the signing line for like an hour and a half.
And they looked at me and they said, we have a bone to pick with you. Yeah. And I said, what? And they said, well, we've waited here all night to tell you, like, we need a happy ending for Charlie. Justice for Charlie. Justice for Charlie. And I would have pitches for who he should be with. The people were like matching him with characters from my other books and they were in my DMs all the time.
And so I had him, like, I knew that I could write him. I felt like I'd been thinking about him since I finished Every Summer After, like even before I had an agent, even before I had a book deal. his voice was in my head. And back then when I got my editor, we had talked about maybe a book for him, but I didn't really have an idea.
And then, um, the, you know, when I was thinking about what I wanted to do for my fourth book, I thought, you know, it's, it's time I've been thinking about Charlie. I feel like I can kind of put all the expectations of readers and opinions of which there were many aside and kind of tell the story that I wanted to tell. And it
Every Summer After is really about like my relationship with the lake where I grew up on the lake in Barry's Bay, the setting of the book. I lived in the bush down a dirt road and cottagers would come in the summer. They would come to their lake houses in the summer and the lake would kind of explode.
And so that book is about my like teenage years, whereas this book is really about kind of what the lake means to me as an adult. And it was really a matter of figuring out who the protagonist would be because I had Charlie and I did not know who she would be. And all my books have started with settings. All of them have started with the heroines.
And now I was like, I have to figure out who she is. And it was so hard to do.
Thank you.
I'm so glad.
Yeah. Okay. So for the men, the male characters, they're usually names that my husband vetoed when we were naming our boys. What?
That's so creative.
Right.
Yes. Yes. I love it. Yes. And Charlie was a name that I really loved. Even when I was pregnant with my second, I was like, could I name them Charlie? I'm like, no, Carly and Charlie is too similar.
Um, so that's where Charlie came from. And then Alice, like the, the female characters are all a bit different, but Alice is a girl's name that like one of my favorite girls names and we don't have girls. So, um, I gave, gave it to Alice and then I was trying to, I wasn't sure about her name cause I wasn't sure it fit with Charlie, Alice and Charlie. Um,
But then when I came up with her last name, which is Everly, Alice Everly, I just loved how that sounded. And then I was like, oh, Charlie would say that in such a sexy way.
Yes. Which I think is cute. It's a nice little twist of name.
I do. My parents still live there. Really? Yes. Yeah. So we had this house on the lake and they sold it 15 years ago. And I hadn't got, they still live in town. They had an inn and a restaurant, which they sold. And now they have a house in town. And before I wrote Every Summer After, I visited our house on the lake for the first time since my parents had sold it.
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