Carley Fortune
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120 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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It's so true. Yeah. My best friend and I might like disagree on books all the time. Yeah.
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Yes, yes.
So I can't see the characters very clearly. I try to describe them so that you can picture them, but I'm not envisioning an actor playing the role. But the setting, the spaces, I... I can see very, very well. It's almost like a movie set for me. And I do draw out the exteriors. Did you do this? I didn't. The painting on the cover is by Elizabeth Lenny, who's done all my covers. Very good.
Thank you. She's so talented. I'm so grateful for her. But, yeah, I draw, like, the buildings. I draw the shoreline. Like, I like to be able to move my characters through the spaces. Yeah, I love that. And that's kind of how I do it.
I think there's a lot of me in all the characters. And there are, like, bits and pieces of people I know for the characters. So in One Golden Summer – uh, Nan, who is Alice's grandmother. She's inspired by my grandparents.
My mom's parents died before I was born, but they, um, had a cottage when my mom grew up going to a cottage and my grandmother would have the kids by herself during the week at the cottage with no car, no like, you know, laundry machine. And, um, her husband would come up on the weekend when he was done work. And there were these amazing photos of my grandmother at the lake
and in her bathing suit and at this little cottage. And so Nan is really like my homage to my grandmother. I love that. Yeah. And she feels like everybody's grandma.
For me, it is a book that no matter where you're reading it, so maybe you're on the beach or maybe you're in your apartment, you feel like you're transported into the pages. And so I want you to feel like you're on the lake. You can like smell the pine trees. You can feel the breeze on your face and the sun on your skin and that you are with the characters.
Like you are watching these characters, um, interact with each other. They feel really real to you. So you're snooping on them and you are just in that place. You are immersed. You are away from whatever your life may be and you are in the pages of this book. And for me, my books all have happy endings. Hopefully there's big emotions and you're in your feels in lots of different ways.
I want you to laugh and cry and there's steamy bits and I want it to run the gamut, but I also want... readers to feel safe at the end. There's a happy ending and hopefully you walk away feeling better about humans and our ability to empathize with each other and relate to each other. And I think we really need that reminder right now. I agree.
movies yeah so every summer after um is being adapted by amazon as a series okay um and that's greenlit the first season is shooting very soon are you excited i'm so excited what is that feeling like though if you do you get a say in characters that were casted do you get a say in production do you get any of that or do you sort of have to like sort of let go of the reins a little bit
Um, I have like a bit of a say, um, but it's not my adaptation. So it's like not the Carly fortune and version of this book. And because it's a series, it's not, it has to be bigger than the book, right? The world, the characters develop. But it's pretty cool to see how it all comes together. So that's the furthest along.
Meet Me at the Lake has been optioned by Archwell, which is Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's production company. That's awesome. Yes. In conjunction with Netflix. Okay. And that is in development. There is like a beautiful script for it. And I'm so, I'm so excited about that. That was my toughest book to write. And there's a really important mental health story in that book.
And I feel like from like the first conversation about this adaptation, it was going to be treated with such care and respect. And that's like, how I felt every step of the way. For sure. So I'm really, really excited about that. And then my third book, The Summer Will Be Different, has been optioned, but we haven't announced who it's with yet.
Yeah. I mean, it's all seems like there's always, you know, this person might be interested in it or this person and it's like, oh, that's so fun. And I try not to get too excited about any, cause you know how it is.
Like there's a lot of talk and there's a lot of, you know, possibilities, but until you are, you know, having that zoom call with a team or with a group of people and like seeing whether, um, Like they really are interested or you really connect with them and their vision with them. And then until everything's signed and sealed, I try not to get like too. But it's been very surreal.
Like having, you know, four years ago when my first book came out. Um, I like had no, I didn't even know I was going to have a book. Like, so to have all of this happen, it's just like takes, it's taken a while for it to sink in.
They don't know. Um, which is great. And my son, my oldest son kind of is starting to get it, but, um, and he just wants to act in everything. He's like, can I, we have that in common. Can I be in this?
Let me know. Okay. But for Marco, it's been like, I think the first thing for him was how I started writing every summer after, which was I wrote every single day. I would get up at 5 AM and write before I started work. And sometimes after Max went to sleep, I'd write or on the weekend. And I had just transformed and I finished it in four months. And he was like, what is going on? on.
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