Carley Fortune
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120 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Um, he was so excited and he, like, he has been like, of course, like, of course, like it makes so much sense. Um, but it had like, sometimes I think it was like last summer, maybe the summer before, sometimes we just look at each other, like, what is going on? Like, this is so...
Oh, like I have no doubt that like BookTok has an enormous influence.
Like I'm not on it. So that is, I don't see, but it's everywhere. And I think it's so wonderful. Like I, having been in journalism and worked in magazines and newspapers and really like wanting to connect with an audience and, and sometimes publishing really wonderful stories that nobody like was reading.
Um, and so having like all this passion on book talk with people, like readers connecting other readers with stories and showing, you know, and I think what I love about romance and romanticist readers on book talk is there's no shame about what they love. And I think that's so wonderful. And, um, yeah. And I like, I've
I was on book, I was on TikTok, um, as a journalist and then it was still on when Every Summer After came out and it was so fun to watch it start to explode. And then at one point there was a video that was like, um, it just is like slams down the book and it's like worst romance book ever. And it had 64,000 likes. And I was like, oh, this place is not for me. Yeah.
It wasn't yours though, was it? It was mine.
And it was like, for one, it's kind of amazing. Like I have created this book that people feel so, so many people have opinions on. But it was a real moment where I was like, okay, Carly, you are going to delete this and this is not a place for you anymore.
I'm really lucky. My husband has pulled away from his work. And so he is able and I write at home. So my office is at home. But he is able to like do the drop off and pick up in the morning. He does lunches, he does dinners. And so I'm able to just like go like after the kids leave in the morning, I go to my office and I write all day.
Um, I break for like exercise and then, um, I stop when, when the kids come home at four 30, sometimes I work a little bit longer. Um, but that's, that's it. And because, you know, because he's home, because I don't have to worry about food, I don't have to worry about laundry. Um, I don't have to worry about pickup. If the kids are sick, he will take them to the doctor.
It's become so much more manageable. I wrote my third book. with like the kids being, Marco was still working and the kids were sick all the time and I was sick all the time. And I think we had three weeks of good health between like September and March. And by the time I was, that's kind of my writing period. By the time we got to spring, I was, I just had a full breakdown.
I was like, I can't do this work as a mom looking after these kids. Like I can't write with sick kids at home and I'm sick all the time. And that's when Marco stepped back from his job.
I am. I'm so glad. That's really cool. I couldn't do it without him.
Yeah. When I started writing the book, like I wanted to write about where I grew up and how I grew up and that was Barry's Bay because it was just for me. But then when I started thinking about publishing the book, Canadian writers historically have been told that – I cared about getting an audience. If I was going to publish something, I wanted people to read it.
Canadian authors have been told that Americans are not interested in books set in Canada, so a lot of the time you'll see authors setting their books in the States. And, or, and so when I was out to agents, I asked everyone, like, is it okay that my book is set in Canada? And I had varying opinions about that. What was that? I don't understand that.
Well, outside of America, the kind of like take is that Americans aren't interested in anything other than America.
I mean.
When I went out, when I went and spoke to readers about Every Summer After and relayed that, they're so offended by this notion. Yes. Literally. But I had also talked to authors who had said, yeah, my book that was set in Canada didn't sell as well as my book set in the States. And it's just this long... Canada is so bombarded with American media.
And there's... Canadian musicians have a hard time breaking in. And there's just this... Historically, there was this idea that if you want to break in to that market, you have to... talk to that market market more like the book shouldn't be super Canadian and so I I was not willing I had an agent tell me a Canadian agent tell me that I should set the book in like a coastal uh east coast to
town in the States. And I was like, I've never been there. You can't. I cannot. I can't. I won't. I guess it could be like Barry's Bay nowhere.
go to Barry's Bay or grew up on Barry's Bay like they will be able to connect to this in a different way yes you know what I mean and I think like for audiences outside of Canada it adds to the escapism because you've never been there and what I found like when I signed with my agent Taylor, she's based in Los Angeles. And she's like, I love the setting.
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