Carley Fortune
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120 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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And when we found my editor, Amanda, she's based in New York. She's like, I love the setting. And I was like, great. Like, I'm so happy to hear that. And then, you know, in hindsight, I was like, oh, the setting is like the care, like one of the main characters of that book. And I'm so glad that they had the like strength to be like, no, this is fine.
Like this is going to really work with our readers. Like we don't see a problem here. No, absolutely.
For sure. For sure. And sometimes they often find their way in without me really realizing it. So with this book, Alice, she's a photographer and she is a freelance photographer. So she's really been hustling to get to a spot where she has a list of clients who love her. She's always making her clients happy. She's always saying yes. She's always delivering.
And she's realizing that, wait a second, what am I getting out of this? What creatively... creatively fulfills me. And that is something that I really relate to as a journalist. And she's kind of stepping back and trying to figure out what is work for me now and what do I want? And I think I'm somebody who I can have trouble figuring out what I want. It's like, I am a very hard worker.
I like to say yes. I like to stay busy. But then when things get
are quieter it's like wait a second what do like is this what I want yeah what do I want um and so that like that felt really personal to me and Alice's story and so little like things like that just tend to like I didn't know what her career journey would be right when I started writing but that like felt like right I liked when she does the shoot for the I think it was swish magazine yes and she decides that she's gonna send the pictures that were
It's really hard to do. It's so hard. It's really hard to do. Especially when we want people to be happy with our work and we want to excel. But like you have to like – so how do you do that while like maintaining your dignity and like what you value? It's hard. It is hard.
I hope so. For sure. I worked in women's media for the last part of my career. And a lot of the stories that I would want to assign as an editor about our relationships to money or our jobs or to our family, that kind of comes into the books. So there is this central romance, but there's also looking at our relationship to so many other aspects.
Basically, I cry every book that I write. For sure. I cried at one, the scene where everything kind of falls apart between Charlie and Alice.
cried with this book um readers have been crying throughout like the entire end which i just don't like i didn't i didn't anticipate that the same with every summer after i remember when that book came out people were cold my and my editor when she first read it she was sobbing for like the last hundred pages of the book and i didn't i i cried when i wrote the epilogue to that book but
not through the whole ending. And you just never know how people react. Yeah. Yeah. There's always like my editor always wants to cry.
Oh, I love that. Automatic five stars.
Yeah.
Yeah, I can see that.
So this was really hard. I've never done like created the protagonist after I had the hero. And because I knew Charlie really, really well. well from having written Every Summer After and also having thought about him for many years. I auditioned characters like it was The Bachelor. I created over a dozen characters.
I think I counted 18 women with different names, different job titles, different personalities.
different ways that they intersected with Charlie whether they had known him in the past or not known him before yeah and then I was trying to figure out like both a character whose story I wanted to follow and then how she paired up with Charlie okay I wrote 11,000 words of a book with a different character that I threw away are you serious yeah will you use any of those characters in a future book
Yeah, so we've kind of changed the process, my editor and I, so that I have more time with my first draft before I send it to her. So I give myself about four months to finish the first draft until I get to the end. And I don't revise as I'm going along. And I keep a little graph of how many words I've done. So once I've got 10,000 words done, I color it in. Every 10,000 words, I color it in.
Um, that's kind of cute though. It's really fun. Yeah. I like it. I like getting a gold star and it feels like getting a gold star.
I love that.
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