Carley Fortune
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120 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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One a year, one a year. Um, and that is like plenty. Cause I spend, yeah, I spend four months drafting and then I step away from it for a couple of weeks and then I start revising by my, like on my own. Um, and that takes like a good chunk of time before I, so I just turned in the first draft of my fifth book to my editor and, Um, so would you have a release date for like 2026? Yes. Yes.
That's right. Yeah. We don't have a date yet, but yes, yes. That's the, that's the plan. Oh, I love that.
I think in your case, I would tell myself that nobody is ever going to read it.
Anyone. But like, I think for you as a passion project first. Yeah. Just write, just write, assuming nobody's going to read it. Just write it as like the thing that you, the story you want to tell without all, you can edit anything, right? You need the words first. Right. You can make adjustments. You can improve it, but you need to have a first draft done.
And so whatever you need to do to give yourself permission to do that and space and confidence to do it, whether that's like, I am going to give myself an hour twice a week to work on it, or I'm going to give myself a word count goal. For me, I was like, I'm going to finish it by the end of the year.
And I figured out that in order to get an 80,000 word manuscript done by the end of the year, I needed to write 388 words a day. Oh, wow. So that's what I did. I just wrote 380 words a day. Sure. And it got done. And then I think having – it is so lovely to write with, like, no anticipation of anybody reading it. True. And then read a lot. Like, read widely, which you do.
And I found writing my book – I felt so, like – I felt so rebellious about it because it wasn't for my job and it wasn't for my family. It was just for me. And I think sometimes it can feel really hard to do things that are just for us. And so we need to kind of like – the first step is figuring out how to like claw – out some of that time and like the permission just to have fun and do it.
Oh, that's a good question. I feel like I have so many favorite authors and all my, like my favorite romance authors are all coming out with like new books right now. Tia Williams has a new book that's out today, which is, um, a YA novel. That's a Seven Days in June. And this book is about the character's daughter and her romance. So I'm really excited about that. I love Tia Williams.
I love Emily Henry. I love Annabelle Monaghan. I just read this book called Sandwich by Katherine Newman. I've seen it. Does it have the beach cover? Yes. I know exactly which one you're talking about. I think this book is a book every single woman needs to read. I'll add it. It is... so beautifully done. It's very short.
Um, the writing is incredible and it's about this family going, going to this beach house. They go every year. And the, the, the mother, she's about 50 and she is really going through the, like the hormones. And she is like, it just feels so relatable and it's about grief and it's about marriage and it's about parenting and And I felt like I was in conversation with womanhood reading it.
And it's a fast read. Oh, good. It's so good. And it's funny.
Or do you read a lot of like women's fiction? I'll read like a couple of thrillers every every now and then depending on what they are. And I yeah, I do read outside of romance. Okay, quite a bit. Sometimes like I love I want to have that comfort. And sometimes I want to read something completely different from what I do.
I don't. I haven't been on a historical fiction kick yet.
But I feel like I need to because I love history.
Thank you. Yeah.
Yeah.
Seven Husbands of Emily? No, The Husbands by Holly Gravazio. No, is it good? I feel like you would like it. It's about a woman. It's British. Okay. And so it has that wonderful British voice. Yeah. And it's about this woman who comes home drunk from the pub and there's a man in her flat and And she realizes like she's looking at her phone and her hand, they're married. It's her husband.
And she's freaking out and then he goes up to the attic to find something and down comes another man. And what is happening is her attic is sending her different husbands. And if she wants to change the husband, she sends him back up to the attic and another guy comes down. And with each husband, her life is slightly different. So it's like the butterfly effect. Yes. Yes.
Except it's like, it's a comment on dating. It's like, it's so, you have to read it and it's so good. And, um, it's like, it's a mystery. It's a thriller. There's like, like it's everything. I just feel like you would love it. I would probably love it. I,
I'm on Instagram at Carly Fortune and, uh, my website is carlyfortune.com. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you.
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