This week on Barely Famous, Kail sits down with New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune, the mind behind viral romance hits Every Summer After, Meet Me at the Lake, and the brand-new release One Golden Summer. Carley opens up about her writing process, the real-life inspiration behind her lake-set novels, and how reader demand led her to finally give fan-favorite Charlie his long-awaited love story.Kail and Carley discuss everything from imposter syndrome and mental health, to balancing motherhood with a fast-paced publishing career. Carley shares how her personal experiences, including postpartum OCD and her time running Refinery29 Canada, deeply inform her characters. Plus, she teases exciting details about screen adaptations in the works, including her Amazon and Netflix deals.Whether you’re a longtime fan, an aspiring author, or new to the romance genre, this heartfelt episode is packed with creative inspiration, behind-the-scenes stories, and advice on writing with purpose.Purchase One Golden Summer HereChapter 7 book club is reading One Golden Summer together head to patreon.com/kaillowry to sign up!Thanks for supporting the show by checking out the sponsors!IQ Bar: To get 20% off IQ Bar and free shipping text FAMOUS to 64000bHiya: for 50% off their best selling children’s vitamin head to hiyahealth.com/famousNutrafol: Start your hair growth journey with Nutrafol nutrafol.com promo code FAMOUSGIFTShopify: Start your one dollar a month free trial period at shopify.com/famousSearch for your newest home on apartments.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Welcome to the shit show. Things are going to get weird. It's your fave villain, Kale Lowry. And you're listening to Barely Famous. Welcome back to another episode of Barely Famous Podcast. Today I'm sitting with the lovely author Carly Fortune. Welcome to Barely Famous Podcast. Thank you. I'm so excited you're here. I'm about two thirds of the way through One Golden Summer. Love it.
And I'm so excited because I go back to the lake in my hometown every single year. And so I feel like this is right up my alley.
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.
What inspired this book? I know you said the readers were asking for it, but when readers are asking you for something, how do you actually bring it to fruition?
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.
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