Carley Fortune

Carley Fortune is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After, One Golden Summer, This Summer Will Be Different, Meet Me at the Lake, and new on shelves this year, the #1 New York Times bestseller - Our Perfect Storm. Carley, Elin, and Tim start talking about the romance genre and its respect in the industry, Carley’s life as a journalist before turning into a novelist, and how she got her start. They chat about literary tropes, first person point of view, writing believable sex scenes, her Canadian settings, Tofino and Barry’s Bay, her newest novel Our Perfect Storm, and her screen adaptation Every Year After based on her book Every Summer After.

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Carley Fortune Reading List

• Every Summer After
• One Golden Summer
• This Summer Will Be Different 
• Meet Me at the Lake
• Our Perfect Storm

What else are we reading in this episode?

• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montgomery
• Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden
• Fifty Shades of Grey E. L. James
• Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan
• Sandwich by Catherine Newman

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