The author | Carley Fortune
An award-winning journalist and editor at some of the top newspapers and magazines in Canada, Carley Fortune has now made a name for herself as an author, too. Her nostalgic and heartwarming novels Every Summer After and Meet Me At the Lake have earned her a legion of fans — which now includes Meghan and Prince Harry. The pair’s production company bought the film rights to Meet Me At the Lake for a yet-to-be-determined movie or series, and we’re sure the subject of her novel had something to do with that. A 30-something couple falling in love in Toronto — sounds familiar, sans British royalty!
By Courtney Shea, Friend, journalist and writer
Carley started working on her first novel, Every Summer After, as an escape from the pandemic: The real world was chaos — this was her way of spending time in a place that made her happy. More than a million books sold later and it’s clear a lot of other people want to spend time there too. There are writers who work in a vacuum — who toil in pursuit of their own version of excellence, even if nobody ends up reading it. Carley is not that kind of writer. Long before she topped the New York Times bestseller list, she was a magazine editor driven to connect content with an audience. To say Carley’s sharp, endearing, gloriously horny fiction has connected with readers an understatement. And now her fan base includes Meghan and Prince Harry, who are developing Meet Me at the Lake into a movie for Netflix. What a joy to see my friend’s success surpass every imaginable marker, many that would have seemed unimaginable in her magazine days. What I admired most about Carley then was her instinctive sense of fairness. Working in women’s media, she always thought about which stories needed to be told. Which is really just another way of saying she is loyal to her audience. And now, they are loyal right back.Â
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