Carley Fortune: Female Friendships, Right Person Wrong time, and Happy Endings
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
To celebrate the release of her new novel, “This Summer Will Be Different,” my favorite author Carley Fortune joins the podcast today! Carley and I chat about what we’ve learned about love and relationships from the characters and love stories in her three novels. We discuss how her childhood experiences shaped the characters and settings in her books, how female friendships play a major role in relationships, and if “right person, wrong time” holds true. Carley tells us her transformation from award winning journalist to NYT best selling author, and we hear how she met her husband and how he’s supported her through various life changes.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People. |
| 0:10.1 | Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing their stories. |
| 0:16.0 | Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even cry along with us as we navigate |
| 0:21.9 | the dating scene together. I actually cannot believe I'm saying this, but I am here with |
| 0:26.9 | Carly Fortune, not just my favorite author, but I know she is so many of your guys' favorite |
| 0:33.5 | author too, because I don't think I've ever received more DMs of people freaking out than |
| 0:38.6 | when I announced that Carly was coming on the podcast. So Carly, welcome to seeing other people. |
| 0:43.2 | Wow. Thank you for having me. I really am so excited for you to be here. I feel like I know every |
| 0:50.6 | summer after was your debut novel. For me, it was kind of my debut in a way, too, |
| 0:56.3 | because it was the book that made me want to become a reader. Oh, my gosh. I love that. I call that |
| 1:03.4 | a gateway book, the book that makes you want to start reading. And that is such an honor. I'm so |
| 1:08.3 | happy to hear that. I don't know who recommended it to me, but I think one day I was like, I kind of want to try reading. And I think I posted something on my story of like, guys, like, what book is going to lure me in and keep me there? And everyone was like every summer after. I think I read it in two days and I couldn't believe that. I was like, maybe I'll read 10 pages one week and then 10 pages another week and I zoomed through. |
| 1:31.7 | Can I ask you a question? What? Were you a reader when you were young? No. No. Okay. |
| 1:38.3 | Because some people are readers when they're young and then they go away from reading and they come back to it. So I was just curious what your reading journey was. No, I hated when I had to read for any classes that I was |
| 1:50.5 | in. I never, I never enjoyed it. So truly, I mean, I'm 29 now. I guess I probably read every summer |
| 1:55.7 | after when I was 27. It was the first book in 27 years that I loved. That makes me so, so happy, genuinely. |
| 2:04.1 | Me too. So, okay, we are here today because this summer will be different. Your third novel |
| 2:10.9 | is out now. Oh my God. How does that feel? Incredible. I love this book. And I had such a fun time writing it. |
| 2:19.2 | That was my goal with this book was to have a fun writing experience and a fun reading experience. |
| 2:25.0 | And I'm just so proud of it. |
| 2:27.1 | I think it's delightful. |
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