Carley Fortune, MEET ME AT THE LAKE

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Zibby is joined by New York Times bestselling author and repeat MDHTTRB guest Carley Fortune to discuss Meet Me at the Lake (instant #1 NYT bestseller!!!), a stunning summer read about love and loss. Zibby reads a passage that brims with a distinctive sense of voice. Then, Carley discusses the difficulty of writing and revising during her emotional postpartum months, her struggles with self-doubt, her previous career in journalism, and what life outside of writing looks like for her!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.1	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.
1:03.2	Carly Fortune is back on Mom's and Have Time to read books to discuss her book,
1:08.3	Meet Me at the Lake, which I loved. Carly Fortune is an award-winning
1:12.4	Canadian journalist who has worked as an editor for Refinery 29, the Globe and Mail
1:17.3	Shadeline, and Toronto Life. She is the author of the New York Times and number one
1:22.3	Globe and Mail bestselling book every summer after. She lives in Toronto with her husband
1:26.9	and two sons, and I actually
1:28.2	did an event with her when I was in Toronto for Wildflower Kyle's movie, which premiered at the
1:33.9	Toronto Film Festival. Welcome, Carly. Thanks for coming back on moms don't have time to read books
1:38.4	to discuss Meet Me at the Lake, which has the most gorgeous cover. And for those who cannot see,
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