One Golden Summer With Carley Fortune
Barely Famous
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the shit show. |
| 0:02.9 | Things are going to get weird. |
| 0:04.0 | Get weird. |
| 0:04.5 | It's your fave villain, Kail Lowry. |
| 0:06.4 | And you're listening to Barely Famous. |
| 0:24.9 | Welcome back to another episode of Barely Famous Podcast. |
| 0:27.9 | Today I'm sitting with the lovely author, Carly Fortune. |
| 0:29.4 | Welcome to Barely Famous Podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm so excited you're here. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm about two-thirds of the way through one golden summer. Love it. |
| 0:35.7 | And I'm so excited because I go back to the lake in my hometown every single year. |
| 0:40.9 | And so I feel like this is right up my alley. |
| 0:43.2 | You get it. |
| 0:43.9 | You're a lake girl. |
| 0:45.1 | I love it. |
| 0:45.7 | So congratulations on the release of your new book. |
| 0:48.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:49.0 | Are you excited? |
| 0:49.9 | I am so excited. |
| 0:51.0 | I think I'm most excited, like more than any other book, this book I'm most |
| 0:55.2 | excited about. Why do you say that? I think it's because I, like, as this is my fourth book, |
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