Carley Fortune is the #1 New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of Meet Me at the Lake and Every Summer After. Her books have sold more than one-million copies worldwide. Carley’s third novel, This Summer Will Be Different, comes out May 7, 2024.

Meet Me at the Lake is a breathtaking love story about two strangers who come together when they need each other most. Once, in their early twenties, and again a decade later.

Every Summer After is Carley’s debut novel. The book is a nostalgic story of childhood crushes, first loves, and the people and choices that mark us forever. 

Carley is an award-winning journalist and worked as an editor at some of Canada’s top publications, including The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Toronto Life, and the much-beloved, now-defunct weekly paper, The Grid. She was most recently the Executive Editor of Refinery29 Canada. Carley holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. 

Carley spent her young life in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, and in Barry’s Bay, a tiny lakeside town in rural Ontario and the setting for Every Summer After. 

She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons, and is currently working on her fourth book.

Photograph of Carley by Erin Leydon.