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No one was ever meant to read Every Summer After.
The best-selling book’s author, Carley Fortune, was a journalist at the time and had spent 15 years climbing the ranks before leading Refinery29 Canada. It was the pandemic, and the writer found herself frustrated professionally and burnt out. The publication had acquired by Vice Media Group, and as Fortune put it, things became messy.
“I spent most of my time arguing on behalf of my team with the company,” Fortune tells The Hollywood Reporter on a recent Zoom. The 42-year-old, who was back at the Canadian lake she grew up on, recalls slamming the phone down after a particularly frustrating call.
She swore to herself in that moment she’d write a book by the end of the year. “I have not done anything creative for myself at all as an adult. It has all been for work and I need to do something for me,” she recalls thinking to herself.
