Rebecca Serle
Rebecca Serle is the bestselling novelist behind In Five Years, One Italian Summer, Expiration Dates, and her new book Once and Again, emotionally precise stories that bend reality just enough to ask what we would do if we knew how things ended. In Five Years, with its single devastating flash-forward, became a word-of-mouth phenomenon and a fixture on the bestseller lists. Before her adult novels she wrote young-adult fiction and co-created the TV adaptation of her book Famous in Love.
Circuit updated August 26, 2026
- Rebecca Serle says In Five Years came from a psychic love prophecy that was off by one day
“In Five Years was inspired almost entirely from this medium reading who gave me a psychic prophecy about my love life.” 10:15
- Rebecca Serle says In Five Years came from a psychic who predicted her future husband’s name and timing
“In Five Years was inspired almost entirely from this this medium reading who gave me a psychic prophecy about my love life.” 18:47
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“I think I approach writing a little bit like that. I'm like, what is the feeling that I want to deliver here? And I get into that feeling and then I write the scene.”
Rebecca Serle · Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton -
“she told me a prophecy about like who my future husband would be and like what his name was and like how I would meet him and when.”
Rebecca Serle · Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton -
“Um yeah, and it was all true and I ended up meeting him and then like the timing was just like it was honestly off by a day.”
Rebecca Serle · Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton -
“In Five Years was inspired almost entirely from this this medium reading who gave me a psychic prophecy about my love life.”
Rebecca Serle · Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton -
“In Five Years was inspired almost entirely from this medium reading who gave me a psychic prophecy about my love life.”
Rebecca Serle · Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton -
“she told me who my future husband would be and like what his name was and like how I would meet him and when.”
Rebecca Serle · Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton
Rebecca Serle says In Five Years came from a psychic love prophecy that was off by one day
Serle’s origin story for In Five Years is either fate, marketing gold, or the cleanest possible explanation of why her novels feel like destiny with a trapdoor.
Rebecca Serle says In Five Years came from a psychic who predicted her future husband’s name and timing
The novelist’s fate-obsessed bestseller has a very on-brand origin story, though it works better as literary fuel than as evidence for the supernatural.