A sequel, Point of Retreat, was published in February 2012. She states that she published the novel so her mother, who had just gotten an Amazon Kindle, could read it. Hoover self-published Slammed in January 2012. She was inspired by a lyric, 'decide what to be and go be it,” from an Avett Brothers song, 'Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise,' and she incorporated Avett Brothers lyrics throughout the story. In November 2011, Hoover began writing her debut novel, Slammed, with no intention of getting published.

She worked various social work and teaching jobs, prior to starting her career as an author. Hoover graduated from Texas A&M-Commerce with a degree in social work. She married Heath Hoover in 2000, and they have three sons.

She grew up in Saltillo, Texas, and she graduated from Saltillo High School in 1998. Hoover was born on December 11, 1979, in Sulphur Springs, Texas, to Vannoy Fite and Eddie Fennell. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023. Hoover has sold approximately 20 million books, as of October 2022. Many of her works were self-published, before being picked up by a publishing house. She is best known for her 2016 romance novel, It Ends with Us. it only further threatens it.Colleen Hoover (born Margaret Colleen Fennell December 11, 1979) is an American author who primarily writes novels in the romance and young adult fiction genres. Unfortunately for Daniel, finding true love doesn't guarantee a happily ever after. One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in love-at-first-sight is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality. Moments like that happen only in fairy tales.

When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them seemed perfect only because they were pretending it was. But this love has conditions: they agree it will last only one hour, and it will be only make-believe. This printed edition includes exclusive new material-a new epilogue and an essay written by the author.Ī chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a novella about the search for happily ever after.

Finding Cinderella by Colleen Hoover