Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover writes contemporary romance, young adult fiction and psychological thrillers, including It Ends with Us and Verity, and brings stories to the screen through Heartbones Entertainment.
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Overview
- Based
- Texas, USA
- Work
- Novelist, screenwriter and producer
- Debut
- Slammed, self-published in 2012
- On screen
- Co-founder of Heartbones Entertainment
Mini bio
How it started.
Before her books filled shelves, Hoover worked as a social worker. She began writing Slammed while her son rehearsed a play, and self-published it in 2012. Word of mouth helped the debut reach the New York Times bestseller list within months.
Readers found her.
Her stories move between first love, difficult family relationships and suspense. It Ends with Us became one of her best-known novels, with BookTok helping bring her work to a new wave of readers. Its sequel, It Starts with Us, followed in 2022.
From page to screen.
Hoover co-founded Heartbones Entertainment with producer Lauren Levine. On Reminders of Him, she helped adapt her own novel into a screenplay and served as a producer. The company also lists Verity and the developing Love, Theoretically among its projects.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
- 2026Woman DownAuthor
- 2022It Starts with UsAuthor
- 2022Reminders of HimAuthor
- 2018VerityAuthor
- 2016It Ends with UsAuthor
- 2012SlammedAuthor
Film
- 2026Reminders of HimCo-screenwriter and producer
- 2025Regretting YouSource novelist and executive producer
Awards
Quotes
I've heard from readers who left terrible situations that my books inspired them to do soColleen Hoover, TIME
In a 2022 email interview, she reflected on readers who told her that her stories helped them leave harmful relationships.
Trivia
- Her readers call themselves the CoHort.
- She created the Book Bonanza reader convention with her two sisters.
- Her official biography lists Diet Pepsi among her favorite things.
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