Never Never: A Romantic Suspense Novel of Love and Fate

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The Texas-based novelist has sold more than 20 million books and is still the toast of TikTok, with the #ColleenHoover hashtag drawing more than 2.4 billion views on the video sharing service. Her most recent book, It Begins With Us, is slated for publication by Atria next week.

I’m still surrounded by the same wonderful husband, wonderful sisters, my mother,” she said. “I actually took the employees that I worked with at my old job, and they work with me now here. We’re all still together all these years later.”Still, writing, while a dream, wasn’t the practical route. Hoover gave Jenna “major props” for becoming a journalist; while she briefly considered majoring in journalism in college, she “got the idea of writing for a career out of (her) head” once she started her family at age 20. Hoover also defended the film’s choice to cast Lively as Lily, despite their age gap, saying it was “her fault” for not aging the characters in her novel appropriately. She explains when she was writing the novel, the "new adult" genre — with characters centered in their early 20s — was very popular. She decided to make Lily 23 at the start of the novel, and she didn’t want Ryle to be much older.

Atria Books and Grand Central Publishing will release five new novels by Colleen Hoover over the next five years, the publishers announced in a news release. She concluded: “I love that there’s discourse surrounding it, I do. I think that people are going to be very pleased. I’m very pleased.” She’s the same Colleen. Really.Make sure to sign up for our books newsletter to have the latest books news delivered straight to your inbox.