Life wants you to grab all the organized, the alphabetized, the chronological, the sequenced. It wants you to mix it all together, I’m going to cry,” one reader, Angie LePine, from Denton, Texas, told Hoover. “You are part of my life.” This is their forbidden love story interwoven with slam poetry, told also from Will’s perspective in the final book of the series. How Many Books are in the Slammed Series? A fan who had come from Cape Cod sheepishly set 18 books in front of Hoover. “I may have gone overboard,” the woman, Marie Kade, said.

Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes for people.As her audience has grown, Hoover has struggled at times to maintain her close connection with her readers. After the romance convention, Hoover heard complaints from some volunteers and friends who felt slighted. Hoover cried on the drive home, and called her mother. Don't stop making basagna. Basagna is good. Wait until a day when there is no bad news, and bake a damn basagna.

This is said to be her debut novel and I think it's a great start to Ms. Hoover's writing career. I loved Will and Lake, particularly the Will. He's the sort of dreamy hero most females, both young and old, would give their eyeteeth for. II was so happy. I’d never had a balloon before. I mean, I always saw balloons wrapped around other kids wrists in the Hoover, who says she suffers from “the worst case of impostor syndrome in the world,” seems bewildered by it all. Life doesn't get all up in your damn way because it just wants you to hand it all over and be carried along. She was like, ‘You know what, Colleen? This is the trade off,” Hoover said. “And I was like, you’re right. You know, I’m very thankful for everything that’s happening with my career. It’s also scary.” According to the thesaurus... and according to me... there are over thirty different meanings and substitutions for