'Anybody that you can think of as a heavy hitting, best selling author, she has outsold them all,' said Kristen McLean, primary analyst for the publishing industry sales tracking firm NPD Books. When life takes a surreal turnīut try as she might to keep things real, Hoover's life has taken an especially surreal turn lately. 'I'm not going to complain when my white towels turn pink,' she said. ♬ Good as Hell - LizzoĪnd she gets a small thrill each time her sons do the laundry. 'And I'm not a coffee person, so I just have to drag myself out of beauty, she’s grace…she is not me. 'I'm not a morning person, so my husband and kids know not to talk to me,' she told NPR in video interview from her home office in Saltillo, Texas - a small town about 90 miles East of Dallas. It also had more pre-orders than any novel in Simon & Schuster's 98-year-old history.ĭespite all of the success, Hoover tries her best to cling on to the trappings of ordinary life. And her latest novel out this past week, It Starts With Us, published by the Simon & Schuster division Atria Books, set a company record for first day fiction sales.Īccording to the company, the novel sold a total of more than 800,000 copies on the day it was released (Oct. She's outsold the Bible by more than 3 million copies so far this year. The top-selling author in the country right now is a 42-year-old mom and former social worker who lives in the same small Texas town where she's spent practically her entire life.Ĭolleen Hoover's romance-heavy reads are regular fixtures on bestseller lists.

Author Colleen Hoover signs her novel, 'It Starts with Us.'

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