Finding Cinderella

Colleen Hoover is the author of many contemporary romance novels, including the Hopeless series. Finding Cinderella is the third installment in the series, offering fans a deeper look into the lives of secondary characters Six and Daniel from the Hopeless series, which first focuses on Sky and then Holder.

In the foreword to Finding Cinderella, Hoover reveals what she calls her own “Cinderella story.” Having loved writing as a young girl, Hoover always wanted to become a writer. For years, she pushed the dream aside as she raised three children, worked full-time, and pursued a social work degree. She buried her dream of writing as a career, dismissing it as a fairy tale. After watching her middle son’s creative passion peak while participating in a community children’s theater, Hoover’s creative desires stirred, and she began writing again. It was not until she self-published her first novel, Slammed, on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing Program that Hoover began to achieve popular acclaim, leading to her robust writing career.

Hoover reflects on her journey as a writer, acknowledging the fairy-tale-like elements of her happy ending: “In the past two years, I have gone from a mother who refused to believe that a childhood fantasy could become a reality, to a writer with five books that have all become New York Times Best Sellers” (XIII).