Three books later, withHopeless, she made history as the first self-published author to hit the No.

1 spot on the list.

Now withAll Your Perfects, her 17th book overall, Hoover is diverging a bit from her path.

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Credit: Chad Griffith; Atria Books

I was a social worker.

I worked 11-hour days all day long.

I have three little kids they were little at the time, theyre all teenage boys now.

I worked all the time.

Four months later, I self-published it.

It hit theNew York Timesbest-seller list.It was a whirlwind.

It happened so fast, and my life is completely different now, but still so much the same.

I still have my boys and my husband.

I travel a lot.

I hadnt traveled outside of Texas before writing my book, and now I go everywhere.

Were you always an avid reader/lover of romance?

And how did you decide you wanted to write one yourself?Ive always wanted to be a writer.

Since I was 4 years old.

I was so ready to go to school and learn how to write.

I read a lot growing up.

I loved to read.

I had never read a romance before writing my first book.

I didnt even know that I had written a romance.

I read a lot of true crime.

Its just crazy that thats the story that came out of me.

I didnt know that I liked it.

Im not a romantic person, but I love it now.

I read a lot of romance, and thats basically all I write.

You began self-publishing and then moved to Atria, your current publisher.

Why did you decide to make that move?I self-published first.

I didnt even venture to get it traditionally published because I just never viewed myself as a writer.

I was like, Hey, Im going to put this story on here.

Its going to be free for five days.

Itll be fun to have it on your Kindles.

I didnt think anything would come of it.

I actually I turned down a couple of offers until Atria.

I just really liked her, and we connected on a personal level…. Theyd done so well with the editing ofSlammed.

I was like, This can help me learn more.

Thats really why I did it, because I had never taken a writing class.

I didnt know a whole lot.

Your books tend to be about damaged people finding their happy endings.

Thats because Im a very stoic person.

I dont have a lot of emotions.

Thats why I go a little deeper and write about traumatic things.

I dealt with a lot of sexual abuse cases.

A lot of romances, yours included, are about new love.

She was telling me about it and I was like, Oh my God, thats so beautiful.

I want to write a book about that.

Thats really what started that.

I knew it would have to center around a marriage that had been going on for several years.

You grapple with issues a lot of women and couples face infertility, miscarriage, and childlessness.

I usually develop the characters first.

I knew I wanted them to struggle with something in their marriage.

That didnt even start until a third of the way through.

I know thats weird, but its how my books work.

I never sit down and think, Okay, this is the issue Im tackling.

Quinn is an author, trying to get her first book published.

I put a little bit of myself into every character I write.

Ive never written anything remotely similar to a psychological thriller, so Im really excited about it.

Its got romance aspects in it, but completely different from what I normally write.