If there’s anything romance novelist Colleen Hoover has learned from working in Hollywood for the past few years, it’s that movie production moves far slower than publishing. The 46-year-old author released an astonishing 24 novels in the first decade of her career, becoming the best-selling author in the world in 2022 with titles like It Ends with Us and Heart Bones. But she has spent much of the last four years cowriting and producing an adaptation of one of them, Reminders Of Him, for big screen release this weekend.

During that time, Hoover’s novels have become a force at the box office. The movie adaptation of It Ends With Us raked in $350 million worldwide in 2024—despite months of nasty legal battling between stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni—and Regretting You scored a respectable $90 million in late 2025. This October’s Verity, starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, will mark her fourth adaptation in just over two years.

By Matt Craig,

Reporter

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