A Novel Experience
“She holds six of the top 10 spots on The New York Times’s paperback fiction best-seller list, a stunning number of simultaneous best sellers from a single author. She has sold 8.6 million print books this year alone — more copies than the Bible, according to NPD BookScan. And her success — a shock that she’s still processing, she said — has upended the publishing industry’s most entrenched assumptions about what sells books.” NYT (Gift Article): How Colleen Hoover Rose to Rule the Best-Seller List. “She still shops at Walmart in her pajamas, and lives on the same 100-acre plot of land where her family’s farm used to be. Her uncle still harvests hay for his cattle on the property.”