Colleen Hoover's first novel, Slammed, was self-published in January, 2012. It hit the NYT a few months later, followed by the sequel, Point of Retreat. She then signed both novels with Atria Books, a division of Simon and Schuster. She self-published her third novel, Hopeless. It was the first self-published title to hit #1 on the NYT and became Amazon's top selling self-published title of the year. She has since signed released seven novels with Atria Books, all hitting the NYT bestsellers list. Two of Colleen's novels, Confess and It Ends With Us, won the 2015 and 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for best romance, consecutively. Confess was then picked up by Awestruck as a series for go90 and is now streaming online.