I’ve been wondering about this. Colleen Hoover is well known as the sort of poster girl for sloppily written, baffling and aggressively mediocre books.
What was the equivalent to her in previous times? Like the Romantic or Modernist period?
During the the 1890s, what book was considered “embarassing” or super low brow to be caught with (in the same way the book community largely treats It Ends With Us)?
Similar to EL James (50 shades) started out writing fanfic, moved up to self publishing, then one of their books exploded and they got picked up by a major publisher.
The big difference is that Hoover has put out about 25 books in the 7ish years that she’s been popular, including multiple best seller series, while James has never published a non-50 shades book.
Hoover is also about 20 years younger than James and seems to have quite a road ahead of her.
then exploded. The key difference is that Hoover has