"This, even though Petra, like Hoover, is an author of novels in a range of genres, who starts writing as a hobby, gets popular and famous from it, earns more money than she ever expected, then has a brush with online controversy around a film adaptation of one of her novels and suffers a tremendous, emotionally debilitating, income-drying-up case of writer's block."
"Hoover, a former social worker, is such a publishing phenomenon that she has been named one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world. Two of her novels have been adapted into movies, and two more are coming this year. The author has been around long enough to have gone through multiple cycles of being embraced and rejected online."
"And although she has held herself carefully apart from Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively's high-profile legal mess surrounding the 2024 film adaptation of her 2016 book It Ends With Us- telling Elle in November of last year that she found the situation "sad" and was "trying to stay removed from the negativity"-after the book found a wider audience due to the movie's popularity, long-standing critiques of the story's treatment of the dynamics around domestic violence also received new oxygen."
Petra is a novelist who begins writing as a hobby, attains rapid popularity and unexpected financial success, then encounters online controversy tied to a film adaptation and develops severe, income-draining writer's block. Colleen Hoover disavows direct parallels between Petra's experiences and her own, asserting that Woman Down does not replicate her journey or morals. Hoover, a former social worker, has been named among Time's 100 most influential people; two novels have become films and two more adaptations are scheduled. Hoover has experienced cycles of online embrace and rejection and distanced herself from the legal dispute over the 2024 film adaptation of It Ends With Us.
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