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Melanie Hooyenga

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in Michigan, The United States

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Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary

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March 2009

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Multi-award winning young adult author Melanie Hooyenga first started writing as a teenager and finds she still relates best to that age group. She has lived in Washington DC, Chicago, and Mexico, but has finally settled down in her home state of Michigan.

When not writing books, you can find Melanie enjoying the great outdoors and playing every sport imaginable with her husband Jeremy.

**Awards**
Flicker
–> 1st Place Winner (MG/YA) of the 3rd Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published eBook Awards (2015)

The Slope Rules
–> Gold Winner (YA General Fiction) 2017, Moonbeam Children's Book Awards
–> Silver Winner (High School Romance) 2017, Children's Literary Classics
–> Bronze Winner (YA Romance) 2017, Readers' Favorite

The Trail Rules
–> Gold Winner (Spe ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 1,199 ratings · 460 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Slope Rules 4.17 avg rating — 299 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flicker (The Flicker Effect, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway 3.90 avg rating — 125 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fracture (The Flicker Effect, #2) 4.47 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trail Rules 4.22 avg rating — 76 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Edge Rules 4.51 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Faded (The Flicker Effect, #3) 4.35 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chasing the Sun (Campfire, #1) 4.19 avg rating — 53 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chasing the Stars (Campfire #2) 4.50 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chasing the Moon (Campfire, #3) 4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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50th Bucket List Recap

Tomorrow's my 51st birthday, so as the final day of my 50th year, I thought I'd do a recap of some B-I-G goals I made for myself. I must admit, when I first made this list, I truly thought I'd do every single thing. After all, they're all things I want to do, so it seemed simple.

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Series by Melanie Hooyenga

The Rules (3 books)
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The Flicker Effect (3 books)
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Campfire (2 books)
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4.30 avg rating — 83 ratings

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Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English, 3th (third) Edition

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“I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.”
― Melanie Hooyenga, Flicker

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“I roll my eyes and the girl I’m talking to tilts her head. “Sorry, not you. I’m being stupid in my head.”
― Melanie Hooyenga, The Slope Rules

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“I live with the regret that I likely watched my sister spirited away from our stroller and out of our lives.”
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“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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“That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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“Sometimes I wonder if I became a writer because of the stories I tell about Gen, or if I’m able to tell her stories because I’m a writer.”
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“We’ve been heading for this moment since we first kissed, the inevitability of our demise as certain as Mom’s inability to crawl out of her mind’s defenses and join the real world.”
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“The line between truth and fiction is nothing more than a shadow moving across a sundial, marking time by falsehoods and tears and a resentment that’s grown so strong it threatens to overwhelm my very existence.”
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