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Melanie Hooyenga

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Born

in Michigan, The United States

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Genre

Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary

Member Since

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 · 1,190 ratings · 456 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Slope Rules 4.17 avg rating — 297 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 3.88 avg rating — 118 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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Happy Birthday, Eve Ellaway

Eve and Gen Ellaway turn a year old today! The idea for Eve’s story first came to me over TEN years ago, but I didn’t start writing it until the end of 2018, and finally published in 2025. This book was definitely a long time coming!

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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

Melanie is Currently Reading

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Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

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

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Gesa Sloan is the type of person I'd be friends with. She's strong, smart, and determined, but most importantly, she'll do anything for the people she loves, and that's the trait that carries her from NY society to the wilds of Colorado and beyond. S ...more
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This book is completely addictive! The consumerism and superficial nature of the characters makes it hard to look away, and the more we got to know them, the faster and faster I read. This is an incredible debut and a must read for anyone who enjoys ...more
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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

tags: authenticity, identity, life, self

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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.”
― Melanie Hooyenga, The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway

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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

tags: romance

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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.”
― Melanie Hooyenga, The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway

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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.”
― Melanie Hooyenga, The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway

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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.”
― Melanie Hooyenga, The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway

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