settled their legal battles<\/a> in a civil case.<\/p>\nLively had alleged Baldoni conspired with publicists to pre-emptively destroy her reputation after she privately accused him of sexually harassing her on the movie set.<\/p>\n
Writing about writers<\/p>\n
From Misery to Yellowface, books about writers are favourites among the authors who pen them, and audiences also love a behind-the-scenes look at the literary world.<\/p>\n
It’s fertile ground for novelists writing about a world they’re familiar with, setting the stakes high in an imagined narrative.<\/p>\n
The authentic details an author can bring to such a story are what make them so spicy and alluring as they blend reality and fiction.<\/p>\n
Hoover is a trailblazer<\/p>\n
Verity is based on the worldwide best-selling novel of the same name by Hoover.<\/p>\n
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Colleen Hoover is a trailblazer. (Eric Charbonneau\/Getty Images for Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n
In 2012, Hoover was the first self-published author to top The New York Times bestseller list, which she did again with Verity in 2018, and is a pioneer of modern indie publishing.<\/p>\n
She has since had a great deal of mainstream success.<\/p>\n
Verity was Hoover’s first thriller.<\/p>\n
She had already authored 16 romance books prior to that and amassed millions of fans.<\/p>\n
In adapting the novel, director Michael Showalter aimed to produce a film as closely aligned with the book as possible.<\/p>\n
“The book is a big hit, people love it, so let’s make a movie out of the book,” Showalter said.<\/p>\n
“My approach was to do it the way it was in the book wherever possible.<\/p>\n
“Let people see what a true adaptation would look and feel like and honour that.”<\/p>\n
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