About the author

Melanie Hooyenga

<br>Multi-award winning young adult author Melanie Hooyenga writes books about strong girls who learn to navigate life despite its challenges. She first started writing as a teenager and finds she still relates best to that age group. <br><br>Her award-winning YA sports romance series, <em>The Rules Series</em>, is about girls from Colorado falling in love and learning to stand up on their own. Her YA time travel trilogy, <em>The Flicker Effect</em>, is about a teen who uses sunlight to travel back to yesterday. The first book, <em>Flicker</em>, won first place for Middle Grade/Young Adult in the Writer’s Digest 2015 Self-Published eBook awards, and <em>The Rules Series</em> has won ten awards, including Finalist for MG/YA in the 2019 BookLife Prize. The first book in her newest series, <em>Chasing the Sun</em>, won gold for young adult general fiction in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards and was named one of the Best Indie eBooks of 2020 by Barnes &amp; Noble Press.<br><br>When not writing books, you can find her wrangling her Miniature Schnauzer Gus and playing every sport imaginable with her husband Jeremy.<br> <br>THE FLICKER EFFECT TRILOGY<br>Flicker (Book 1)<br>Fracture (Book 2)<br>Faded (Book 3)<br><br>THE RULES SERIES<br>The Slope Rules (Book 1)<br>The Trail Rules (Book 2)<br>The Edge Rules (Book 3)<br><br>THE CAMPFIRE SERIES<br>Chasing the Sun (Book 1)<br>Chasing the Stars (Book 2)<br>Chasing the Moon (Book 3)<br><br>You can learn more about Melanie here:<br><br>Website: melaniehoo.com<br>Facebook: Facebook.com/MelanieHooyenga<br>Twitter: @MelanieHoo<br>Instagram: @MelanieHoo<br>Tiktok: tiktok.com.melaniehooyenga<br>Newsletter: melaniehoo.com/hoos-letter<br>