About Hannah
Career
Psychotherapist by day and writer by night, Hannah R. Goodman prefers tea over coffee, cats over dogs, and staying in over going out (especially if that means watching reality dating shows!). Her accomplishments include earning extra letters after her name—MFA, MEd, CGS, LMHC. Her most recent achievement is the publication of I Love That Girl, a New Adult romance novel, by The Wild Rose Press on January 1, 2025. One Goodreads reviewer says I Love That Girlis "simultaneously joyous, sexy, and uncertain" and is "the perfect book for any season of life."
In 2018, Black Rose Writing published her contemporary YA romance novel Till It Stops Beating, which was praised by Literary Titan for "tackling a difficult issue like anxiety and making a story that was funny and sweet without making light of the issue." Though released as a stand-alone book, Till It Stops Beating is the final book in The Maddie Chronicles series. The first three books in the series are currently available in an ebook or paperback boxed set entitled The Maddie Chronicles.
More about Hannah
The Maddie Chronicles began with her first book, My Sister's Wedding, which won first place in the 2004 Writer's Digest Self-Published Books Awards Children's/Teen Division. She published the follow-up, My Summer Vacation, in May 2006, which went on to win a bronze IPPY in 2007. The third Maddie book, Fear of Falling, was released in the fall of 2009 and was praised by teachers and readers for tackling subjects like homophobia and coming out. Hannah has also been published by several online publications, including MindBodyGreen, OC87 Recovery Diaries, and Zencare.co, The Mighty, and Scary Mommy.
Way back in the internet Dark Ages, her young adult short stories were published on the former Amazon’s Shorts. In the early aughts, she had a short story featured in an anthology entitled Bound Is The Bewitching Lilith and an autobiographical short story featured in the journal Balancing The Tides. She also has written columns for The Jewish Voice & Herald. Other previous projects include Sucker Literary, which featured emerging YA authors and All The Way YA, a group blog of writers telling the real deal about writing and publishing YA fiction. She was also featured in Publishers Weekly a very long time ago!
She currently writes about writing, publishing, and mental health on her Substack called Writing My Way Through It.