El Hoffman is the author of The Ever-Dark, The Scarlet-Dawn, and No Other Reason, as well as four poetry collections: The Mirror, The Mask, and All I Ask; The Moon, The Tide, and All I Tried; The Volcano, The Flame, and All I Became; and The Love I Give.
Announcements:
- The Scarlet-Dawn is available for pre-order!
- The Solstice-Solstice is available for pre-order!
- The Love I Give is available for pre-order!
Upcoming Book Signings:
- 06/18/2026 from 10am-2pm at Unicorniverse in Round Rock, TX
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09/12/2026 at 1pm at Barnes & Noble in Orem, Utah
Fiction Books
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The Ever-Dark : a literary fantasy novella
Book #1 in The Indirettan Chronicles
The Ever-Dark is a novella about identity, found family, and the courage it takes to face the unknown. It is available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover.
Violet Evans has never fit in. But when she crosses into the magical realm, she finally starts to feel like she has a place in life. Until she accidentally shuts the portal home, cursing the world with the ever-dark: a sky that stays dark purple all day, with the sun frozen on the horizon, never rising, before shifting to black at night.
Determined to right her wrongs, Violet sets out to reopen the portal. But if she succeeds, what will be waiting for her on the other side? A community that hates her? A life she never truly belonged in? Or something far worse?
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The Scarlet-Dawn : a literary fantasy novelette
Book #2 in The Indirettan Chronicles
The Ever-Dark is a novelette about identity, found family, and the courage it takes to face the unknown. It is available in ebook and paperback.
Five years after the realm was saved, Scarlet Evans is still waiting to rule it.
Heir apparent in name only, sixteen-year-old Scarlet has spent years watching her mother Ruth make every decision from behind a closed door. But when strange distortions ripple across Indiretta—fires snuffed out, children recounting memories that never happened, bodies turning up in a cornfield—Scarlet begins to suspect that the woman who claims to support her has never had the realm's interests at heart.
With a talking cat, a sister who has moved on with her own life, and a girl named Evony she's trying very hard not to think about, Scarlet sets out to save a world she never asked to inherit.
No Other Reason : a contemporary romance novelette
No Other Reason is a cute, high-angst, slow-burn contemporary romance about friendship, timing, and the things we don’t say—until we finally do. It is available in ebook and paperback.
Phoebe Johnson is a legal assistant working her way toward becoming a lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina. Stephan Hale is a soft-spoken artist in West Texas. They haven’t seen each other since childhood—not since his family suddenly moved away.
When they reconnect online and Stephan decides to visit, old memories resurface. So do feelings that never truly went away. But they’re just friends… right? No Other Reason is a cute, high-angst, slow-burn contemporary romance about friendship, timing, and the things we don’t say—until we finally do.
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Poetry Books
The Mirror, The Mask, and All I Ask : a poetry collection
The Mirror, The Mask, and All I Ask is a poetry collection on love, grief, and survival. It is available in ebook and paperback.
El Hoffman explores what it means to keep going despite adversity—balancing existing and surviving with finding your footing, being yourself, and staying honest in the modern world.
This is a collection for anyone who has ever felt the need to mask to fit in, mirror others to find themselves, or who has loved or grieved deeply.
The Moon, The Tide, and All I Tried : a poetry collection
The Moon, The Tide, and All I Tried is a poetry collection on love, grief, and survival. It is available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover.
From the author of The Ever-Dark, No Other Reason, and The Mirror, The Mask, and All I Ask comes a second collection of poetry on love, grief, and survival.
El Hoffman explores these themes in greater depth than in her previous works, continuing her commitment to honesty and balancing humor with seriousness through metaphor and modern language.
Additional purchase links can be found here.
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The Volcano, The Flame, and All I Became : a poetry collection
"You asked me to trust you. So I fell back, intending to land in your arms. But you weren’t there, and you let me fall—alone."
From the poet of The Moon, The Tide, and All I Tried and The Mirror, The Mask, and All I Ask comes a collection that explores the friction of finding your own light.
The Volcano, The Flame, and All I Became is a visceral account of displacement, the resilience of the pedestrian life, and the boundaries required to survive betrayal. It covers the literal miles walked through the streets of Salt Lake City, the "masking" required to navigate a neurotypical world, and the "Safety Hazard, M.D.s" who prove that sometimes the person who promised to care is the one who lets you fall.
Unfiltered, literal, and at times sharply defiant, this is for anyone who has dragged their suitcases to a new city and is finally ready to find their footing on their own mountain.
Additional purchase links can be found here.
The Love I Give : a poetry collection
The Love I Give is a poetry collection on love, grief, heartbreak, and honesty. It is available to pre-order in ebook and paperback.
"Should I tell you the truth and risk losing you, or should I continue not saying how I feel and risk losing myself?"
From the poet of The Mirror, The Mask, and All I Ask; The Moon, The Tide, and All I Tried; and The Volcano, The Flame, and All I Became comes a poetry collection that explores the raw, often agonizing friction between loving someone completely and needing to remain honest to yourself.
The Love I Give is a visceral account of unrequited love, the quiet sacrifices we make in the name of connection, and the resilience required to stay true to your own reality when someone else’s feelings don’t match your own. It covers the weight of lingering memories, the ache of being "just friends" with the person you see as your life partner, and the complex journey of navigating affection through a neurodivergent lens.
Unfiltered, literal, and at times sharply honest, this is for anyone who has given their whole heart to someone whose love doesn’t match their own, who has sacrificed their own needs to keep the peace, or is finally ready to demand the truth—even if it’s from themselves.
Additional purchase links can be found here.
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About the Author
El Hoffman (born February 8, 2000) is an author, poet, and data expert. A lifelong writer, she debuted with the literary fantasy novella The Ever-Dark. The novelette The Scarlet-Dawn serves as its direct sequel. El is also the author of the contemporary romance novelette No Other Reason and four poetry collections: The Mirror, The Mask, and All I Ask; The Moon, The Tide, and All I Tried; The Volcano, The Flame, and All I Became; and The Love I Give. Her work has also been featured in multiple anthologies.
Outside of fiction, El has built a career implementing HubSpot for businesses and earned her Master of Science in Data Analytics from Eastern University in 2024.
When she’s not writing or working, she enjoys reading ebooks, taking long walks, and hula hooping. She’s also passionate about video games, cooking, exploring new restaurants, and traveling.
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