- Amanda Hocking
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Amanda Hocking Born July 12, 1984 Occupation Author Genres Young-adult fiction Subjects Paranormal romance
amandahocking.blogspot.comAmanda Hocking (born July 12, 1984)[1] is an American writer of paranormal romance young-adult fiction.[2]
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Career
Hocking lives in Austin, Minnesota. Employed as an assisted living worker until 2010, she wrote 17 novels in her spare time.[3] In April 2010, she began self-publishing them as e-books.[1] By March 2011, she had sold over a million copies of nine books and earned two million dollars from sales, something previously unheard of for self-published authors.[4] In early 2011, Hocking averaged 9,000 book sales each day.[2]
Work
Hocking's published work, so far entirely self-published, consists of My Blood Approves, a vampire romance series; the Trylle Trilogy, which covers a teenage girl's journey of self-discovery[3] in an urban fantasy setting; and Hollowland, a zombie novel.[3] The New York Times characterized her novels as "part quirky girl-like-Hocking characters, part breakneck pacing, part Hollywood-style action and part bodice-ripping romance – they are literature as candy, a mash-up of creativity and commerce."
In March 2011, Hocking signed her first conventional publishing contract for four books, at a price of two million dollars, with St. Martin's Press. It concerns a new young-adult paranormal series to be called "Watersong."[5] All three books in her previously self-published Trylle Trilogy have also been sold to St. Martin's Press, and will be released with them in early 2012 with wider distribution.
Bibliography
- My Blood Approves series:
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- My Blood Approves (2010)
- Fate (2010)
- Flutter (2010)
- Wisdom (2010)
- Letters to Elise (novella, 2010)
- Swear (2012)
- Trylle Trilogy:
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- Switched (self published 2010, with St. Martin's January 24, 2012)
- Torn (self published 2010, with St. Martin's February 28, 2012)
- Ascend (self published 2011, with St. Martin's April 24, 2012)
- The Hollows series:
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- Hollowland (2010)
- Hollowmen (Fall 2011)
- Virtue (2011)
- Watersong series: (with St. Martin's)
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- Wake (Fall 2012)
- Lullaby (2013)
- Tidal (TBA)
- Elegy (TBA)
Adaptations
In February 2011 the Trylle Trilogy was optioned for a film, with Terri Tatchell writing the screenplay.[4]
External links
References
- ^ a b Plank, Tonya (January 5, 2011). "Meet Mega Bestselling Indie Heroine Amanda Hocking". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tonya-plank/meet-mega-bestselling-ind_b_804685.html. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
- ^ a b Saroyan, Strawberry (June 17, 2011). "Storyseller". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/magazine/amanda-hocking-storyseller.html. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
- ^ a b c Mewes, Trey (November 13, 2010). "Romance from beyond the veil". Austin Daily Herald. http://www.austindailyherald.com/2010/11/13/romance-from-beyond-the-veil/. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
- ^ a b Millar, Sarah (3 March 2011). "How a failed author made $2 million from e-books". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/948078--how-a-failed-author-made-2-million-from-e-books. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ Bosman, Julie (24 March 2011). "Self-Publisher Signs Four-Book Deal With St. Martin’s". New York Times. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/self-publisher-signs-four-book-deal-with-macmillan. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
Categories:- Writers from Minnesota
- Writers of young adult literature
- American fantasy writers
- Women novelists
- 1984 births
- American romantic fiction writers
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- Living people
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