Martin's Press, and have been re-released from January–April 2012. All three books in her previously self-published Trylle Trilogy were also sold to St. Read More Privacy Notice Terms of Uses St. After selling over a million copies of her books, primarily in eBook format, she is widely considered the exemplar of self-publishing success in the digital age. Book one, 'Wake', was released in August 2012. Amanda Hocking is the USA Today bestselling author of the Trylle trilogy and six additional self-published novels. It concerns her new young-adult paranormal series called 'Watersong'. In March 2011, Hocking signed her first conventional publishing contract for four books, at a price of two million dollars, with St. 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'. Hocking's published work, originally self-published, consists of My Blood Approves, a vampire romance series the Trylle Trilogy, which covers a teenage girl's journey of self-discovery in an urban fantasy setting and Hollowland, a zombie novel. In early 2011, Hocking averaged 9,000 book sales each day. By March 2011, she had sold over a million copies of her nine books and earned two million dollars from sales, previously unheard of for self-published authors.

In April 2010, she began self-publishing them as e-books. Employed as a group home worker until 2010, she wrote 17 novels in her free time. Amanda Hocking (born July 12, 1984) is an American writer of paranormal romance young-adult fiction.

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