Amanda Hocking

Amanda Hocking
Born July 12, 1984
Occupation Author
Genre Young adult fiction
Paranormal romance
Notable works Watersong series, Trylle Trilogy
Website
hockingbooks.com

Amanda Hocking (born July 12, 1984)[1] is an American writer of paranormal romance young adult fiction.[2]

Career

Hocking lives in Rochester, Minnesota.[3] Employed as a group home worker until 2010, she wrote 17 novels in her free time.[4] In April 2010, she began self-publishing them as e-books.[1] 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.[5] In early 2011, Hocking averaged 9,000 book sales each day.[2]

Work

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[4] in an urban fantasy setting; and Hollowland, a zombie novel.[4] 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.[6] It concerns her new young-adult paranormal series called Watersong. Book one, Wake, was released in August 2012.[7] All three books in her previously self-published Trylle Trilogy were also sold to St. Martin's Press, and have been re-released from January–April 2012. In 2015 Hocking announced she had signed a new three book deal with St. Martin's and revealed that the books would be a standalone and a duology, respectively. The standalone called 'Freeks' set around a travelling circus in the 1980s will debut in 2016, while the duology to be based on Norse Mythology about Valkyries is set for a 2017 release.[8]

Bibliography

Adaptations

In February 2011 the Trylle Trilogy was optioned for a film, with Terri Tatchell writing the screenplay.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Plank, Tonya (January 5, 2011). "Meet Mega Bestselling Indie Heroine Amanda Hocking". Huffington Post. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
  2. 1 2 Saroyan, Strawberry (June 17, 2011). "Storyseller". New York Times. Archived from the original on June 24, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  3. ↑ Greenfield, Jeremy (29 November 2013). "Companies book profits from self-publishing". USA Today. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 Mewes, Trey (November 13, 2010). "Romance from beyond the veil". Austin Daily Herald. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
  5. 1 2 Millar, Sarah (March 3, 2011). "How a failed author made $2 million from e-books". Toronto Star. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
  6. ↑ Rinzler, Alan (April 4, 2011). "Advice for Amanda Hocking from authors and agents". Forbes. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
  7. ↑ Bosman, Julie (March 24, 2011). "Self-Publisher Signs Four-Book Deal With St. Martin's". New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Hocking inks 6-figure deal for 3 new books". Austin Daily Herald. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  9. ↑ http://www.hockingbooks.com/swear-is-coming/
  10. ↑ Oliver, Lauren (January 13, 2012). "The Relaunch of Amanda Hocking". The New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
  11. ↑ http://www.hockingbooks.com/freeks-cover-reveal/

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