![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In March 2011, Hocking signed her first conventional publishing contract for four books, for 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 first nine books and earned two million dollars from sales, previously unheard of for self-published authors. In April 2010, she began self-publishing her novels as e-books. She's since published over twenty novels, several of which made the New York Times Bestseller list. Hocking left her employment as a group home worker and started self-publishing in 2010, at the age of 25. While employed as a group home worker, she wrote 17 novels in her free time. After high school, she studied Human Services while working in a group home for people with disabilities. Hocking was born and raised in Austin, Minnesota. Amanda Hocking (born July 12, 1984) is an American writer of paranormal romance young adult fiction. ![]()
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