Amanda Hocking

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Amanda Hocking
Born (1984-07-12) July 12, 1984 (age 41)
Austin, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation Author
Genre Young adult fiction
Paranormal romance
Notable worksWatersong series, Trylle Trilogy
Website
hockingbooks.com

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

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Early life

Hocking was born and raised in Austin, Minnesota. After high school, she studied human services while working in a group home for people with disabilities.

Career

While employed as a group home worker, she wrote 17 novels in her free time. [3] Hocking left her employment as a group home worker and started self-publishing her novels as e-books in April 2010, at the age of 25. [1] By March 2011, she had sold more than a million copies of her first nine books and earned two million dollars from sales, previously unheard of for self-published authors. [4] In early 2011, Hocking averaged 9,000 book sales each day. [2] She's since published more than twenty novels, several of which have made The New York Times Best Seller list. [5]

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 [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, for two million dollars, with St. Martin's Press, [6] for her young-adult paranormal series 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 were 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 and set around a traveling circus in the 1980s, was published in January 2017, [8] while the duology to be based on valkyries of Norse mythology was set for a 2017 release. [9]

Bibliography

Adaptations

In February 2011, the Trylle Trilogy was optioned for a film, with Terri Tatchell writing the screenplay. [4] As of 2015 the rights have reverted to Hocking, with no prospects for future development. [14]

Personal life

Hocking lives in Rochester, Minnesota [15] with her husband and step-son.

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". The New York Times . Archived from the original on June 24, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 Mewes, Trey (November 13, 2010). "Romance from beyond the veil". Austin Daily Herald . Retrieved January 30, 2011.
  4. 1 2 Millar, Sarah (March 3, 2011). "How a failed author made $2 million from e-books". Toronto Star . Retrieved March 4, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Amanda Hocking". www.hockingbooks.com. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  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". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Freeks by Amanda Hocking". www.barnesandnoble.com. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Hocking inks 6-figure deal for 3 new books". Austin Daily Herald. April 22, 2015. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Amanda Hocking". www.hockingbooks.com. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  11. ↑ Oliver, Lauren (January 13, 2012). "The Relaunch of Amanda Hocking". The New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Amanda Hocking". www.hockingbooks.com. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  13. ↑ "Amanda Hocking". www.hockingbooks.com. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  14. ↑ "Amanda Hocking". www.hockingbooks.com. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  15. ↑ Greenfield, Jeremy (November 29, 2013). "Companies book profits from self-publishing". USA Today . Retrieved January 9, 2014.
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