Amanda Hocking

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Amanda Hocking
Born (1984-07-12) July 12, 1984 (age 39)
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 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.

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