6/30/2023 0 Comments HollowlandMartin’s Press.Īmanda Hocking’s story has been told in the New York Times, the Wall Street journal, and on dozens if not hundreds of blogs, but one key question is seldom directly addressed: are her books any good? I just finished my first Hocking novel, and the short answer is, yes, it was lively, original, and I liked it a lot. She thought $43 for her first two weeks of sales was “pretty good.” By the start of this year, she was selling half a million eb00ks a month, and in March she signed a reported $2 million dollar contract with St. One year ago this month, after a string of rejections from agents and editors, Hocking uploaded two novels in Kindle format. If you are a writer, unless you’ve been living with wolves, chances are you have heard of Amanda Hocking, the twenty-something Minnesota author of young adult fantasies who spun the publishing industry in an unexpected direction.
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