Amanda Hocking

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Amanda Hocking
Born July 12, 1984
Occupation Author
Genre Young-adult fiction
Subject Paranormal romance
Notable works Watersong series, Trylle Trilogy
Website
amandahocking.blogspot.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

  • My Blood Approves series:
    • My Blood Approves (March 27, 2010)
    • Fate (April 15, 2010)
    • Flutter (May 25, 2010)
    • Wisdom (August 22, 2010)
      • Letters to Elise: A Peter Townsend Novella (December 19, 2010)
    • Swear (TBA)
  • Trylle Trilogy
    • Switched (self published 2010, with St. Martin's January 24, 2012)[9]
    • Torn (self published 2010, with St. Martin's February 28, 2012)
    • Ascend (self published 2011, with St. Martin's April 24, 2012)
  • The Hollows series:
    • Hollowland (October 5, 2010)
    • Hollowmen (November 8, 2011)
  • Virtue (May 27, 2011)
  • Watersong series
    • Forgotten Lyrics (October 30, 2012)
    • Wake (August 7. 2012)
    • Lullaby (November 27, 2012)
    • Tidal (June 4, 2013)
    • Elegy (August 6, 2013)
  • The Kanin Chronicles
    • Frostfire (January 2015)
    • Ice Kissed (May 2015)
    • Crystal Kingdom (August 2015)

Adaptations

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

References

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