SheKnows: What do you do in your spare time? Amanda Hocking:?I’m the guitarist in a band called the Fraggin’ Aardvarks, and even though it’s twice as cool as it sounds, we haven’t had a practice in ...

It's no wonder that Amanda Hocking, the 26-year-old "Kindle millionaire" who says she's sold almost a million electronic copies of her self-published paranormal romance books, earning her close to $2 ...

Best-selling e-author Amanda Hocking grew up in the small town of Austin, Minn., which, she says, is known for Spam — as in the food, not the email kind. "We invented Spam," the 27-year-old novelist ...

When Amanda Hocking, the 26-year-old poster girl for self-publishing, revealed her $2 million book contract with St. Martin’s Press, she defended the deal on her own blog to legions of fans and ...

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It felt a little strange waiting a full year before seeing her book in print. But for the first time, Minnesota author Amanda Hocking — seen by many as the queen of e-book publishing after she ...

Amanda Hocking first garnered attention in the book world when her self-published Trylle Trilogy became an e-book hit, selling millions of copies. Hoping to mirror that success—this time with a ...

St. Martin’s: 320 pp., $17.99, ages 12 and up Amanda Hocking is self-publishing’s poster child. The 27-year-old is the rare example of an author who has found amazing success through various e-book ...

“I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. Right now, being me is a full-time corporation.” That’s Amanda Hocking, the ...

There’s been a lot of talk lately about Amanda Hocking’s amazing journey from self-publishing to a multi-million dollar book deal with St. Martin’s Press. But Hocking’s success story — selling a ...