Amanda Hocking

Amanda Hocking (born July 12, 1984)[1] is an American writer of paranormal romance young adult fiction. 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. While employed as a group home worker, she wrote 17 novels in her free time. Hocking left her employment as a group home worker and started self-publishing in 2010, at the age of 25. She's since published over twenty novels, several of which made the New York Times Bestseller list. In April 2010, she began self-publishing her novels as e-books. By March 2011, she had sold over a million copies of her first 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.