'How a failed author made $2 million from e-books'. ^ a b c Mewes, Trey (November 13, 2010).^ a b Saroyan, Strawberry (June 17, 2011).'Meet Mega Bestselling Indie Heroine Amanda Hocking'. Hocking lives in Rochester, Minnesota with her husband and step-son. As of 2015 the rights have reverted to Hocking, with no prospects for future development. In February 2011, the Trylle Trilogy was optioned for a film, with Terri Tatchell writing the screenplay.

From the Earth to the Shadows (March 27, 2018).Between the Blade and the Heart (January 2, 2018).Switched (self published 2010, with St.Letters to Elise: A Peter Townsend Novella (December 19, 2010).The standalone called Freeks set around a traveling circus in the 1980s, was published in January 2017, while the duology to be based on Norse Mythology about Valkyries is set for a 2017 release. Martin's and revealed that the books would be a standalone and a duology, respectively. In 2015 Hocking announced she had signed a new three-book deal with St. Martin's Press, and have been re-released from January–April 2012. All three books in her previously self-published Trylle Trilogy were also sold to St. Book one, Wake, was released in August 2012. It concerns her new young-adult paranormal series called Watersong. In March 2011, Hocking signed her first conventional publishing contract for four books, for two million dollars, with St. 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.' 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 in an urban fantasy setting and Hollowland, a zombie novel. In early 2011, Hocking averaged 9,000 book sales each day.

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. In April 2010, she began self-publishing her novels as e-books. She's since published over twenty novels, several of which made the New York Times Bestseller list. Hocking left her employment as a group home worker and started self-publishing in 2010, at the age of 25. While employed as a group home worker, she wrote 17 novels in her free time. After high school, she studied Human Services while working in a group home for people with disabilities. Hocking was born and raised in Austin, Minnesota. Amanda Hocking (born July 12, 1984) is an American writer of paranormal romance young adult fiction.

Lullaby by Amanda Hocking