by Amanda Hocking
Hocking lives in Austin, Minnesota. Employed as an assisted living worker until 2010, she wrote 17 novels in her spare time. In April 2010, she began self-publishing them as e-books By March 2011, she had sold over a million copies of nine books and earned two million dollars from sales, something previously unheard of for self-published authors In early 2011, Hocking averaged 9,000 book sales each day. ...
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