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.

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