Would I find it an enjoyable, absorbing read as so many of Hocking’s fans have before me? So when I spotted this volume on the shelves, I couldn’t resist. Martin’s Press to publish her Trylle trilogy and the new Watersong series, after having sold well over a million books and earned over two million dollars in book sales. By the following January, she was selling 100,000 plus a month and eventually signed up with St. She brought out her three series in quick succession on Amazon’s Kindle and by August was able to quit her day job. Just in case you were sojourning somewhere on the Moon, or have a memory like mine – Amanda Hocking is the twenty-something who, on finding it impossible to get her work accepted by an agent or publisher, decided in April 2010 to start to self-publish her seventeen books. If you are remotely interested in e-publishing or Fantasy fiction and haven’t heard of Amanda Hocking, then you clearly were off-planet for the duration of the media fuss.
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