Amanda Hocking Self Publishing Success!

Do you know who Amanda Hocking is?  Well, if you’ve ever had any interest in making money online self-publishing ebooks on Amazon, then you should learn who Amanda Hocking is.  Hint:  She makes 7-figures online selling her Paranormal ebooks on Amazon…and the great part is…she’s only 27 years old!

In April 2010, Amanda Hocking began self-publishing e-books.  By March 2011, she had sold over a million copies of her nine books and earned two million dollars from sales, previously unheard of for self-published authors.  In early 2011, Hocking averaged 9,000 book sales each day.

Here’s a Summary of Amanda’s Amazing “Self-Publishing” Journey:

• Amanda Hocking wrote her first novel when she was 17, right after graduating high school; she assumed that once she wrote a book she would instantly be rich and famous!
• Amanda Hocking spent the next few years researching the publishing world and how to get her book published;
• She went to college, but dropped out twice because the only classes she liked were Writing and English;
• Friends and family kept telling her she had a “natural talent” and that she didn’t need a degree; after a while she finally believed them.
• Amanda Hocking spent years trying to get her book published and was rejected by many Literary Agents;
• In 2008, she made the decision and commitment that she was going to get published no matter what!
• She wrote her first Vampire Novel after seeing 700 vampire books in Walmart; it only took her 15 days to write it.
• Then she decided there were too many vampire books out there, so she started writing “Paranormal Romance”;
• Somebody told her about a writer that didn’t have a publisher and self-published online and was in the top 100 ebooks on Kindle; so she decided to give self-publishing a shot!
• The whole time Amanda was writing and trying to get published she held down a full time job working with people with disabilities;
• In 2010 she published her first book to Kindle which was “My Blood Approves”; then a week or so later she published a second book in the series called “Fate”.
• She sold 45 books in 2 weeks on Kindle;
• She published another book, “Flutter” 2 months later and sold 38 copies in one day!
• In May 2010 she sold 624 books and made $362!
• Then she discovered “BOOK BLOGGERS” — People who read books and blog about them in reviews.  Amanda had no idea these people existed and in her words they are “heroes!”
• She asked several ‘BOOK BLOGGERS” to read and review her books and that’s when the Magic started happening!
• In June 2010 she sold 4,258 copies of her books and made $3,180!
• In July 2010 she turned 26 years old!
• In her birthday month she sold 3,532 books and made $6527!
• By August, she had sold 10,000 copies of her books and was getting inquiries from agents and publishers;
• One of her books made it to #25 in the Amazon Best Seller’s Paid List!  In one 24-hour period Amanda made $1200…more than she made in an entire month at her day job (which she did end up leaving).
• Within a short period of time, Amanda had 9 self-published books and was selling 100,000 copies of those ebooks per month via Amazon’s Kindle!
• In January 2011, it was reported by USA Today that her sales had exceeded $450,000 for the month!
• Amanda Hocking accepted a $2,000,000 Million Dollar offer from a traditional publisher (St. Martin’s Press) to publish four new novels.

When asked about her publishing deal with St. Martin’s Press, Amanda Hocking said in an interview:

“As for the timing, I was waiting for a point where I had enough of a name for myself that I could get leverage to do the kind of deal I wanted. What I mean by that is that I wanted to be “big enough,” I guess, that a publishing house would pull out all the stops and give my book all the promotion, packaging, and editing that writers dream of their books getting.”

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Resources:

NY Times article:  http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/self-publisher-signs-four-book-deal-with-macmillan/

Amanda’s blog:  http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/

Amanda’s story:  http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/2010/08/epic-tale-of-how-it-all-happened.html