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Sunday, March 18, 2018
Amanda Hocking: self-publishing success story
One of the first superstars of the Kindle/Apple e-book era, author Amanda Hocking talks about how she started and where it led in this clip. She started writing vampire-type love stories, as I recall, and put in the work to both write the books, and to promote and self-publish them. She got so successful, that traditional publishers started coming to her with offers.
I've been writing since my late teens, and have self-published 40 or so zines, written for BMX magazines, a newsletter, and typed up thousands of blog posts. But publishing a "real" book has eluded me. My artwork is bringing in money these days, but I'm more of a writer, and hopefully I can make a real book happen in the next year or so. Amanda did it. So have many others. Knowing it's possible with today's technology helps.
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