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Written by EmilyK. Posted on February 15, 2011. Filed under Author news. Tagged Amanda Hocking, e-books, facebook, paranormal YA, peroozal, self-published e-books, Self-Publishing, Social Networks, trolls, Twitter, vampires, young-adult paranormal novel, zombies. Bookmark the Permalink. Post a Comment. Leave a Trackback URL.

Have you heard of her? Young-adult paranormal author Amanda Hocking was fed up with traditional publishers and decided to surf the wave of digital publishing. She sold 164,000 books in 2010 – most were low-priced (99 cents to $2.99) digital downloads. The young author credits her success to aggressive self-promotion on her blog, Facebook and Twitter. It also doesn’t hurt that her books star trolls, vampires and zombies…

We’re incredibly impressed.

Authors catch fire with self-published e-books
By Carol Memmott (USA TODAY)

You may not know her name, but Amanda Hocking and others like her are riding the comet of digital publishing.

Fed up with attempts to find a traditional publisher for her young-adult paranormal novels, Hocking self-published last March and began selling her novels on online bookstores like Amazon and Barnesandnoble.com.

By May she was selling hundreds; by June, thousands. She sold 164,000 books in 2010. Most were low-priced (99 cents to $2.99) digital downloads.

More astounding: This January she sold more than 450,000 copies of her nine titles. More than 99% were e-books.

“I can’t really say that I would have been more successful if I’d gone with a traditional publisher,” says Hocking, 26, who lives in Austin, Minn. “But I know this is working really well for me.”

In fact, Hocking is selling so well that on Thursday, the three titles in her Trylle Trilogy (Switched, Torn and Ascend, the latest) will make their debuts in the top 50 of USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list…

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