27-year-old novelist, Amanda Hocking, has become the darling of the self-publishing world when it was reported that she was making close to $10,000 a month on her self-published ebooks. Last fall Hocking sold her 1 millionth book for the Amazon Kindle, putting her in a class with only 11 other literary superstars including the likes of Nora Roberts, James Patterson and Steig Larsson. In a recent interview with NPR, Hocking discusses the dozens of novels she had written and the nearly 50 agent rejections she received before switching genres and writing (and self-publishing) paranormal romances. Last year she signed a multi-million dollar deal with St. Martin’s Press and her first book, Switched, is out now. Movie rights have already been snatched up and Hocking is on her way to literary stardom.
