Amanda Hocking: The 27-year-old American from the Midwestern state of Minnesota has become something of a legend among independent authors.
The writer of young adult paranormal romances wrote her first novel when she was 17 but couldn’t get any of her books published via the traditional route. Around March 2010, she decided to raise money for a trip by selling one of her novels as an e-book and used Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing service to upload My Blood Approves, a story about a girl who falls in love with two vampire brothers.
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