Penn, Lexi and Thea are strangers in town for the summer-and they've been watching her. But Gemma doesn't know that her ordinary life is about to change forever. He's always been just a friend, but this summer they've taken their relationship to the next level, and now she's falling harder for him every day. Gemma Fisher seems to have it all-she's carefree, pretty, and falling in love with Alex, the boy next door. Wake is awesome!' – Books with BiteĮnter the world of Amanda Hocking's Watersong, a place of breathtaking beauty, immortal power-and terrifying secrets. Martin's February 28, 2012)Īscend (self published 2011, with St.'An amazing, enthralling story. Trylle Trilogy Switched (self published 2010, with St. Wisdom (August 22, 2010) Letters to Elise: A Peter Townsend Novella (December 19, 2010)

My Blood Approves series: My Blood Approves (March 27, 2010) The standalone called 'Freeks' set around a travelling circus in the 1980's will debut in 2016, while the duology to be based on Norse Mythology about Valkyries is set for a 2017 release. Martin's and revealed that the books would be a standalone and a duology, respectively. In 2015 Hocking announced she had signed a new three book deal with St. Martin's Press, and have been re-released from January–April 2012. All three books in her previously self-published Trylle Trilogy were also sold to St. Book one, Wake, was released in August 2012. It concerns her new young-adult paranormal series called Watersong. In March 2011, Hocking signed her first conventional publishing contract for four books, at a price of two million dollars, with St. The New York Times characterized her novels as 'part quirky girl-like-Hocking characters, part breakneck pacing, part Hollywood-style action and part bodice-ripping romance – they are literature as candy, a mash-up of creativity and commerce.' In early 2011, Hocking averaged 9,000 book sales each day.Īmanda's published work, originally self-published, consists of My Blood Approves, a vampire romance series the Trylle Trilogy, which covers a teenage girl's journey of self-discovery in an urban fantasy setting and Hollowland, a zombie novel.

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 April 2010, she began self-publishing them as e-books. Employed as a group home worker until 2010, she wrote 17 novels in her free time. Notable works Watersong series, Trylle TrilogyĪmanda Hocking lives in Rochester, Minnesota.

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