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Amanda Hocking, the 26-year-old Minnesota woman who published her YA paranormal romances to Kindle when she couldn’t get a traditional publishing deal and sold over a million copies on Kindle, got a $2 million four-book deal with St. Martin’s today–ironically the publisher that Eisler walked away from a $500,000 deal with a few weeks ago.
From earlier this week: If Self-Publishing is So Great, Why is Amanda Hocking Leaving It?
Posted in author-ity figures, books, publishing news, tagged amanda hocking, amanda hocking leaving self-publishing, barry eisler, barry eisler self publishing, books, ebooks, eisler ebooks, eisler st. martins, john rain books, publishing news, self-publishing, st. martins press on March 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Amanda Hocking, the darling of the self-publishing industry with over one million of her young adult paranormal ebooks sold, seems close to inking a deal with a traditional publisher.
From the New York Times Media Decoder blog:
Amanda Hocking, the darling of the self-publishing world, has been shopping a four-book series to major publishers, attracting bids of well over $1 million for world English rights, two publishing executives said.
Ms. Hocking has been held up as an example of an author who has shrewdly circumvented the established publishing industry, selling her novels through retailers like Amazon.com and BN.com and promoting them on her Facebook page and Twitter feed. Her books have landed on the USA Today best-seller list.
In Bizarro World news, this morning it was announced that thriller writer Barry Eisler rejected a $500,000 multi-book deal with St. Martin’s Press to try his hand at self-publishing.
