«PCMag pointed out that
eBook author Amanda Hocking did just fine on her own using the Kindle store.
Not exact matches
Five Ideas for Using Twitter to Sell Your Books and
eBooks Author's promotions and platform building,
Amanda McArthur gives us some clues on letting Twitter help.
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Amanda: a choice of a free Custom
eBook or Print book Cover Design, or an
Author Branding Package
There has been a lot of media coverage surrounding
authors who take a less than traditional route to publication, such as
Amanda Hocking who inked a four book deal with St. Martin's Press following her unique success as a self - published
ebook author on Amazon.
Many voracious readers of genre fiction are moving online and turning to
ebooks, which is how bestselling paranormal romance
author Amanda Hocking and erotic writer E. L.James (Fifty Shades of Grey) got their starts.
But like the much heralded success of
authors Amanda Hocking and John Locke, both of whom have each sold more than one million copies of their self - published
ebooks before going on to sign contracts with major publishing houses, Wilkinson is open to the idea of traditional publishing and has already heard from some print publishers, although he admits he didn't set out to be an
author.
The prize includes your choice of a free
Author Branding Package or free Custom
Ebook or Print Cover (from
Amanda) AND your choice of either a free Copy Editing Package, a free
Ebook or Print Formatting Package, or a free Synopsis Writing Package (from Ann).
We know something is up when the top
ebook authors are missing from a library catalog:
Amanda Hocking, John Locke, and Louise Voss, all top
ebook authors are missing from my local library's catalog.»
Amanda Hocking continues to be the poster child of «indie
author makes good» and has landed major book deals from a major publisher due to the success of her
ebooks.
These same
authors were also the first to give rise to the ultimate success, both monetarily and stigma-wise, with names like
Amanda Hocking and Barbara Freethy posting inexpensive
ebooks that sated their readers» thirst for blood... make that, stories.
In internet - savvy circles [
Amanda Hocking] has been embraced as a figurehead of the digital publishing revolution that is seen as blowing up the traditional book world — or «legacy publishing» as its detractors call it — and replacing it with the
ebook, where direct contact between
author and reader, free of the mediation of agent and publishing house, is but a few clicks away.
Amanda Hocking and many other
authors price the first
ebook in a series substantially below the sequels, with prices of free to 99 cents common.
One lucky winner will get his or her choice of ONE specialty
ebook service from BOTH
Amanda and Ann (the AMs of AMDesign Studios — designers dedicated to
author services)!
THESE SELF - PUBLISHED
AUTHORS HAVE EACH SOLD MORE THAN 50,000
EBOOKS AS OF MARCH, 2012 Susan Alison Dani Amore Bella Andre Melody Anne Jake Barton Robert Bidinotto J Carson Black Cheryl Bolen Catherine Bybee Ruth Cardello Darcie Chan Mel Comley Blake Crouch Chris Culver David Dalglish Carol Davis Luce Saffina Desforges Mainak Dhar Mark Edwards & Louis Voss Ellen Fischer Penelope Fletcher Tina Folsom Marie Force Barbara Freethy Debora Geary Lee Goldberg Gemma Halliday Ruth Harris Liliana Hart Michael Hicks
Amanda Hocking Debra Holland Hugh Howey Nancy C. Johnson Ty Johnston Heather Killough - Walden Selena Kitt J.A. Konrath Laura Landon Eve Langlais Stephen Leather Victorine Lieske John Locke Terri Giuliano Long CJ Lyons H.P. Mallory KC May Bob Mayer Stephanie McAfee Courtney Milan Rick Murcer Scott Nicholson Anne Marie Novark Shayne Parkinson Rose Pressey Michael Prescott T.R. Ragan Terri Reid Adam Rendon Lexi Revellian Imogen Rose Nick Russell Michele Scott Tori Scott L.J. Sellers Michael J Sullivan Laura Taylor Michael Wallace Kerry Wilkinson Rachel Yu
Some writers start with a series of two - or three - word phrases that describe them, like this one from
Amanda Hocking, the paranormal romance young - adult fiction
author who sold more than $ 2 million in
ebooks in one year.