Self-publishing 27-Year Old Makes $4 Million
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 03:57PM 
Author Amanda Hocking is pretty much a normal 27-year-old. She lives with her best friend in Austin, Minnesota, where she grew up and likes to hang out with her mom and stepdad. She has a soft spot for John Hughes movies and plays guitar for a band called the Fraggin Aardvarks. She wasn't able to attend college and instead, after high school, worked as an attendant at a group home for the severely disabled, earning $12,000 a year.
The big difference is that, in the past two years, Hocking has become a shooting star of the e-publishing world and managed to earn herself $4 million dollars in the process. "Switched," number one of Hocking's "Trylle Trilogy," is the first of her novels to be released by a publishing house (St. Martin's snapped her up with a $2 million dollar contract last year) and came out this week with an initial print run of 250,000. The trilogy has already sold a million copies in e-book format.
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