Amanda Hocking (born July 12, 1984)[1] is an American writer of paranormal romance young adult fiction.
[3] Hocking left her employment as a group home worker and started self-publishing her novels as e-books in April 2010, at the age of 25.
[5] Hocking'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[3] in an urban fantasy setting; and Hollowland, a zombie novel.
In March 2011, Hocking signed her first conventional publishing contract for four books, for two million dollars, with St. Martin's Press, [6] for her young-adult paranormal series Watersong.
In 2015, Hocking announced she had signed a new three-book deal with St. Martin's and revealed that the books would be a standalone and a duology, respectively.