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Amanda Hocking
Personal blog · amandahocking.blogspot.comwritingbusiness
Amanda Hocking's personal blog at amandahocking.blogspot.com covers writing and business. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as background on Amanda Hocking, an author who became successful through self-published ebooks. The comment cites her blog and her self-promotion through social networks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Where Amanda Hocking Used to Say Things But Now She Says Things at www.HockingBooks.com
What Hacker News says?
Amanda Hocking is probably the best example right now of an author who made it big through ebooks without having been published traditionally first. She does have a blog [1] and promotes herself quite heavily through social networks, but she's never had the support of a big publishing house that Konrath had. She's far from being an overnight success though - in an interview with the Huffington Post [2], she explains…
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on “ Time Investment”Submitted Amanda Hocking explains the difficulties/myths of self-publishing as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Epic Tale of How It All Happened : The Story of an Indie Book Writer as a story · 2 points
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