A rare person has not heard of a giddythe success of the queen of "electronic" samizdat - Amanda Hawking. Electronic books, which can only earn a living, as many authors believe, have brought her a millionth estate. The entire publishing world began talking about her. And not for nothing. Who is she? A symbol of the new world of readers and writers who have freed themselves from the mediation of the publishing house? Or a person who turned the traditional culture of book publishing?
Born Amanda Hawking on July 12, 1984 in Austin(state of Minnesota). As the author says, she always wrote. When she was very little, she told stories. As soon as I learned to hold the pen in my hands, I began to write. Filled the notebook for the notebook. But at 11 years she had the first computer, she began to "create" there. She did not even think that she could do anything else.
The writing skills, of course, Amanda received incollege. Took private lessons in English. Then she visited the workshop of writing skills in her city. For eight years she tried to publish her books. But in all publishers received a refusal. Everybody was told about self-publishing that it is impossible to make a living in this way. But somehow I heard that electronic books bring some money to some authors. Amanda Hawking decided to take a chance.
At the time, as she was about to publishher works, she had 12 books written. As Amanda says, in any case, there was nothing to lose. Does it matter where they are - on a computer or on a website, if they are not read? At that time she still worked full-time in a house for people with disabilities. To pay bills, she had to work hard. I wrote in my free time.
So it was until August 2010.In April, she placed her books on Amazon, priced from 1 to 5 dollars, and books began to be sold little by little. In August, Amanda Hawking is modest, she earned enough money to afford not to work and fully devote herself to literary creation. The number of copies sold in August was 185 thousand.
The first book she published was fromseries "The Call of Blood." Amanda remembers that before she published the novel, she looked at him fifty times. A man of twenty acquaintances read it, checking for any errors. It seemed that there simply could not be grammatical errors. Hired editors for this, but the readers continued to find missteps. Amanda is sure that the writer needs a professional editor who could remove imperceptible errors and "brush up books".
The first novels of Amanda from the series My Blood Approveswere published in electronic form by the writer herself. The cycle included novels: "Call of Blood", "Fate", "Thrill", "Wisdom" and the story "Letters to Elise." The world invented by Amanda is simple enough: there are people here and there are vampires who know how to love.
This series can quite competemany "vampire" cycles not only in the book world, but also in the cinema. Currently, the novel is preparing to go to the big screen, the adaptation is done by the famous scriptwriter Terry Tatchell. Books of this series Amanda sold for 200 thousand dollars. Rights for the next cycle were sold for 2 million dollars.
The trilogy "Trillet" is written in an unconstrained,simple language. Fans of fantasy, she will be interested. Each book of the series is a continuation of the previous one: "Foundling", "Throne", "Kingdom". The cycle presents to us in the first novel the main character, which was the founding of the people of the trill.
She goes to the kingdom of her people forIn order to learn more about yourself. Also gets absolutely in other world, in which there are own rules. But her young heart does not obey them. A wonderful series about love, friendship, devotion and betrayal.
Now Amanda has more than 100 novels andstories. Difficulties are left behind. Now she is a recognized reader and a successful author. Her books are presented not only in electronic form, but also in the traditional (printed) version. But the writer assures that electronic versions are sold much more successfully. In the first paper version, it was possible to sell only 2,000 copies per year, recalls Amanda Hawking.
The books have been translated into various languages.Amanda's work is not one literary agent. Novels disperse multimillion copies. At the time of the release of the "Trillet" series in Russian, she debuted at the top of the bestsellers. This rapid success of the young writer, who did not despair and continued to do her favorite thing.
The year 2010 for Amanda was marked by the fact thatunexpectedly for herself, she became a famous author. Several publishing houses offered cooperation. About her plans for the future, she says only that she plans to continue self-publishing. He believes that the initial goals exceeded all expectations. She has many projects, which she is working on at the moment.
Beginning authors Amanda Hawking gives advice -a lot to write, but even more to read. Be open to criticism. And most importantly - to believe in yourself, in your strength, do not be afraid of anything. The Internet is filled with information that not only helps to become a good writer, but also teaches you to weigh everything and take the first step to publishing.
