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Amanda Hocking's AMAZING TALE of self-publishing
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papa stas
 04 Feb 2012, 10:09 #141123 Reply To Post
Hocking started e-booking her pulp, genre mixing novels / novellas the past few years. After being turned down over and over by the industry system. No American publishing giant or mini would touch her.

Couldn't get an agent...rejection letters took down too many trees. Etc.

She quit writing for awhile, because she caved in and believed everyone telling her she wouldn't make it; was no good. More etc.

Without an agent or success...she got back on the writing horse.

Rode it right to the audience...global...by way of e-book.

No publisher; no agent; no system acceptance.

Just from the audience.

Started selling e-books on line. Making close to; maybe over a million before the publishing industry finally realized they'd been wrong about her. All along. Why?

Not because she wasn't talented.
But because...she simply wasn't doing it their way.

She wasn't accepted into -- THEIR -- system. Wasn't doing it the way everyone is supposed to do it, if you want to be in that system and be successful. THEIR way.

http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/2010/08/epic-tale-of-how-it-all-happened.html
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” - Albert Einstein
pam1234writing
 04 Feb 2012, 13:36 #141140 Reply To Post
Quote: papa stas, Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 10:09
Hocking started e-booking her pulp, genre mixing novels / novellas the past few years. After being turned down over and over by the industry system. No American publishing giant or mini would touch her.

Couldn't get an agent...rejection letters took down too many trees. Etc.

She quit writing for awhile, because she caved in and believed everyone telling her she wouldn't make it; was no good. More etc.

Without an agent or success...she got back on the writing horse.

Rode it right to the audience...global...by way of e-book.

No publisher; no agent; no system acceptance.

Just from the audience.

Started selling e-books on line. Making close to; maybe over a million before the publishing industry finally realized they'd been wrong about her. All along. Why?

Not because she wasn't talented.
But because...she simply wasn't doing it their way.

She wasn't accepted into -- THEIR -- system. Wasn't doing it the way everyone is supposed to do it, if you want to be in that system and be successful. THEIR way.

http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/2010/08/epic-tale-of-how-it-all-happened.html


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