{"id":68,"date":"2012-03-05T02:54:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T02:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2012-03-05T02:58:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T02:58:29","slug":"amanda-hocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Hocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven\u2019t heard of Amanda Hocking, she is the self-publishing phenom, who at the age of 26, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/01\/08\/144804084\/a-self-published-authors-2-million-cinderella-story\">sold more than a million Kindle ebooks<\/a>.\u00a0 (As a 40-something author who\u2019s only sold a tiny fraction of that amount, I hate her.)<\/p>\n<p>To me, what makes her story even more compelling is that she ultimately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/25\/books\/amanda-hocking-sells-book-series-to-st-martins-press.html\">signed with a traditional publishing house<\/a>, foregoing potentially more money by continuing to self-publish.\u00a0 She cited that she didn\u2019t \u201c\u2026want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though I\u2019m sure I don\u2019t have as many writing-related demands as Ms. Hocking, I can completely identify.\u00a0 Since the release of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Alpha And The Omega<\/span>, I\u2019ve spent all my spare time updating this website, schmoozing local bookstore owners to feature my book, promoting my novel on message boards and blogs, creating and placing print and online ads, etc.\u00a0 And I\u2019ve been doing all this on top of my fulltime+ day job.<\/p>\n<p>I miss writing.<\/p>\n<p>And lately, my only opportunity to write is this blog.\u00a0 So thank you, dear reader, for giving me a respite from the necessary evil of marketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven\u2019t heard of Amanda Hocking, she is the self-publishing phenom, who at the age of 26, sold more than a million Kindle ebooks. (As a 40-something author who\u2019s only sold a tiny fraction of that amount, I hate her.)<\/p>\n<p>To me, what makes her story even more compelling is that she ultimately [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}