Here Be Vampires!

[Cynthia]

Late to the thread, I was sold when Frank Langella (as Dracula) danced with Kate Nilligan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5utx0_sCGg Big hands, moving slowly *grrr* though the version is FULL of cheese it will always be my favorite.

[Moonliner]

Wow. I have a new hero. Amanda Hocking. Author of what looks to be sappy pre-teen/teen vampire novels I wouldn't be caught dead reading.

Trylle Trilogy: Switched, Torn and Ascend among others.

She's totally self published via Kindle and nook. She has never had a publishing deal. She takes home around $2 per sale and currently sells 100,000+ copies per month.

Again, Wow.

[Betty]

I got a trojan warning from avast when I clicked on the author link.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Betty

I got a trojan warning from avast when I clicked on the author link.

Odd. I don't get that and the page looks fine. It must be the stealth army of the major publishing houses trying to suppress this!

Here is the text from the page:

Originally Posted by ThePage

The Very Rich Indie Writer

Meet Amanda Hocking. She’s been in the news for quite a bit now, and I’ve been meaning to write about her since January (or really, to write about the phenomenon she represents – and what it means for web fiction). But if you don’t already know of her, allow me:

Amanda Hocking is 26* years old. She has 9 self-published books to her name, and sells 100,000+ copies of those ebooks per month. She has never been traditionally published. This is her blog. And it’s no stretch to say – at $3 per book1/70% per sale for the Kindle store – that she makes a lot of money from her monthly book sales. (Perhaps more importantly: a publisher on the private Reading2.0 mailing list has said, to effect: there is no traditional publisher in the world right now that can offer Amanda Hocking terms that are better than what she’s currently getting, right now on the Kindle store, all on her own.)

And that is stunning news.