All of a sudden Hoptor had a lot more to worry about than how to silence the unrelenting nagging of Aphrodisia, the beautiful, strident prostitute he had promised to marry in a moment of weakness. Now things were really about to go south. Conax washed ashore just as Atlantis’s ruler was losing his health and his grip on the kingdom, creating chaos throughout the island. Who lost it? Where did it go? At last the truth is out-or at least the truth according to Hoptor the Vintner, respectable Atlantean wine merchant and not-so-respectable pimp.Īccording to Hoptor, the blame for Atlantis’s destruction can be placed squarely on the incredibly broad shoulders of Conax the Chimerical, a none-too-bright, broadsword-wielding barbarian chieftain. A courtesan for hire, a brainless hunk, and alien invaders combine to bring about ancient history’s most momentous catastrophe in John Jakes’s hilarious take on the fall of Atlantisįor centuries the mystery of the lost continent of Atlantis has intrigued mortals everywhere.
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I then worked as a senior editor with an educational publisher in Toronto before starting a family and a business as a freelance writer and editor in 1988. Paul American Indian Center, writing a book on how best to assist battered women in the Native American community. I’ve had quite a few jobs in my life, all of which involved writing and all of which made me a better writer.Īfter graduating from Brown University with a degree in English literature, I worked at the St. Art may be triggered by a moment of inspiration or epiphany, but it arises from a lifetime of observations, ideas, imagination, and skills honed by practice, practice, and more practice. The same is true of my visual art and poetry. My work is a result of everything I’ve ever experienced. People ask how long it took me to write Wolf Hollow or Beyond the Bright Sea. "I loved my job, but I really wasn't making very much money doing it," she says. In the daytime, she worked at a group home for disabled people. In her early 20s, she started to write novels at night. She went to a local community college for two semesters. Hocking has no formal training as a writer, which makes her story even more incredible. "My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves," she says. Even as a very young child, she was kind of a natural storyteller - especially when it came to fantasy stories - stories about dragons, unicorns, pirates and more. "We invented Spam," the 27-year-old novelist tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz. Amanda Hocking is the best-selling author of the Trylle trilogy and six additional self-published novels.īest-selling e-author Amanda Hocking grew up in the small town of Austin, Minn., which, she says, is known for Spam - as in the food, not the email kind. |