![]() ![]() "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. ![]()
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