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I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

Amanda Hocking

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Amanda Hocking
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: July 12
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I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?
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I paused outside your door to see if you were awake, and you clearly were, so I came in. You still can't just barge in. I crossed my arms over my chest. Would you like me to go back out and knock? Loki gestured to the doors behind him. Would that make you feel better?
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Don’t be a hero,” I told him sternly. “Protect yourself.
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I predict a long reign ahead of you. Years of being referred to as Your Majesty, Your Grace, Your Excellence, My Liege, My Queen, My Lovely.” “I don’t think that last one is a formal title,” I said. “It should be.
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I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as soon I as capable, I started writing. I filled notebooks and notebooks until I got my first computer when I was 11. It never really occurred to me that I would do anything else.
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He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
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I wanted to show you that it's not all cold and intimidating, Finn explained. I wanted you to see something warm and beautiful.
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You're not very good at being contemplative, Milo said. You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you.
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I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.
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I looked at him like he was an idiot, but he didn’t notice. Or maybe he got it so often, he thought that was how people looked at him.
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Wendy!” Finn shouted pulling me from my moment with Loki. “What are you doing? You’re married. And not to him.” “Nothing slips by you does it.” Loki asked.
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This is so weird. They're your brother and aunt. No, I understand. They're your family too. Rhys said. They loved you and raised you. That's what family is, right?
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I look at you because I can't look away.
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You expect me to believe that you're being held against your will? I raised a skeptical eyebrow. You're roaming around the castle freely. As are you. He turned away from me then. Not all prisons have bars. You should know that better than anyone, Princess.
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