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Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.

Amanda Hocking

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Amanda Hocking
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: July 12
Novelist
Writer
Rochester
Minnesota
Aren
Seller
Easier
Sellers
Books
Traditionally
House
Publish
May
Authors
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Publishing
Book
Honesty
Self
Harder

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My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared to be “Crepe Paper in the Gymnasium,” and they had mastered it perfectly.
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Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.
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This is the way the world ends not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.
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It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it.
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Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever? The same thing you do when you don't have forever. He smiled wanly. Live.
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I know you’ll be a good Queen, a strong, noble leader, and that’s more than these people deserve,” she said. “But don’t give too much. You need to keep some of yourself for you. And listen to your heart.
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Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.
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What's your angle? I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. Isosceles, Jack quipped.
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This was good, except that now I had two crazed, burning zombies standing between me and the exit, plus another one that wasn’t on fire. I had not thought this plan through at all.
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Aurora is right,” Willa said, sounding sad to be agreeing with her.
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When I said it aloud, it sounded terribly creepy, which is why I had said it aloud.
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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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An oblique angle,” Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. “Ha! I told you I would work that in!
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