Have you read my latest e-book?

Elizabeth Rowan Keith has launched a career as a full-time e-book writer and publisher. Working from her home in White, she now has eight titles online. Photo by Ken Curley/Register

• Local writers forgo paper-and-ink to gain a foothold on the ‘Net

BROOKINGS – Amanda Hocking gives hope to would-be novelists.

The now 28-year-old from Austin, Minn., is a millionaire, thanks to the novels of vampire romance she sold on the Internet at prices ranging from 99 cents to $2.99.

Somehow, the young group-home worker and spare-time writer caught lightning in a bottle.



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