This was the enticing prompt for one of our recent writing competitions, launched when Circalit teamed up with American writer, Amanda Hocking. After selling over a million copies of her self-published books since 2010, Amanda Hocking is widely considered the exemplar of self-publishing success in the digital age. Naturally, we interviewed Amanda to find out how she did it. 

The competition received many powerful entries and we are pleased to announce the following four winners:

• My Twenty Killed a Kid – Bryan Costales (San Francisco, USA)
• Hells Lies – haleyk8 (Hawarden, UK)
• The Whitest Lie – Davo (London, UK)
• What if your entire world was built on a lie? - loopylou124 (Leicester, UK) 

We hope you enjoy your free copies of Torn from Amanda Hocking’s Trylle Trilogy, which are now being released in paperback for the first time.