Thanks where it's due

I remember growing up, at the end of the night when there wasn't anything better to do, we'd ask each other who our heroes were. Eddie Vedder, Gandhi, heck I was an 80's child. But a year ago I met a new one.
I read about Amanda Hocking on a website somewhere, but no large American newspaper had done a story on her. It was like she didn't exist, as far as the U.S. media was concerned. Papers in Germany and the U.K. were writing all sorts of things about her, but as for us… barely a peep...