{"id":52454,"date":"2023-11-09T00:49:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/viral-tiktok-author-alex-aster-talks-about-her-new-book-and-her-movie-franchise-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T00:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:49:41","slug":"viral-tiktok-author-alex-aster-talks-about-her-new-book-and-her-movie-franchise-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/viral-tiktok-author-alex-aster-talks-about-her-new-book-and-her-movie-franchise-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral TikTok Author Alex Aster talks about her new book and her movie franchise deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Viral TikTok Author Alex Aster on New Book Nightbane: \u2018People Might Be a Little Bit Upset at Me\u2019 (Exclusive) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lZyp9iaNou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/lZyp9iaNou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 People (@people) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/people\/status\/1721908464614592687?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After facing countless rejections for her young adult fantasy novel Lightlark, Alex Aster became a #1 bestselling author after turning to an unlikely medium: TikTok.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cI posted the video to social media basically pitching my book to the world, because I truly felt at that point I had nothing to lose,\u201d she tells PEOPLE. \u201cI almost deleted it because I was like, \u2018Oh my gosh, I&#8217;m proving these publishers right. No one wants to read my book.\u2019 But I luckily left it on, and then the next day it went viral.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Aster, 28, didn\u2019t expect Lightlark&#8217;s success when she shared that initial TikTok, which detailed the book&#8217;s premise. Soon after, she received a publishing contract and movie deal from Universal Studios and the producers of Twilight. Upon its release, the book, which tells the story of a deadly competition in the vein of The Hunger Games, became a #1 New York Times bestseller.<\/p>\n<p><b>Aster grew up in a family of entrepreneurs. Her parents co-own the Jacksonville, Fla., car dealership Keith Pierson Toyota, and her twin sister, Daniela, co-founded the mental fitness platform Wondermind with Selena Gomez<\/b>. Aster, however, has always known that writing was her passion. She began querying agents at age 12, and skipped her college graduation to sign with an agent. Though Aster was already a published author, having released her middle grade Emblem Island series through Sourcebooks Young Read<\/p>\n<p>If you wanna know more about this weirdo, watch this:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1699513200%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262100659%26%26%26youtube%26epib1H5Su-U%3Aa5b66248df4b8656fa1ede48c6648f29673424aa&amp;source=youtube&amp;vid=epib1H5Su-U&amp;moduleid=2100659&amp;preview=&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;noads=\" width=\"516\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2100659\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/people\/status\/1721908464614592687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">src<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=epib1H5Su-U&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">src<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Are you happy that this book is getting a film adaptation? Did you like it?<\/i><br type=\"_moz\"\/> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/127195012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viral TikTok Author Alex Aster on New Book Nightbane: \u2018People Might Be a Little Bit Upset at Me\u2019 (Exclusive) https:\/\/t.co\/lZyp9iaNou \u2014 People (@people) November 7, 2023 After facing countless rejections for her young adult fantasy novel Lightlark, Alex Aster became a #1 bestselling author after turning to an unlikely medium: TikTok. \u201cI posted the video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}