Within weeks, “Lightlark” had been purchased as part of a two-book deal by Amulet Books, the YA and middle-grade imprint of Abrams Books. I had thousands of comments and people were so excited about it.” “The next morning I was in a parking lot and I decided to just check TikTok,” she says. “I was like, ‘Oh, shoot, I’m proving publishing right. “And within five hours, it had no views – like, no views,” Aster says. She uploaded the video on March 13, 2021, and waited. To survive, Isla Crown must lie, cheat, betray even as love complicates everything.” “Each realm’s curse is deadly and to break them one of the six rulers must die. “Would you read a book about a cursed island that only appears once every hundred years to host a game that gives the six rulers of realm a chance to break their curses,” she asked viewers of what’s known as BookTok, the corner of the social media app where book lovers congregate. In just 15 seconds of text over a slideshow of photographs, Aster made her case for “Lightlark.”
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