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Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Alex Aster’s YA novel Lightlark was rejected by 16 publishers – until she posted it on TikTok. Then she got hundreds of thousands of likes, a six-figure publishing contract, a plethora of glowing reviews, and praise from the legacy media… until the book actually came out. To make things worse, she may not have been downtrodden enough. Now, vastly superi…

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0:00.0	Okay, so Jesse, have you ever heard of Alex Astor?
0:04.3	I mean, Astor is a famous last name.
0:06.2	I don't believe I've heard of Alex Astor.
0:08.3	Alex Astor is a 27 year old author.
0:11.0	She's published two middle grades books
0:13.3	before the one that we're going to talk about today.
0:15.1	She has 900,000 followers on TikTok,
0:18.6	and that's how she got her book, yeah, I know.
0:21.4	That's how she got her book deal.
0:22.8	She promoted the storyline in various TikTok videos.
0:26.0	And in fact, in one of the videos,
0:27.9	she says that her agent dropped her
0:29.8	and this book that just came out
0:31.7	was rejected by 16 publishers,
0:34.0	but because she pitched the book on TikTok
0:36.5	and had tons of followers, this went viral
0:39.1	and she got a publisher, a seven figure book deal,
0:42.2	and the book is being made into a movie.
0:44.9	And this is before it ever came out.
0:46.6	Is that all that?
0:48.3	Is that good or bad, do you think?
0:50.2	I would like this to happen to me.
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