Her 6-Figure Book Deal Via TikTok

Check out this 14-second TikTok video from March of last year.

26-year-old Alex Aster posted that quick video describing the plot of a book she was thinking to write called Lightlark. She didn’t have a huge following on TikTok at the time, but within a day her video had racked up more than a million views 🚀

The Guardian reports…

A week later, Lightlark had gone to auction and she had a six-figure deal with Amulet Books. Last month, Universal preemptively bought the film rights for, in her words, “more zeros than I’ve seen in my life”.

The book has gone on to become a bestseller and apparently there’s a movie adaptation in the works 🤑

Unfortunately, Alex thinks her TikTok success is tough to replicate…

TikTok is not, she says, “something that anyone can game”. “People see what has happened to me. And they’re like: ‘Oh, I can just make a video and get a six-figure deal.’ I wish it was like that. I wish it had been that easy”

One thing you can take away from this though, is to put your ideas out there. One might just catch fire and change your life.