Booked & Busy w/ Special Guest Alex Aster
Booked & Busy w/ Special Guest Alex Aster  
Podcast: Booked & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton
Published On: Mon Dec 08 2025
Description: Alex Aster is officially... Booked & Busy 📚✨Welcome back to another episode of Booked & Busy, and today's a major one! We're welcoming our very first guest author, Alex Aster. In this episode, we deep dive into her viral fantasy series (Lightlark), her New York City rom-com Summer in the City, how BookTok changed everything, and what it's actually like to write four books in a year!We talk fast-paced fantasy world building, romance tropes, and the reader-favorite Team Grim vs Team Oro debate. Alex also spills on all things Crowntide, the newest installation in the Lightlark series - plus her new adult romantasy book (Starside) and exciting updates on the Lightlark and Summer in the City film adaptations currently in development!"This or Thats," writing confessions, rapid-fire questions, and a peek into Alex's real everyday life... all of this and more, in this week's episode of Booked & Busy! Crowntide is now available online or in stores, with Starside hitting the shelves on March 24th, 2026!Join the Booked & Busy Patreon (it's free!): patreon.com/cw/OliviaPonton❤︎ Join The Conversation→ Patreon (it's free!): https://www.patreon.com/cw/OliviaPonton→ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/olivia.ponton→ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iamoliviaponton→ Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/olivia_ponton12