# #336 - Author Chat w/ Lyla Lee Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-and-boba-53035/336-author-chat-w-lyla-lee Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-and-boba-53035/336-author-chat-w-lyla-lee.md Podcast: [Books and Boba](https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-and-boba-53035) Published: 2025-11-25T01:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://booksandboba.captivate.fm/episode/336-author-chat-w-lyla-lee Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d4468438-ca7a-421b-add0-512760e83ec7.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/books-and-boba-53035/episodes/336-author-chat-w-lyla-lee Duration seconds: 3135 ## Resource On this episode, we chat with bestselling author Lyla Lee to chat about her new YA romance novel,  The Cuffing Game , a modern Korean American take on the timeless enemy-to-lovers tale Pride & Prejudice, remixed with the chaotic reality TV energy of Love Island about an aspiring student producer who reluctantly recruits her crush to participate in the college dating show she is producing. Lyla shares with us her journey to becoming an author of young, middle-grade, and young adult fiction, as well as all her inspirations for The Cuffing Game. Follow Lyla on Instagram at  @authorlylalee  and check out her newest novel  The Cuffing Game available now on the  Books & Boba bookshop ! Books & Boba is a podcast dedicated to reading and featuring books by Asian and Asian American authors Support the Books & Boba Podcast by: Joining our Patreon to receive exclusive perks Purchasing books at our bookshop Rocking our Books & Boba merch Follow our hosts: Reera Yoo ( @reeraboo ) Marvin Yueh ( @marvinyueh ) Follow us: Instagram Twitter Goodreads Facebook The Books & Boba November 2025 book club pick is  Taiwan Travelogue  by Shuang-zi Yang, translated by Lin King This podcast is part of  Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective Mentioned in this episode: Don't miss an all AAPI production of HENRY VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts at The Public in NYC The National Asian American Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of HENRY VI: A TRILOGY IN TWO PARTS brings an all-AANHPI cast to The Public Theater for a decades-spanning saga of Joan of Arc, warring dukes, and the bloody birth of the War of the Roses. Adapted by Stephen Brown-Fried, this is Shakespeare like you've never experienced it. Part 1: Foreign Wars opens with a k… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/books-and-boba-53035/episodes/336-author-chat-w-lyla-lee/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-and-boba-53035/336-author-chat-w-lyla-lee.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.