Hi! Iā€™m Lyla. I write cute and sometimes swoony books for all ages.

For information about the Mindy Kim Tour and my other events, please go here. To pre-order my books, scroll down below. For business inquiries and any other questions, please contact me through here. Thank you!

Lyla Lee author photo by Antony Huang

Author Photo by: Antony Huang Photography

Pre-order my 2025 releases below

The last Mindy Kim book Mindy 12 The Fun Family Vacation

For ages 6-9. The LAST Mindy Kim book! See here for tour information and pre-order signed and personalized copies here (domestic and international shipping available.)

For ages 8-12. The sequel to the Deidre Siobhan Flynn Bass Award for Best Middle Grade Book winner, Gigi Shin is Not a Nerd. Go here for more information.

For YA readers. My modern-day K-drama remix of Pride & Prejudice comes out this winter,, just in time for cuffing season. Pre-order here.

For adult readers. My adult romance debut is coming out on May 27th, just in time for Pride Month! Pre-order here.

See what Iā€™m up to on Instagram <3

This week, I&rsquo;m kicking off the &ldquo;Goodbye, Mindy&rdquo; tour with my stops on the West Coast! Please join me in celebrating five years of the Mindy Kim series if I&rsquo;m coming to a city near you. šŸ’– #mindykim #mindykimtour #mindykimseri
The upcoming &ldquo;Goodbye, Mindy!&rdquo; Tour wouldn&rsquo;t be possible without these amazing indie bookstores. šŸ’– Will I see you at one of my stops? Lmk in the comments below! šŸ„° #mindykim #mindykimseries #mindykimtour #indiebookstoreday
I have not one but FOUR books eligible for this 25% off B&amp;N sale &amp; I guarantee they&rsquo;re all cute and chaotic (although some are also swoony and steamy šŸ‘€). Please note Love in Focus is an adult romance. The Cuffing Game is YA but that d
Next Tuesday (4/29), I&rsquo;m celebrating the release of the last Mindy book, Mindy Kim and the Fun, Family Vacation (and kicking off the Goodbye, Mindy tour!) at @thirdplacebooks in Seattle, WA with my dear friend, @michellejingchan ! We have some
They&rsquo;re here! šŸ˜­šŸ’– Next week, I have not one but two books (the LAST Mindy Kim + sequel to Gigi Shin is Not a Nerd) coming out at the same time, and today, I got finished copies of them. I&rsquo;ll do a longer, more polished post later but I
What was meant to be a happy trip planned months in advance became nightmarish when I received news that my grandmother had been hospitalized, for the second time in the span of a month. Combine that with the fact that, due to publishing production s
For the first (and last šŸ„²) time ever, you can get MINDY signed and personalized through Books of Wonder. The best part? They ship both domestically and internationally so you can get your copy shipped wherever you are across the globe. Of course, I
New website! šŸ’• I&rsquo;ve had the same website design since 2018, when I got my first book deal. It was clunky and not the most aesthetically pleasing (I even had some people reach out to ask if I needed help with it šŸ˜†) but it got the job done &amp
The more books you write, the more people pirate your books and use them to train AI, I guess. šŸ«  TWELVE of my books. This is most of the books I&rsquo;ve written in my career. This is just despicable and depressing, y&rsquo;all. Many other authors h