Have you ever gone to a book festival? (1 Viewer)

NogaNono · 23 March 2019

I’m going to one tomorrow and I’m really excited. For those of you who went to one, do you have any advice/tips?

perhapz · 23 March 2019

I never had the chance. :< But I'm curious about it and I hope to go someday! Tell us how was it after you come back.

NogaNono · 24 March 2019

perhapz said:
I never had the chance. :< But I'm curious about it and I hope to go someday! Tell us how was it after you come back.

I'm here to report back @perhapz. As expected book festivals are super fun! Basically, in the one I went to, they had a bunch of authors who had similar book topics (i.e. Love, Mystery, Mental Health, etc.) and they put them together in 40 minute panels where they discussed the topics and also answered fan questions. I got to go to 3 of them. If you're curious what they were:

The first one I went to was about Self Love featuring authors Ellen Hagan, Julie Murphy, Renée Watson, and Alicia D. Williams. The second one was about Suspense/Mystery featuring authors Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Brittany Cavallaro, and Karen M. McManus. The third was about World Building featuring Dhonielle Clayton, Somaiya Daud, Stephanie Garber, Alex London, Tehlor Kay Mejia, and Lilliam Rivera. All super interesting.

Then after the panels near the end of the day, I bought like 3 books and got them signed. There was also a lot of booths where you could get free stuff and places where they sold food. It was really really fun and I highly recommend going to one if you ever get the chance.

perhapz · 25 March 2019

NogaNono said:
I'm here to report back @perhapz. As expected book festivals are super fun! Basically, in the one I went to, they had a bunch of authors who had similar book topics (i.e. Love, Mystery, Mental Health, etc.) and they put them together in 40 minute panels where they discussed the topics and also answered fan questions. I got to go to 3 of them. If you're curious what they were:

The first one I went to was about Self Love featuring authors Ellen Hagan, Julie Murphy, Renée Watson, and Alicia D. Williams. The second one was about Suspense/Mystery featuring authors Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Brittany Cavallaro, and Karen M. McManus. The third was about World Building featuring Dhonielle Clayton, Somaiya Daud, Stephanie Garber, Alex London, Tehlor Kay Mejia, and Lilliam Rivera. All super interesting.

Then after the panels near the end of the day, I bought like 3 books and got them signed. There was also a lot of booths where you could get free stuff and places where they sold food. It was really really fun and I highly recommend going to one if you ever get the chance.

Oh, that's sounds very fun. I went to some anime/manga conventions in the past, and going to a books-related one would be a new for me. I hope I can go to one in the future. :>
Btw, which books did you buy?

NogaNono · 25 March 2019

perhapz said:
Oh, that's sounds very fun. I went to some anime/manga conventions in the past, and going to a books-related one would be a new for me. I hope I can go to one in the future. :>
Btw, which books did you buy?

I'm the opposite, I haven't gone to any anime or manga conventions at all, but I would like to. I feel like ti would be fun. I think this was actually the first convention type thing I've gone too and it was super fun. The books I bought were:

Children of Blood and Bone (the cover was super pretty and I heard a lot of people say it was good)
One of Us Is Lying (haven't read this one yet either, but my book club all seem to have read it and told me it was really great, so I got it)
and The School For Good and Evil (I read it when I was in Middle School so I bought it physically).