A Million Lives Festival is going viral on #BookTok for all the wrong reasons What was meant to be a dreamy #BookTok convention celebrating romantasy authors quickly unraveled into what attendees are calling the “Fyre Festival of the book world.” Readers and authors alike flocked to Baltimore last weekend, dressed in shimmering gowns and ready to be swept away by the A Million Lives Book Festival—a two-day “romantasy” convention promising panels, community, and a glamorous ball. Instead, attendees walked into a nearly empty convention center with plain concrete floors, harsh lighting, and hardly any decoration in sight. The so-called “ballroom” looked more like a storage unit than the enchanted evening attendees paid for. One viral TikTok with over 3.5M views and 270K likes showed excited guests running down a hallway in ballgowns—only to cut to an empty hall with a few sad tables and fake rose petals. The video was captioned, “When you’re going to a bookish fantasy themed ball…and this is what you get.” The disappoint exploded across #BookTok...
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