‘A Million Lives’ shattered: This fantasy ball was just dubbed the Fyre Festival of BookTok—and authors are furious

On TikTok, videos of the Baltimore book event show a huge empty room with rows of plain tables. ‘I planned my pregnancy around this,’ one author said. A book festival took place over the weekend in Baltimore, but even if you’re local, you likely didn’t hear about it until after the fact. The event, called A Millions Lives Book Festival, is now trending on social media, but for all the wrong reasons—it’s being called “the Fyre Festival of book festivals,” if that’s any indication of just how disappointing it seems to have been.A Million Lives, organized by author Grace Willows and Archer Management company, came to Baltimore’s Convention Center on May 2 and 3. While the event was allegedly described to authors as an extravagant fantasy-themed ball where they could promote their books to hundreds to thousands of attendees, videos on TikTok and Threads suggest that barely a handful of attendees showed up, and there hardly appeared to have been any setup done in terms of decor. Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2025-05-05 20:30:00 UTC ]

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