Romantasy festival A Million Lives promised a 'Lavender Romance Ball' in addition to a vendor space, content creation room and cosplay meetups Courtesy of Sarah Zane Romantasy authors and readers ...

Instead of the 600 attendees authors were promised, there were 50 to 60, Shoemaker said. And it only got worse. Stories about the failed "A Million Lives Book Festival" have made national ...

Dozens of authors and book lovers poured into Baltimore this weekend dressed in glittering gowns, ready for a romance-fantasy book convention that promised a formal “fantasy ball.” Instead ...

What was promoted as an immersive gathering of hundreds of book lovers, dozens of authors and publishers, and themed entertainment quickly devolved into what is being dubbed the “Fyre Festival ...

TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager shares highlights from the first official Read with Jenna Book Festival in Nashville, Tennessee, where readers from across the country gathered for a weekend connecting with ...