Event Recap: YallWest 2024 We’ve been attending and blogging about YallWest for all 10 years of the festival and were thrilled to attend again this year! This annual pilgrimage to Santa Monica means not only connecting with authors but with fellow bookish people, publishers, and other book aficionados! It’s been […]
Feature: Kelly & Christy Take YallWest! Kelly and I missed YallWest last year – but not as much as we’ve missed each other. Our last engagement with YallWest was in 2020 with YallStayHome and we are SO ready to hang with our friends and authors later this month! We have […]
Event Recap & Feature: A Look back at 5 Years of YallWest & Looking Forward to YallStayHome Team BookCrushin has spent the last 5 years celebrating YA at the annual YallWest book festival, held in late spring in Santa Monica. This is a time when we see friends from around […]
Event Recap & Giveaway: YallWest 2019 YallWest 2019 was the best ever and I am anxiously counting down the days to 2020! This recap is 90% photos – I actually remembered to take a bunch this time! Check out the fun stuff I did and who I saw! Plus a […]
YallWest 2017 Event Recap, Tips for Book Festivals & Giveaway Please forgive me for my belated YallWest post! I had this written up since the 11th of May, but I was waiting on my post-event book mail to arrive to generate a giveaway, so the giveaway will be randomly selected […]
Book Recommendations: Pride 2024 Happy Pride my fellow book crushers! We take pride seriously, and we read queer all year! This isn’t a grab for views or likes, this is real life for us. Being queer is an act of joy and resistance. Being queer is revolutionary. And remember rights […]
Author Interview & Giveaway: Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas We are huge Aiden Thomas fans (I mean, who isn’t!?) so when we got to spend some time with Aiden at YallWest, we may have screamed a little (ok, a lot). I won’t spoil the convo but if you want to […]
BOOR: Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth is the upcoming coming-of-age YA romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author Olivia Blake (The Atlas Six), under a pen name for her YA audience. This one should be on your radar because this author is […]
#SBS April Wrap-Up Welcome to our monthly feature where we talk about what we read, adopted into our libraries, and what’s on our minds. After hosting #SignedBookSundays on instagram for 5+ years, we have transitioned to this format as a way to share signed books and talk about bookish (and personal) highlights. […]
Event Recap: 2023 in Events Everyone is sharing their Spotify Unwrapped but what about events unwrapped? Ok, this isn’t a thing but let’s pretend it is. For the first time since the pandemic, we both attended events and want to talk about them. Check out the highlights below – and […]