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 […]
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 […]
Celebrate Our Birthdays with a Giveaway for You! It’s Gemini Season, and it is also Christy’s Birthday today and my birthday was 12 days ago so we decided to throw y’all a party with gifts! A little image slideshow of Kelly & Christy through the years for funsies! Mostly us […]
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 […]
Feature: Head to WonderCon 2023 It’s that time again: WonderCon! I make an annual trek to Anaheim to attend SDCC’s sister con because I definitely need another reason to visit Disneyland across the street (jk, I love this con AND its proximity to Disney!). WonderCon features 900+ exhibitors in a […]
#SBS June Monthly 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 4+ years, we are transitioning to this format as a way to share signed books and talk about bookish (and personal) […]
Event Recap: FanX Denver One of the first things I did in coming to Colorado was to look for local events. Cons, concerts, etc. Imagine my joy when I learned that Fan Expo, a popular fan convention, was scheduled the week after we moved here! FanX, as it’s referred to, […]
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 […]
Feature: Bay Area Book Events Calendar Part of living in the Bay Area is having the opportunity to attend a plethora of book events, YA and otherwise! There’s nothing worse than finding out your favorite author was here two days ago. The disappointment! We decided to capture all the YA […]
It’s year 4 of Silicon Valley Comic Con, the annual science, tech, and pop culture convention nestled in downtown San Jose. I’ve had the privilege of attending all four years and each year promises to be bigger and better. Check out some highlights below! Thank you to the SVCC team […]