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

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.