Friday, April 27, 2018

Book Fairs and Sales

I probably am procrastinating because I have a lot of non-writing related deadlines. I do have writing deadlines and some of which I've neglected though I feel the non-writing are more urgent and because it involves penalty and interest if I miss it. (That's an idea, penalizing if I miss my own writing deadlines but the pressure and stress I believe would be too much and I already have enough of those). I ended up focusing on the non-writing thing and missed my writing deadline including my current WIP. I started writing this post in the beginning of the month and now April is almost over. The good thing is the work is lighter now compared to other days. 

It's been a long time since I wrote a post other than blog tours and book review. I wanted to write about my experience in MIBF (Manila International Book Fair) and concerts last year but alas, I couldn't find the time until now. It seems like I'm more productive if everything I do is planned for and scheduled for. 

So, I want to tell you guys about my experience in the past book fairs/sales I've been. There's another one last weekend which I opt not to go because I'm not sure how to go there and I had a feeling most of the books there would be the remaining unsold stock they had on the last sale which looking at the posts in twitter is quite true. 

The first #NBSBookBingeBazaar last February 9 to 11 was amazing. Not something I expected. Plus P175 (Around $3.37) for one hardbound book, count me in. The books were not the latest release but some were released on 2017. We didn't mind as me and my sisters tend to buy books until the series is completed. We went during the first day and we thought arrived early but when we got there there's already a lot of people. The table where they had the Empire of Storms has already been swiped clean. It was a little overwhelming at first because I always go to the first day of MIBF and the crowd wasn't that much. I guess it had to do with the size of the venue and prices of the books.