BookNet Fest Tag (created by Kathy Trithardt) _ 2019

**Sam’s Book Net Fest 2019 Tag: A Fun and Heartfelt Video Recap**

Hey guys! It’s Sam, and I’m here to talk about the **Book Net Fest 2019 tag**, which was created by Kathy, one of the biggest supporters of Book Net Fest. Kathy is amazing because she supports my infant (who will soon be a toddler), so if you’re not following her yet, I highly recommend checking out her channel below. If you’re planning to attend Book Net Fest or want to watch people who are attending this year, make sure to check out the tag and all the content Kathy has been sharing. This isn’t an official partnership with Book Net Fest, but it’s all about spreading love for the event. And trust me, I love it too!

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### **1. Introduce Yourself**

Hi! I’m Sam from *Thoughts on Tomes*. I’m one of the co-creators of Book Net Fest, and while I don’t want to talk too much about myself, this tag is perfect for introducing yourself to others—especially if you’re attending the event and don’t know anyone yet. So go ahead and tell me who you are in the comments below, and introduce yourself to other people doing the tag!

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### **2. Where Are You Traveling From/How Are You Getting to Orlando This Year?**

I’m coming from Delaware! Hopefully, this will be my last year flying from Delaware because by next year, I might have moved elsewhere. That’s actually another reason why I’m doing this tag—because next year, I might have a different answer! For now, I’ll be flying Southwest Airlines forever because they don’t charge baggage fees. It’s such a win-win!

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### **3. What Platforms Do You Express Your Love of Books On?**

I express my love for books on YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram—obviously. But I also use Tumblr, which a lot of people have forgotten about! I’m basically a Tumblr trashcan, reblogging all the book-related content and crying over it. If you don’t follow me on these platforms yet, make sure to check out my links below.

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### **4. Are You Reading/Have You Read or Do You Plan on Reading the Book Net Fest Book Club Books?**

We have two book club books this year, and I’ll link information about them down below. For anyone who couldn’t attend the event, there will be a “read after” the event so you can still participate in the community aspect of it. Now, to answer the question: I’m not reading one of the thriller books because… well, I don’t like thrillers! But I am reading the other one this month—it’s called *Midsummer’s Mayhem* by Raja de la Roca, and it’s so cute. It’s one of my noot (not-optional) books for this month!

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### **5. What Are You Most Looking Forward to at Book Net Fest This Year?**

Oh, there are *so many things*! I’m really excited about meeting everyone because that’s the best part. Please come say hi if you see me—I mean it! Even though I might be tired at some points, this year we’ve spread out more so I won’t be running around nonstop like in year one. So if you spot me just hanging out, don’t hesitate to approach. Also, I’m planning to get there early and stay late, doing fun things like the Food & Wine Festival, an unofficial Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party with Book Net Fest people, and the prom! Speaking of prom, I’m in charge of planning it this year. It’s going to be amazing—there will be book-themed drinks, decorations, a photobooth, and so much more. Oh, and I’ve been working on the playlist for months! Last night, I asked Book Net Fest Twitter for song recommendations reminiscent of their proms, and Spotify added even *more* songs that fit the vibe. Let me play you a sample of what might be playing at the prom…

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### **6. Have You Attended Any Other Bookish Events That You’d Recommend?**

My second-favorite book event is **Y’all Fest** because it’s so chill and held in a nice outdoor area. It’s not as crazy with ARC drops, which I appreciate. I’m not opposed to attending events like En Vogue Con, but they’re not my favorite. I’d love to try out smaller regional events too, like the No Bater Book Festival or the Boston TIFU festival. Even signings with authors are nice if you’re lucky enough to have them near you—which I never am, by the way.

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### **7. What Book Are You Planning to Read That Weekend?**

Honestly, I don’t know if I’ll get any reading done because this is one of the few times of year I get to see most of my friends. But I’ll probably read on the plane—either audiobooks or physical copies. Maybe I’ll start some fall reads, like *The Ninth House* by Naomi V Ultra. It’s a toss-up whether I’ll have time for it, but we’ll see!

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### **8. Do You Have Any Internet Book Friends That You’re Excited About Seeing or Meeting for the First Time?**

I have so many people I’m excited to see! My friend group that always attends events together is amazing, and I can’t wait to catch up with them all. I’m also really pumped to meet Raja Jefferies because I feel like we’ll be best friends immediately. The speaker lineup this year is incredible, and I just want to meet everyone. It’s one of those events where you can actually meet all the creators, which is so special. Plus, there are people saying they’re coming last minute—so many surprises! I don’t want to name too many names because I might forget someone, but trust me—I want to meet *you* if you’re attending!

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### **Conclusion**

I’m super hyped that Book Net Fest has created so much love in the community that people are now creating their own tags like this one. There’s also an “after” tag for those who couldn’t attend, which I might participate in as well. If you’re not attending by the way, there’s going to be a **Book Net Fest FOMO Read-a-Thon** hosted by Sarah Jane from *The Book Life*. She’ll announce all the details on Twitter, so make sure to follow her if you’re not already.

If you’re feeling sad because you can’t attend, don’t worry—you can participate in the FOMO read-a-thon, which will be a long weekend of reading and community. Comment below to let me know if you’re attending or any other thoughts you have about Book Net Fest!

Thank you all for watching! I’ll see you guys soon.

Bye!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys it's Sam and I'm here to do the book net fest tag for 2019 now I have not done the book net fest tag in the past this time was created by Kathy who is one of book net fests like biggest supporters and she just makes me so happy all the time because she's like supporting my infant so I will leave her channel down below please go follow her and also if you are attending book net fest or you want to watch the people that are attending book Mehta Fest this year to see if you want to go to book net fest check out this tag and everyone that's been doing it and Kathy's gonna be tweeting probably a lot of links to it this is not an official affiliation with book net fest the event but it's about people loving the event and I love the event so I'm doing it is that fair I also just want you guys to see the tag so you can do the tag cuz I will watch you guys do the tag it's fine question number one is to introduce yourself this is especially good for if you are attending the event and don't know anybody i'm sam from thoughts on tomes i'm one of the co-creators of book net fest and i don't want to talk about myself but introduce yourself to me down below if you're attending and introduce yourself other people and do the tech clean number two is where are you traveling from slash how are you getting to Orlando this year I'm coming from Delaware hopefully this will be my last year flying from Delaware and by next year I'll have moved so that's another reason doing the tag too because I'm like next year maybe I can have a different answer but I will be flying Southwest forever because they don't charge you baggage fees question number three is what platforms do you express your love of books on obviously YouTube Twitter I'm more than should be Instagram mostly Instagram stories so and tumblr which I think a lot of people have forgotten that I am a tumblr trashcan so I talk about book stuff media stuff and reblogging all the things and crying over them on tumblr so if you don't follow me on any of those platforms they are linked down below number four is are you reading have you read or do you plan on reading the book net Fest book club books you guys aren't familiar we have two book club books this year I will link information for them down below it's also on the website we're going to be having live book clubs there and also for anyone that didn't get to attend the event will be having sort of like a read after the event as well because this is about the community including people that don't get to attend coconut fest so looking forward to that I'm not reading one of them because it's a thriller and I'm not a thriller person but I am reading the other one this month my time this goes up I might already have read it but I'm pre filming so and that is Midsummer's mayhem by Raja de la Roca and it's so cute it's one of my noot books for this month number five is what are you most looking forward to at book net Fest this year now there are so many things because obviously I know all the behind the scenes things I'm very excited about a lot of that my biggest thing is getting to meet and see everybody so please please please if you are attending and I know a lot people say this but I mean it please come say hi to me like it literally doesn't bother me I might be super tired at some points but this year we've been pretty good about spreading ourselves out so that were not go-go-go year one was only me and Mari moderating all of panel and now we are able to split things up and not be on everything so if you see me just like hanging out please say hi to me looking forward to that and looking forward to us hanging out people like between the event I'm getting there a little early actually in staying a little late as well so I'm doing stuff like going to the Food and Wine Festival we're doing an unofficial Mickey's not-so-scary Halloween party thing with book net fest people there's also the prom so I'm basically in charge of planning the prom and everything about the problem because I was on my prom planning committee in high school so last night I went through and was starting to do the playlist I want to play you a sample of three songs now because I just want to see kind of what Spotify comes up with because there's over 100 songs on this playlist I asked a lot of people on the book net fest Twitter to tell me the songs that were like reminiscent of their prom so we added a lot of those and Spotify was like here's some more songs it sound like that I'm like way to go Spotify so let's see just like a sample of what may be playing at Book NEFAs prom I obviously have to be stopped when having way too much fun with the prom planning to be completely honest so the playlist there's gonna be book themed drinks gonna be decoration Lynda Gratton be a photobooth I can't wait there's all these other little social things are happening throughout a lot of the panels i'm hype for the goth fantasy panel that i'm moderating there's a lot ok the schedule is already posted so if you guys haven't seen it go ahead and check out the schedule because all the things are on there there's all the different tracks listed as far as like community things collaboration social stuff that's all kind of the same thing and the workshops and panels and stuff so check it out you're going number 6 have you attended any other bookish events that you'd recommend my second favorite book of emphasized book Memphis is y'all fest I really enjoy y'all fast how chill it is and just like it's outside it's in a nice area that I love visiting just for the area it's just not craziness with ARC drops and things like that I do not like as I mentioned before the en vogue con I like the a little bit more I'm not opposed to attending them but they're not my favorite event I'd like to try out like a la and some of those things but I tend to like the smaller regional event I wouldn't consider golf as small by any means but I do like some of the smaller regional events I've been to like no Bateen Book Festival I've been to Boston Tina their festival things like that and even just like signings with authors when they come near you if you're lucky enough which I am NOT but if you are lucky enough then that's a nice little perk as well number seven what book are you planning to read that weekend I don't know if I'm gonna get any reading done to be completely honest this is like one of the only times of year I get to see most of my friends so I'm just like trying to probably soak that up but I'll read on the plane and probably read like audiobooks of stuff on the plane and physical copy so I'm not sure we'll be reading at that point I might be starting some my fall reads so it might be like a ninth house devouring gray time' 10 the year starting i don't know we'll see we'll see what I'm feeling but it's a couple weeks away so I don't know what'll be reading about line number eight do you have any internet book friends that you're excited about seeing or even meeting for the first time I have so many people I set about seeing obviously my friends that I've had for years that I am excited about seeing all like that friend group that always attend things together I'm really pumped to me just from Jefferies books because I feel like we're going to be best friends immediately and really I mean our whole speaker line-up is amazing and I just want to meet all of them which I'll get to which is great that's what some my spell book met fest that's small enough that you can meet all the creators are gonna be there and there's all these people that are saying that they're coming like last minute I'm excited to me and just everybody and I don't want to name a ton names because then I feel like if I forget somebody they're gonna feel like I don't want to meet them and I do you're going to book my fest I wanna meet you just let that be known so that is it for the book that best tad I'm super hyped that our event has created so much love that people have created a book net fest tag where there's also an after book met fest tag that was created but we'll see if people are doing it this year and that I might do that as well so I don't know it for you but fact that my little infant baby will not like a toddler because we're three this is our third year but I'm so excited that my toddler event that I co-founded with Maddie is just like means so much to people that they create tags around it like I cry if you're not attending book net fest by the way there's going to actually be a read-a-thon taking place called book met fest FOMO read-a-thon that Sarah Jane from the book life is running for us so she'll be announcing all that on the Twitter so if you're not following book net fest Twitter definitely check it out down below it's gonna be like a little longer than a weekend like it was like a long weekend read-a-thon to kind of correspond with the actual event but she is helping to run all of that so if you are not attending and you're feeling kind of sad now cuz you watch this video and you wish you could be there you can do the book nut fest FOMO reading love so comment below let me know if you're attending book nut fast and any other thoughts you might have that are looking at best related so thank you all for watching I'll see you guys soon bye youhey guys it's Sam and I'm here to do the book net fest tag for 2019 now I have not done the book net fest tag in the past this time was created by Kathy who is one of book net fests like biggest supporters and she just makes me so happy all the time because she's like supporting my infant so I will leave her channel down below please go follow her and also if you are attending book net fest or you want to watch the people that are attending book Mehta Fest this year to see if you want to go to book net fest check out this tag and everyone that's been doing it and Kathy's gonna be tweeting probably a lot of links to it this is not an official affiliation with book net fest the event but it's about people loving the event and I love the event so I'm doing it is that fair I also just want you guys to see the tag so you can do the tag cuz I will watch you guys do the tag it's fine question number one is to introduce yourself this is especially good for if you are attending the event and don't know anybody i'm sam from thoughts on tomes i'm one of the co-creators of book net fest and i don't want to talk about myself but introduce yourself to me down below if you're attending and introduce yourself other people and do the tech clean number two is where are you traveling from slash how are you getting to Orlando this year I'm coming from Delaware hopefully this will be my last year flying from Delaware and by next year I'll have moved so that's another reason doing the tag too because I'm like next year maybe I can have a different answer but I will be flying Southwest forever because they don't charge you baggage fees question number three is what platforms do you express your love of books on obviously YouTube Twitter I'm more than should be Instagram mostly Instagram stories so and tumblr which I think a lot of people have forgotten that I am a tumblr trashcan so I talk about book stuff media stuff and reblogging all the things and crying over them on tumblr so if you don't follow me on any of those platforms they are linked down below number four is are you reading have you read or do you plan on reading the book net Fest book club books you guys aren't familiar we have two book club books this year I will link information for them down below it's also on the website we're going to be having live book clubs there and also for anyone that didn't get to attend the event will be having sort of like a read after the event as well because this is about the community including people that don't get to attend coconut fest so looking forward to that I'm not reading one of them because it's a thriller and I'm not a thriller person but I am reading the other one this month my time this goes up I might already have read it but I'm pre filming so and that is Midsummer's mayhem by Raja de la Roca and it's so cute it's one of my noot books for this month number five is what are you most looking forward to at book net Fest this year now there are so many things because obviously I know all the behind the scenes things I'm very excited about a lot of that my biggest thing is getting to meet and see everybody so please please please if you are attending and I know a lot people say this but I mean it please come say hi to me like it literally doesn't bother me I might be super tired at some points but this year we've been pretty good about spreading ourselves out so that were not go-go-go year one was only me and Mari moderating all of panel and now we are able to split things up and not be on everything so if you see me just like hanging out please say hi to me looking forward to that and looking forward to us hanging out people like between the event I'm getting there a little early actually in staying a little late as well so I'm doing stuff like going to the Food and Wine Festival we're doing an unofficial Mickey's not-so-scary Halloween party thing with book net fest people there's also the prom so I'm basically in charge of planning the prom and everything about the problem because I was on my prom planning committee in high school so last night I went through and was starting to do the playlist I want to play you a sample of three songs now because I just want to see kind of what Spotify comes up with because there's over 100 songs on this playlist I asked a lot of people on the book net fest Twitter to tell me the songs that were like reminiscent of their prom so we added a lot of those and Spotify was like here's some more songs it sound like that I'm like way to go Spotify so let's see just like a sample of what may be playing at Book NEFAs prom I obviously have to be stopped when having way too much fun with the prom planning to be completely honest so the playlist there's gonna be book themed drinks gonna be decoration Lynda Gratton be a photobooth I can't wait there's all these other little social things are happening throughout a lot of the panels i'm hype for the goth fantasy panel that i'm moderating there's a lot ok the schedule is already posted so if you guys haven't seen it go ahead and check out the schedule because all the things are on there there's all the different tracks listed as far as like community things collaboration social stuff that's all kind of the same thing and the workshops and panels and stuff so check it out you're going number 6 have you attended any other bookish events that you'd recommend my second favorite book of emphasized book Memphis is y'all fest I really enjoy y'all fast how chill it is and just like it's outside it's in a nice area that I love visiting just for the area it's just not craziness with ARC drops and things like that I do not like as I mentioned before the en vogue con I like the a little bit more I'm not opposed to attending them but they're not my favorite event I'd like to try out like a la and some of those things but I tend to like the smaller regional event I wouldn't consider golf as small by any means but I do like some of the smaller regional events I've been to like no Bateen Book Festival I've been to Boston Tina their festival things like that and even just like signings with authors when they come near you if you're lucky enough which I am NOT but if you are lucky enough then that's a nice little perk as well number seven what book are you planning to read that weekend I don't know if I'm gonna get any reading done to be completely honest this is like one of the only times of year I get to see most of my friends so I'm just like trying to probably soak that up but I'll read on the plane and probably read like audiobooks of stuff on the plane and physical copy so I'm not sure we'll be reading at that point I might be starting some my fall reads so it might be like a ninth house devouring gray time' 10 the year starting i don't know we'll see we'll see what I'm feeling but it's a couple weeks away so I don't know what'll be reading about line number eight do you have any internet book friends that you're excited about seeing or even meeting for the first time I have so many people I set about seeing obviously my friends that I've had for years that I am excited about seeing all like that friend group that always attend things together I'm really pumped to me just from Jefferies books because I feel like we're going to be best friends immediately and really I mean our whole speaker line-up is amazing and I just want to meet all of them which I'll get to which is great that's what some my spell book met fest that's small enough that you can meet all the creators are gonna be there and there's all these people that are saying that they're coming like last minute I'm excited to me and just everybody and I don't want to name a ton names because then I feel like if I forget somebody they're gonna feel like I don't want to meet them and I do you're going to book my fest I wanna meet you just let that be known so that is it for the book that best tad I'm super hyped that our event has created so much love that people have created a book net fest tag where there's also an after book met fest tag that was created but we'll see if people are doing it this year and that I might do that as well so I don't know it for you but fact that my little infant baby will not like a toddler because we're three this is our third year but I'm so excited that my toddler event that I co-founded with Maddie is just like means so much to people that they create tags around it like I cry if you're not attending book net fest by the way there's going to actually be a read-a-thon taking place called book met fest FOMO read-a-thon that Sarah Jane from the book life is running for us so she'll be announcing all that on the Twitter so if you're not following book net fest Twitter definitely check it out down below it's gonna be like a little longer than a weekend like it was like a long weekend read-a-thon to kind of correspond with the actual event but she is helping to run all of that so if you are not attending and you're feeling kind of sad now cuz you watch this video and you wish you could be there you can do the book nut fest FOMO reading love so comment below let me know if you're attending book nut fast and any other thoughts you might have that are looking at best related so thank you all for watching I'll see you guys soon bye you\n"