BookyCon to Host Bestselling Authors in the Metaverse

Booky Call, a free book discovery platform cleverly disguised as a dating app, is hosting BookyCon, the world's largest virtual book festival Nov. 12. Held in the Metaverse, the festival will feature hours of author interviews, meet-and-greet opportunities, book club lounges, user discussion areas and exhibit booths. 
"We are dedicated to bringing books to life," Booky Call's CEO Brant Menswar noted. "We're excited to host the first large-scale celebration of authors and their books in the Metaverse."
BookyCon is a book festival in the Metaverse.

Bestselling author Christopher Rice will open the BookyCon main stage, which is sponsored by Ingram Spark. Rice, who also publishes as C. Travis Rice, will discuss both his thrillers and his romance novels.

Participants will be able to interact with authors, industry insiders and leaders of virtual book clubs as they guide their avatars around the virtual convention space. They can visit a virtual bookstore, purchase merchandise, join a book club discussion at a virtual bar, test their knowledge and trivia and engage in fireside meet-and-greets after hearing speakers on one of seven stages. The main stage is powered by Ingram Spark while HTP Books, Button Poetry, Inkyard Press, Blue Box Press, 4 Horsemen Publications and New Shelves are sponsoring the genre-themed stages.
The Independent Book Publishers Association, Women in Publishing Summit, 4 Horsemen Publications, Florida Authors and Publishers Association, and The Custom Library Co. store will host exhibit booths while the Book Nerds' Book Reviews, Black Girl Book Club, YA & NA Fantasy Book Lovers and the BookTok Baddies — four virtual groups on social media — will be hosting Book Club Bars.

Full story here