Armchair BEA: Networking

 Today's Topic: "Networking...in real life?!"

We’d love for you to share a positive “real life” experience with books! Either by way of your own partnerships in your community, a book signing you went to or possibly even a get together with fellow book bloggers. Tell us all about it!

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Being in Miami, we're really fortunate to have access to so many literary opportunities from author events to the Miami Book Fair ever November.  Even better is the amazing group of local bloggers that we get to share these experiences with :) Isalys knew Nely from All about {n} and Jen from Not Now, I’m Reading before blogging, but Ash from Smash Attack Reads, Yani from The Secret Life of an Avid Reader, Johanna from JJ iReads and even Marcela from Bookaholic Cat who visits us when she's in town from Turkey were introduced to us through blogging...and our other friend Yami who isn't a blogger, but is a reader who we met at our local Barnes & Noble.  We've connected with these girls in ways that we hadn't with anyone else (other than each other) because of our common love of reading and our insane sense of humor! Seriously, we might all be slightly imbalanced, lol.

We've hung out at various bookish events, worked on Bloggiesta together, had countless dinners, game nights, birthday celebrations, holiday parties, clothing swaps, movie mall tours, even gone dancing, etc.  We're become real, true-blue friends!

 

 

Books & Books is our local indie book store and they most the best author events in town!  We've gotten to go to two Dark Days tours and meet authors like: Carrie Ryan, Andrew Smith, Richelle Mead, Lauren Oliver, Lauren Kate, Kimberly Derting, Claudia Gray, Dan Wells, Tahereh Mafi, Veronice Rossi, Gayle Forman, Candace Bushnell, and more!  (True story!)

So if any other bloggers out there are in the Miami area, hit us up and we'll go to some events together.  And don't forget to check out Books & Books calender for info on events!

**We also don't want to fail to mention our MANY and AWESOMESAUCE pals on Twitter.  Some of our biggest, most gut-splitting laughs are courtesy of the friends we keep inside of the computer!**
#CheapThrillsTuesday / #WangTacoThursday / #EmergencyHornyChickKit - good times!

Now to the sad portion of our post, homegirl Ash from Smash Attack Reads is moving to Atlanta this month and we're going to miss her like whoa...seriously...this is quite tragic for us!  However, we're excited for the many awesome things we hope this move will bring her & her hubster and since Atlanta is just a hop, skip & jump north of Florida, we now have the perfect excuse to visit.  Maybe we can even form our own little Blogger Con somewhere in the middle *ooh*

So in conclusion *giggles* blogging has enriched our lives in ways that were completely unexpected, but totally wonderful!
(Wow, we're sappy as hell today!)