Today is a big day here at BookGig HQ as we are officially celebrating our first birthday – we can’t believe it’s come around so fast (just like our personal birthdays in fact 😒 😒). But it’s true! BookGig was launched on 11th October 2016 as a unique platform designed to help you book loving folk discover the best literary events across the UK, covering a whole spectrum of different genres and events of all shapes and sizes.
From crime to celebrity memoir, cookery,
children’s, poetry, to sci-fi and fantasy – BookGig has something for everyone.
A lot has happened in a year – we
have featured more than 8,000 events across the UK, helping more authors reach
their fans and more book lovers to find events they’ll enjoy.
BookGig’s new Facebook community might
even have been partially to blame for some events selling out – there have
been a few events we’ve promoted which reached over a half a million fans in
under 24 hours!
And we’re only really just
getting started! We’ve been working tirelessly behind the scenes on some
new and exciting features that we think you’ll love even more.
We’re soon launching our new user
recommendation engine – by generating a profile we can tailor the events you
see on BookGig to make your experience unique to you. Hopefully, this means
that you’ll have more free time to attend all the events that tickle your
fancy. And that’s not all, we’re also going to be refreshing our website’s
design to make looking for your next author talk or book signing even more easy and fun.
To our wonderful community and
all of the venues, booksellers and publishers that have worked with us to bring
bigger audiences together – THANK YOU! We appreciate your help and so do your
attendees. Please keep letting us know about exciting events you have coming up,
as we would love to help promote more amazing events around the country.
Keep watching this site and
following us on social media for all the best of book based events near you.
Love,
Team BookGig
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