#AprilFeelsDay: Thoughts and Feelings Recap
How do I even begin?
The #AprilFeelsDay tag on Instagram is my happy place right now. It’s a collection of photos taken during the event, and I was there, but I was running around and constantly thinking of what was to happen like ten minutes into the future, so I couldn’t exactly be in the moment.
We in the #romanceclass (romance in English by Filipino authors) community planned #AprilFeelsDay as a next step, after participating in several events as the “romance people.” We’ve done small-scale meetups and private gatherings, but haven’t yet organized an event that was open to the public and made everyone who attended “romance people” by default. Summer was as good a time as any to do it, so we chose April 17 as the day.
After considering various venues and cities, we decided on Pegi Waffles in San Juan. It’s a little out of the way but it’s a cute spot with great food, and on a normal day looks like this.
On April 17, it looked like this:
A photo posted by Miel Salva (@mielsalva) on Apr 17, 2016 at 3:01pm PDT
Still cute, but also packed! In the summer!
We sold books. Indie authors side by side with traditionally published romance authors.
A photo posted by Tara (@twostepflight) on Apr 17, 2016 at 1:19am PDT
We met and hung out with readers and authors…well, they did. I was running around and didn’t get to talk so much.
