We try to come up with new ideas to make sure that each new book reaches a reader who’ll love it and so, when The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal landed on desks at HC HQ, we were inspired to launch it as creatively as we could in the hope of making it stand out from the crowd.
We thought about how to reach the imaginative and interesting people we felt sure would love the book and came up with two main ideas:
The design competition has been open for a little while now and, very excitingly, we’ve been inundated with entries already. There’s still plenty of time to add your design; the competition is open until mid April. Visit the Saatchi Gallery for all the details including extracts of the novel itself.
I really love this book – so I’ve been inspired to see the visions that artists and readers have had for it. If I could, I’d press a copy of the book into the hands of everyone I met. No, why stop there? Make that everyone I ever sat next to on the bus, everyone who was sitting alone at a bar waiting for a friend, every unsuspecting person soaking up the sunshine in the park, whispering, ‘Try this one; you’ll love it.’
And I’m not alone (luckily; it’s never a nice feeling). The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal has been voted one of the best novels of 2007 in Canada where it was first published (it’s known as The Girls Who Saw Everything over there).
Bloggers in Canada have taken it to their hearts: ‘Every chapter is filled with biff, bang, pow surprises! Suspend your disbelief and thrill in the oddities’ says She Does the City – and the impressively named Three Squirrels in a Pressure Cooker declared it ‘the most enjoyable book that I have read this year’:
I loved it start to finish, and lost a full day devoted to doing nothing but following the adventures of the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club. If you’re to buy one book this year, make it this one. Seriously, there is magic here, beautiful magic.
We’re all invigorated by working creatively and imaginatively on this book but don’t tell our bosses that really we’re pretty hooked on the competition, checking back for new entries when we probably ought to be doing something much less exciting.
It’s been a fantastic journey so far and we’re still some way off publication in July. So please, come, join us, and be part of the magical world of the Lacuna Cabal.