Raw Shark is Delicious!

Following up on a post from a few weeks ago, here's more on the Raw Shark Texts.

Last night a couple of us from the office decided to head down to the Raw Shark Texts launch at the SPIN Gallery -- what a show! The gallery is a really great space, big and bright, very malleable, and had enough room for the HarperCollins team to assemble a mock-up of the boat 'The Orpheus' featured briefly in the book.

HarperCollins also treated the assembled booklovers to a special book-bonus: 'In every country except Canada," said author Steven Hall, "the book starts on page 3. However, in Canada the story begins on page -22." The publisher created only 100 copies of a special Chapter 0 only available in Canada that starts the story even earlier than Hall had originally anticipated.

Hall was a lovely man to speak with, in turns both proud of his books success and flattered by the out-pouring of admiration by the books' (and the publicity campaigns') fans. All in all, a fantastic evening, supported by Pages This Is Not a Reading Series.