The Book of Denial

• Cover reveal on social media. 
•  Instagram and newsletter promotion to Enchanted Lion's significant social media following (40k on Instagram, 10k newsletter list). 
•  Outreach to translation-focused bloggers and reviewers. 
•  Outreach to design and graphic novel-focused bloggers and reviewers. 
•  Conversation with the creator + translator. 
•  Focused outreach to network of independent bookstores. 
•  Promotion of the book as part of the Unruly imprint.

From award-winning Mexican author Ricardo Chávez Castañeda and the visionary Mexican designer Alejandro Magallanes comes a horror story and ghost story that is both daringly and beautifully told in word and image.

There are stories so terrible that we tremble to hear even a whisper of them. Even more terrible, some of them are true.This is one such story, a story of our deepest inhumanity—one that confronts the history of violence against children, and through its young narrator attempts to find a way out. A horror story and ghost story told as much through art as through text, The Book of Denial is an antidote to our collective silence. By uplifting storytelling as a means of understanding the past and shaping the future, it is also—improbably—a beacon of hope.

Written by genre-defying Mexican author Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, The Book of Denial is a dark and powerful story within a story, illustrated with a striking graphic sensibility by Alejandro Magallanes and translated by Lawrence Schimel.This is the third book to appear under Unruly, an imprint of picture books for older readers, and will include a short note to readers about how it continues to build this experimental framework of visually complex, sophisticated picture books for teens and adu