On Amazon's Omnivoracious, Heidi Broadhead asks the question "Sloane Crosley, Why Are You So Funny?" Well, it turns out Heidi "found that Crosley had not only created Plexiglas-encased diorama sets for her essays, she had also narrated video tours of them."

However, this isn't the first time dioramas have played a part in quirky book publicity story angles and sidebars. Rudolph Delson's Maynard & Jennica inspired French sculpey artist H5L5N5 to recreate nine scenes from the book including Joan Tate getting drunk on Bloody Marys while waiting for her son.

Many diorama artists are finding inspiration from authors for their work. In a post on Fine Scale Moddler (I check it every day) Bultenibo "was inspired by the American author H.P. Lovecraft and his horror short stories, especially the short story "Call of Cthulhu". In the diorama I tried to model a scene were some tentacle monster just has been summoned to the Earth to raise hell." See all the angles of this AWESOME diorama here.

I hope Arkham House publicity is paying attention. This is a great opportunity for them, especially with the premiere of the latest Lovecraft film adaptation, Beyond the Dunwich Horror, coming up on May 23.

Well, this being Galleycat, I couldn't help but include this link to a youtube video of someone's cat that fell asleep on their 300 diorama. THIS IS LOLARTA?