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After getting the ick from my initial type set of ACOSF we are finally getting somewhere.

Test prints.

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Current Projects

A Court of Tangled Flames by Theladyofbloodshed

Hail Mary, Full of Grace and To Help Me Carry On by Pixelfun20

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Typesetting will be the end of me.

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The Fine Art of Book Butchery Deconstruction

What you need: bad book, a utility knife/box cutter. That's it!

A full guide below!

Strip the book!

Once it's naked, take a look! I've marked where the bookboard is attached to the spine. This is where you cut!

Do both sides and voila! Boards!

You can trim these to fit whatever size you need later - for now, set them aside! We're gonna get the headbands!

Delectable...hidden...Not for long!

You can very easily peel the spine back as seen here - and then you can peel the headband off.

Sometimes the glue makes it a bit tricky (as seen here) - just use your utiliknife!

Do both sides... and that's it!

With the remaining text block, it varies on if your city can recycle it. However, it's also good for paper mache! Pulp! Blackout poetry! Discard paper! Compost! Anything you'd like to do - have fun!

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Aaahhh! Thank you @theladyofbloodshed I will share some progress photos and yes very happy (read: nervous) to bind an author copy for you!

Hi, I hope you don't mind a message out of the blue. I absolutely adored your fanfiction A Court of Tangled Flames. It is my all time favourite Neris reimagining. The vibes are flawless. It’s basically my true ending to ACOSF and my ACOTAR Roman Empire.

I am a beginner fanbinder and would love to typeset and bind it into a physical book, but don't want to proceed without your permission. Rest assured, if you say yes, it would not be sold or distributed anywhere but would be solely for my reading pleasure and my bookshelf. Also, to caveat this with the fact these would be the one of the first books I have ever bound and is unlikely to be perfect in any shape/form, I would also be happy to bind you a copy of it as well, if you were interested.

Thanks either way :-)

Hello!

I am so glad my story means so much to you 😭🥰🥺

Yes, absolutely you can!! My only thing is I love to see pictures afterwards. I’d be over the moon if you would bind a copy for me too. I’d love to have all my fics on the shelf alongside my other writing 🥰