Fanbinding: Left by lifeonmars
Project 50, Binds 68 & 69, and Binderary Books #9-10 Left by lifeonmars ( @marsdaydream ) Completed: February 21, 2026 Size: Legal Quarto. 45,153 words, 231 pages
This is a fantastic magical realism story that was one of the first fics I knew I wanted to bind when I turned my attention to past Sherlock reads. Because John Watson’s left-handedness is a major plot-point I wanted to incorporate a hand into the cover design and ended up finding the perfect icon set from the noun project. That ended up establishing a round theme with the Type Keys font for the title and chapter numbers. This was one of the only times where I knew what the cover would look like before I started formatting the text, allowing for a bit more coordination than usual.
Because I was using a bookcloth sampler pack from Book Craft Supply Co. for the covers the two books are not identical. Neither are the endpapers - in this case a cozy plaid was as close as I could get to the traditional Watsonian cuddly jumper.
Formatted in LibreOffice Writer as usual, with Century Schoolbook as the body font and IM Fell Double Pica (of course) for other subheadings.












