Fanbinding: The Naked British Baker Trio by Kingbooooo
Bind #16
The Naked British Baker by kingbooooo
Date Completed: 2/15/2025 (binderary copy), 3/2/2025 (author copy)
Size: Quarto. 21,609 words, 211 pages (3 stories)
Copies: 2
7th Book of Binderary
I love a good modern Terror AU, especially ones with an office setting (it’s a workplace comedy, right?). This one has Francis learning to bake items for his office to compete with the amazing baked goods brought in by sales-rep James, and getting increasingly frustrated by the long-winded stories included in the baking blog he’s following. Also featuring Cornelius the cantankerous cat, Blanky the enthusiastic wingman, and a reference to FitzJames dubious poetical efforts.
This wasn’t originally on my binding list for February but we had a surprise snow day midway through the month - I ran out of things to work on from home and started some late afternoon typesetting. Tried incorporating images (inspired by one of the Binderary presentations) and also switched up the running headers for each of the three individual stories. That was a first for me and a bit of a puzzler in LibreOffice Writer (still not sure I did it “correctly” but it worked, more or less). 11pt Liberation Serif for the body font, with Poor Richard for the titles.
I should know by now that siser metallic HTV isn’t the best combination with Hollander’s Allure book cloth, but I gave it a second shot anyway. It reacted about as well as last time.
I finished the author copy just after Binderary ended and was able to fix a lot of the mistakes I made the first time around, both in the typeset and materials selection (Michael’s MakeMarket HTV and mystery Amazon bookcloth). The cover design for both was cobbled together from corner spot illustrations in one of my many Dover Pictorial Archive books. I couldn’t find anything coconut related, so generic round fruit had to do stand-in duty.