So, several long long long months ago, I promised a certain fanfic author to bind their fic when they finished it. Now, it's a hefty fic and I've never done book binding before, so it's a little daunting. And with the fic being split with a time-skip, I decided it might be more feasible to put it into two books. Life is hectic and busy but I wanted to share what I have to build this magnificent book, Somewhere, Sometime by IGOM.
I don't like gutting real books for any sort of reason but this needed a hard cover. I thought I'd just go to Walmart and get one of those nice leather looking journals. Simple, but sleek. I could design a jacket to make it fancier. But! I found this.
You can slightly see the texture on this thing. It's so shiny and lovely. And it was just there in my local coffee shop. The pages have this slight pattern that I know won't translate once I print out the fic, but I thought I'd bind it then use some spray paint or something to get something like this. Will have to test before placing in book, of course.
Then the front and back have these nice, solid brown pages and I do love the elastic to keep it together, as well as the ribbon. Those stay. Pretty sure I have to gut them but they will be returned in the finished product. There is also a little envelope, folder piece but I don't know how attached to that part I am.
And for those curious, the little blurb on the back.
I followed the barcode by accident but it brought me to the company that made this and lemme tell you, if this works out, I will be spoiled for options for the second part.
Depending on how the second part goes, I'm thinking either the Wildflower Song, Layla, or Iron Horse. I want the designs to be similar but not identical. (Also, if anyone wanted them, here.)
This is what I've got so far as the current title page. I think it looks decent.
Looking again, this journal does only have 144 pages and my current document for the formatting has the fic at 762 pages. I may need to put it into multiple different books. Maybe this one is just the Jeralt in Almyra arc.
...Yes, I think that would be fun. We'll see how this goes.
Does it look better with the "Part 1" under or over the author name?
And finally, at the moment what the pages look like.
The pink line will have to be changed but I haven't yet figured out what I pushed to make it pink.
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