#bekala

This is the first of my @fanartfrenzy fanbinds, and fills the "create art for an AU" square. (There should be a second finished bind by the end of the week.)

@bekala (Beckala on AO3) is my absolute favorite Wintershock author; every one of her Bucky/Darcy stories brims over with love and humor and action. ready or not is one of her more recent stories and the perfect size for a quarto. It’s a rock star AU that takes place at Radio City Music Hall, so I incorporated musical notes in the endpapers as well as the scene breaks. I also had a little bit of fun with the chapter headings and I really like how they turned out.

Because I also like trying new things with every bind, this was also one of my first attempts at doing headbands and endbands.

I picked the cover paper because (a) I like the color and (b) it looks a little Art Decco-y to me, and since Bucky and Darcy spend the entire story running around Radio City Music Hall and breaking into the Secret Apartment (which is Art Decco to the max), that felt thematically correct. The title and author are printed on regular cream paper, and then I ripped around them for no other reason than it just looked interesting. Like a paper ticket ripped in two when you go into the theater. Yeah, that sounds good, that’s what I was thinking, yup.

The only thing I would change is that I fucked up the final press, and somehow the book shifted and is now a little skewed. Gah. But I’ve been brainstorming how to prevent that from happening in the future, so we’ll see if that works for the book I’m casing in later today.

(But look at that nice smooth trimmed textblock. Nice, huh? Oh yeah.)