#bookmaking

Finished my bookmaking project lessgoooo

Image 1. Tiny Pockets Press Recently, I’ve been working on a little project to let me compose a book and print the pages, targeting different miniature book sizes. I’m often fascinated by tiny books, and perhaps one of the first tiny books I made was a tiny book of butterflies, after hearing a song at the time, “Strange Attraction,” on The Cure’s album Wild Mood Swings, which mentioned such a…

Yep. I’ve already got my next poetry book ready to go. April is such a great month to get me going on it. I found my direction while writing my daily poems with all of you, and then I opened up my folder from the past year since I published Thick & Thin, and I found a trove of verses just waiting to complement what I wrote in April. I didn’t use every poem from April, and I’ve reordered the ones…

Part 3 of my comic project!

I never expected to sell the entire first edition of my first full-length book of poetry, The Weeds Grow Anyway, within six months of releasing it. To say I am grateful would be an understatement. Thank you to everyone who made this book possible, who supported my efforts with resources, knowledge, and by ordering their own copy.

I am working on binding the second edition now. You can secure your own linocut-printed, hand-bound copy by preordering. The book is also available in an ebook format.

As booktober is coming to a close, we’re taking a moment to celebrate the creative art of fannish bookbinding!  Fannish bookbinding and bookmaking is a type of fancraft where fans aim to replicate books or create original books inspired from their canons or bind fanfic, and can also overlap with the creation of custom zines.

Fanbinding can be done through commercial services, such as Print on Demand companies, or can be done non-commercial by printing and binding the works by hand. This involves methods such as old-school spiral bindings, using desktop thermal binding machines, traditional hand-sewn bindings for hardcovers or pamphlets, or glueless bindings such as coptic or sewn board binding.

Though author feedback is positive for the most part, fannish bookbinding faces the criticism that some people might do it to make a monetary profit and there is also the controversy of copyright blanket permission and plagiarism to consider.

Are you interested in learning more about fannish bookbinding? Check out our Fanlore page!

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