#typesets

Thank you so much for the kind words! Yes, I'm happy to share my typeset. I've uploaded it to my google drive, and you can download it here. If you end up binding it, I'd love to see pictures when you're done!

A few notes about the typeset:

It's set for half letter folio. If you need a different size (i.e., not the weird US paper size system), let me know. I still have my Affinity files for it, and I should be able to tweak it to fit similar page sizes without too much work.

It's unimposed and will need to be run through an imposer before it can be bound (I bound my copies with 5 sheet signatures)

I completed this typeset before I learned how to trim text blocks, so the margins are a little narrow for trimming (but you probably could trim the head and tail if you were careful)

Thank you!! I love hearing when people reread my work. 🥹

Joff really does have a way of burrowing into people’s hearts, like a deadly parasite (said affectionately).

If you ever care to share your theories, I’m all ears! I can’t confirm or deny anything, but I like to know which clues my readers have sniffed out.

When you say format, I presume you mean what I use to make my typesets for bookbinding. For my very first typeset (my first try at Daemon’s Handbook), I used google docs because it was free. I don’t recommend it: options are pretty limited for creative formatting, and overall it’s a bit clunky for typesetting. However, it’s free to use, which is why I used it when I got started.

After I realized I wanted to continue my bookbinding hobby, I got Affinity Publisher. It’s kinda similar to Adobe, but it’s a one-time purchase instead of a subscription model. Affinity might still offer its 6 month free trial if you want to get a feel for it without spending money yet.

Affinity does have a learning curve, but I used a lot of bookbinding resources to figure it out, and now I love it. I’m never going back to google docs for my typesets. I used Affinity to make the typesets for The Golds and my second attempt at Daemon’s Handbook.

I’m willing to share the typesets I made for Daemon’s Handbook and The Golds, as long as the reader/binder promises to use it for personal use only and won’t be using it in any commercial/monetary exchanges. :)

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Typesetting the first book, cap 38.

What do you think about footnotes?? I love it when they have some interesting information or some specific content.

Here I put the authors' notes straight from the publication on Ao3, but I also put some notes from @wolfuckingstar who translated All The Young Dudes into Portuguese (and I translated the notes from Portuguese to English, despite my desire to keep them in the original language ). They made such intelligent observations about references to 70s English culture and the history of LGBT pride, it would be sad to leave these notes out