#wavesketcher

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As promised to @wavesketcher-sq, these are pics of my binding of her wonderful novel "She Was a Mayfly". The story would deserve much better, but I wanted it to feel "personal" so I've done as much myself as I could (which is not good for the result). First and foremost, I wanted a physical copy I could put in my bookshelf and take out and read whenever I felt like it. I will be forever grateful for the chance to read it and how brilliant it was (and for the future times I will reread it too).

I also had the invaluable help of everybody in the Renegade Bindery Discord server (@renegadeguild).

“Back in the prison world, if I had kissed you… would you have kissed me back?”

Bonnie doesn’t look away from the changing screen. “No.”

“Well. That answered my question,” says Damon, not bothering to mask his offence.

Bonnie points the remote at the TV, shutting the colour to black. “You had a girlfriend. A girlfriend who loved you so damn much she had to erase her memories just to cope with your death—”

“Exactly, Bon! We were dead! We were trapped in eternal purgatory for all we knew. We could have been having sex like that,” he gestures vaguely upstairs, “every fucking day!”

“Why are you angry with me!?”

“I’m angry with everything!” It’s a shock to the system, this anger. But now he sees it, how it viciously begs for attention, and Bonnie is the only one he has left to listen. “I’m angry that my brother is dead when it should have been me! I’m angry that I tried to make things work with Elena when I should have been with you, and fine! Yes! I’m angry with you Bonnie. I’m angry that you just left! You left me, and all I got was a fucking postcard every couple months. Stupid, impersonal postcards! I didn’t care that you were in Paris, or London, or Naples — I wanted you home.”

It was lighter outside than he was used to upon waking, and the soldiers were already eating a meagre breakfast. 

“Dúnedain!” called one with a salute. “Is it true you have an elf in that tent?”

The soldier to his left grinned with all his missing teeth. “Some men get all the fun.”

Irritation flashed across Aragorn’s face, though he couldn’t blame the men for making light of what they couldn’t understand. Legolas, stubbornly though he would deny it, was a fish out of water in a camp of human soldiers. 

Aragorn marched on towards the General’s tent, eyes scanning for signs of the elegant elf among the bedraggled men. If Legolas willed it, he could become completely invisible to prying eyes, melting into the eaves of a tree like a leaf returning home. There were no trees in the barren land beyond the camp — only blood soaked mud and felled bodies. 

Aragorn suppressed a shudder. He loathed No Man’s Land. 

My own manuscript is currently being read by editors at a major publishing house too🙏 the likelihood of them taking it on is SLIM but there’s a little hope!! Basically, you deserve this so much and I really am so excited for your first published work.

love, wavesketcher

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