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@delazeur 's Questions Answered features a prickly 'red' Hawke and the most organic emergence of a throuple I've ever seen (plus, there's never enough Alistair/Anders in my book).

Caralyn's thorn motif ended up on the cover (very fun to paint, I'll have to do more painted covers) and title page(s); & red and gold honestly work for all three of them.

...lookit my endbands boy

#questions answered #delazeur #fanbinding #binderary 2024 #ficbinding

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Binderary is getting me off my butt to finish my 2023 projects, thank goodness; three volumes finished and four more on their way. This one was just for me: a collection of scholarship and primary sources on fanbinding!

I've been busily writing all over it since I took it out of the press 😂

#i have permission for none of these #but if you're interested in any sources DM me #fanbinding #fandom studies #binderary 2024

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excuse me ma'am i can't work like this

#i'm not dead sorry for the delays

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It’s the 28 days of Binderary 2023! Feel free to share your answers as we move through the month!

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I had a blast with this project, @sorrelchestnut's series everybody wants to be a cat! Post-apocalyptic spycraft in the 1950s-flavoured 2280s has never looked so good.

Of course I'm unreasonably fond of the title page cat, look at it :3

Thank you to both @needlesslycryptic and @rayeliann for permission to include their wonderful art!

#Sorrel #everybody wants to be a cat #needlesslycryptic #rayeliann #fanbinding #renato crepaldi you absolute marbling madlad. unf that paper #fallout 4

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August 21 is Fan Fiction Writer's Appreciation Day, and this year I'm showing mardia and their Knives Out story If I'm Haunting You, You Must Be Haunting Me some love!

#mardia #if i'm haunting you you must be haunting me #knives out #fanbinding #ffwad 2022 #renegadelovesfic #i was so excited to echo the iconic knife halo you have no idea. and blue & cream with that paper pattern? hopefully conveys #chris evans in a chunky sweater vibes lol

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Okay, so I’ve been wanting to try fic/book binding for ages.

The problem for me however isn’t the physical aspect of putting the book together, it’s the typesetting.

I’ve tried looking for guides, but I’ve got ADD and the guides I can find, through google and the renegade publishing guide/advice/FAQ google doc, can’t hold my attention, and it makes me want to gnaw my own hands off.

In all honesty I just want the suggested margin measurements best for your basic A4 printer paper. (I know there’s more to typesetting, but header/footer/side margins seem to be where my mind decides to throw a fit)

I’m probably making it harder then it needs to be tbh but nothing else has helped.

Thank you for your time

Hello, and thanks for reaching out! The more community members, the merrier 😄 !

(Please note that if you'd like an expert opinion, feel free to ask in the discord/reach out to my fellow Renegade members kate2kat & pleasantboatpress here on tumblr - they work primarily in A sizes, whereas I am a filthy US american.)

When I started out, I took my software's default margins and tweaked them til they looked okay to me.

"Default": 2.5 cm for every margin.

Tweaked: 2.5 cm for the top OR bottom margin, 2 cm for all other margins.

I know these are very basic, but it's a good place to start playing around to see what works for you.

A rule of thumb is to have 10-12 (maybe up to 14) words in an average line of text. Narrow margins and small font sizes reduce the final page count, but can make the page crowded/more difficult to read, and whether that tradeoff is worth it is up to you - a test print of a page or two really helps me here.

Give your page numbers and running header/footer with the title & author info (if included) breathing room. Look at the page proportions: even if top & bottom margins are exactly the same, when there's something interrupting the white space up top it makes the bottom margin seem wider by comparison.

Look at the innards of all kinds of books and make a note of what you do and don't like in the layouts; plus, copying examples is a great way to produce a period look. The golden ratio, for instance, can be used to imitate certain medieval/renaissance manuscripts!

TL;DR: start with the measurements above & then change them as needed based on the following:

What is being printed (are you replicating a look? Trying to save paper or stretch a short fic?)

Personal preference (where do you want the page #s/ author or title info, if any? Does a crowded page or any big blank space bother you?)

Your printer (most won't print to the paper's edge, leaving a 0.5 in. wide border of untouchable space) & the peculiarities of the software you use to typeset

Hope this or one of my fellow bookbinders helps! I'd love to see what you end up making :)

#fanbinding #humanransom-note #i looove trade paperbacks with razor-thin margins. books i make for myself squeeze those words in tight lol #ask #long post

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Before I started making hardcover books, I played around with pamphlets - this is a House MD fic my best friend rec'd to me all the way back in 2010. (!) It has since been deleted; I was very lucky to get hold of the text through the wayback machine.

It's written in a pseudo-bible style, so I had a fantastic time using typesetting elements from old bibles: blackletter fonts, rubricated letters, no standard spelling and hyphenation wherever i damn well please, and my good friend the pilcrow <3

#fanbinding #The Snark of St. Gregarious #Bardvhalla #the pilcrow my friend the pilcrow #i gave that same friend this as a gift because i think I'm hilarious

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The design process of making a book - picking the materials I'm going to use and matching them to a particular story - is half the fun, and when I saw this gorgeous red lacquered paper, I knew exactly which fic it belonged with: @glimmerglanger's A Treatise on Breaking and Repairs!

(the texture on the waves is bananas <3)

(yes this hits like every warning. that recovery arc tho 😏)

#fanbinding #A Treatise on Breaking and Repairs #glimmerglanger #cannot stop touching the waves. the texture...! #darkfic with *chefs kiss* recovery arc

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My favorite Fallout 3 fic, with my boy Charon lovingly illustrated by @ghoulish-fool <3

(Thanks again for letting me use your art, scull!!)

#i tried so hard to do a binding without using gold...but those gold and grey swirls man. hot damn #fanbinding #charon fallout 3 #ghoulish-fool

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Finally finished the last of my Binderary books 😅

#binderary 2022 #i was sooo busy this february...hoping for more time next year

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For the Renegade holiday gift exchange this year, I bound This Place at the Crossroads for my giftee, @robins-egg-bindery, and the author, alpha_hydra!

The Kirk/Spock pairing was the perfect excuse to go ham on blue and gold yet again.

In addition, there's a dash of Art Deco geometry to go with all the gilding:

#Renegade Holiday Exchange 2022 #This Place at the Crossroads #alpha_hydra #fanbinding #i managed one (1) whole project without gold in the design & that was before i got a yard of gold bookcloth

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According to the postal system, this book has been delivered, so I can finally share pics! I knew I wanted to bind @far-sector's Clone Wars AU fic (feat. force-sensitive, POW Cody) False Dichotomy by the time I reached the end of the first chapter. I love (love, LOVE) this work, and it's the first in an ongoing series!!

Thank you to the author for letting me include their wonderful art!

edit 3/6/22: I forgot to post the credits, for shame!

#False Dichotomy #nsmorig #far-sector #fanbinding #cody <3 #love me some monochromatic symbolism baybee

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I got a book in the mail today from the 2022 @renegadepublishing holiday gift exchange!! It's so perfect and palm-sized... I can't stop looking at it 🥰

My request was Mixing It Up, a Check Please! AU by sinspiration on ao3:

The reminiscent-of-baking-cups paper...😢 the clean and professional back cover blurb!!

The adorable endpaper pattern...!

I apologize for making my giftee, @sherezades, format text message conversations 😅 , but they're handled really well:

I can't wait to read this cover to cover! 💙

#sinspiration #Mixing It Up #Renegade Holiday Exchange 2022 #Renegade Bindery #Azahar #sherezades

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Lol so I didn't meet my goals in the least, but I finished three books, almost managed to complete two more, made four notebook text blocks and...did less typesetting than I should have. But then, I only had six days off in February. I did my best! Better luck next year :)

#binderary 2022 #i should branch out from geometric gold patterns #but...shiny

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Binderary 2022

I'm jumping on this @renegadepublishing event train, with my own half-baked "easy" rules! 28 books is not in my future, but I think I can manage:

- binding one volume of fic

- binding one notebook

- finishing one in-progress typesetting job

- and finishing one from-scratch typeset

per week! Let's do this 😈

#binderary 2022

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This is the very first book I ever made -

- where I learned valuable lessons such as "pay attention so you don't paste the endpapers in upside-down" 😂

#at least the endpapers were consistent - i accidentally flipped them both #the renegade publishing server was so helpful