#renegade exchange

[little-cat-press]

Trying To Communicate by @copperbadge for @saltyteethbooks for the @renegadepublishing mini book bang!

@saltyteethbooks did the typeset, and I bound it, and sent it over to them.

I'm supposed to make myself a copy too, but stuff happened and I wasn't able to bookbind for like half a month, after procrastinating the first half of the month, and I finished this copy on the last day before we were supposed to get them in the mail.

So.

I'll make my copy later.

It was fun making a sextodecimal book! It's a cute little size, and I'll probably make some more after this. This one might be a little bit of an odd size, because it's typeset for A4 paper, but I shrank it a little to print on Letter instead, and then the printer shrank it a little more because it likes to add margins.

So it's got A proportions, but is a little bit smaller.

The title is done with a new gold paint I got recently! Nice and shiny, and I only had to use one coat plus a few small touchups in spots.

#little cat press #bookbinding #typesetting by saltyteethbooks #bound by me #author: copperbadge #saltyteethbooks #copperbadge #a gift #gifted to saltyteethbooks #renegade exchange #size: A8 #mini book bang 2023 #typeset by someone else

[zhalfirin]

Bionic Battle Granny - ozhawk

These books were part of the Renegady Publishing Tiny Books Bang 2023 event

The typeset was provided by @claudeng80 The story was written by @ozhawkauthor, check out their work!

Full leather binding with leather onlays in clamshell box. case materials binders board 1,5 (case) different leathers, goatskin, (covering material) heat reactive foil, blue (hot stamped title) blind tooled author name

inner book Munken polar 100gsm (book body) @renato-crepaldi marbled paper (endpapers) wibalin (second fly leaf, tipped on the first) button hole silk (endbands)

clamshell box binders board 1 and 1,5 (boxes and case) uncoated blue book cloth (covering material case) @renato-crepaldi marbled paper (covering material boxes) heat reactive foil, cream (hot stamped title)

#bookbinding #tiny books bang #bionic battle granny #ozhawk #claudeng80 #renato crepaldi marbled paper #clamshell box #not my typeset #renegade exchange #this was so much fun #I do not have the nerves to send these things out without tracking #it's a lesson learned

[wild-woofs-press]

For the 2023 Renegade Bound Fic Exchange (cc: @renegadepublishing).

Fic: Play It Again by metisket Words: 63,206

fonts title: Bebas author name: Amiline body: Cochineal

bookcloth: duo flieder • endpapers • htv: siser infinite galaxy

#ficbinding #fanbinding #mine #teen wolf #sterek #2023 renegade exchange #2023 renegade bound fic exchange #my giftee received this yesterday so i can finally share #ALSO - i picked this up as a pinch hit #so if you're the author and would like a copy #just let me know #(since approval was already gotten by someone else - i didn't actually have any interaction with the author) #but i'm assuming the author already has a copy tbh lol #since i know i've seen a bunch of different versions of this #my offer still stands tho!

[gargoyleandgremlinpress]

Renegade 2023 Bound Exchange: Strike Anywhere by Mad Lori

My recipient for the annual @renegadepublishing bound exchange this year was @sits-bound, which gave me the chance to explore some new Schitt's Creek fic!

Strike Anywhere by @madlori is a Schitt's Creek AU, where Patrick is a firefighter in Toronto, and David is a municipal engineer called in to consult on structural issues at fire scenes. They HATE each other on first sight, fight constantly… and inevitable end up secretly hooking up… and then secretly dating… and then secretly married, too embarrassed to admit it to their coworkers.

I had fun with the theme for this one, and used a blueprint image for the endpapers, and so many flames. So many! I'm really happy with how it turned out in the end, but there was a moment where things VERY MUCH had not gone to plan.

I like how the case turned out in particular! Too bad that I then had to cut the entire text block out of it and add sixty missing pages the day I planned to put it in the mail.

So let me set the scene. It's Dec 28. Exchange books are due in the mail Jan 1. I have spent several hours the day before finishing off stenciling the cover and spine of both books I'm sending, and am taking pictures before I package everything up. I flip to the back of the second book, and… huh. I know I formatted the AO3 metadata at the back of the book. Did I miss a page somehow?

It is then that I realize that something has gone badly wrong. On checking the typeset… my printed book ends at page 216. The typeset ends on page 277.

I got the textblock out of the case, sacrificing the endpapers, but with everything else intact. Realized that my pre-cut textblock paper was still sitting on my desk at work. Decided fuck it, I need to reprint the endpapers anyhow, and skulked in to use the big colour copier, even though I was on vacation.

The signatures fit into the case! Some funky cutting and gluing was required to take out the few duplicate pages and the blank pages from the original, make some tabs out of the edges, and glue it all in.

The mull did not come off as well as the endpapers, but it DID come off.

I cut off the sewn endbands, and the bookmark, glue everything back together, and trek back into work the next day to use the big guillotine and retrim the textblock.

The edges are re-speckled! Sewn endbands would mean forcing the needle through multiple layers of glue, and time is tight, so I made endbands out of bookcloth to match the case.

And! It! Fits! Casing in actually went better the second time.

I DID get it into the mail by the deadline, and it safely arrived in @sits-bound's hands, so now I can share the saga. I still can't believe it fit back in the case.

#fanbinding #fic binding #schitt's creek #renegade bound exchange 2023 #of narrowly averted disasters #and how I am too stubborn to admit defeat

[celestial-sphere-press]

Fanbinding: Royal Flush by astolat

Robb Stark had swept his entire hand of cards off the table, and Tyrion couldn’t see how to make a single play at all.

Its been a long time coming but I am very happy to show off one of the books I made for the annual Renegade Exchange! My giftee was @pleasantboatpress, and when I saw they had Royal Flush on their request list I knew *immediately* which fic I was going to bind. I had IDEAS. And then I got a little overambitious about it.

For this project, I was determined to use leather for the first time (this one uses bonded leather). I wanted full frame gold tooling. I wanted raised cords. I wanted fancy dropcaps. I sewed endbands myself for the first time. and I had a VERY SPECIFIC in my head that then demanded I draw my own art for the cover.

Truly, I love this story lots and I know manda does too! I was so excited to make a book from a story we both went crazy over.

@astolat if you would like a copy, let me know! I would be happy to make one. Thank you so much for the wonderful story!

#renegade exchange 2022 #celestial sphere press #game of thrones #cersei lannister #robb stark #jaime lannister #brienne of tarth #astolat #fanbinding #ficbinding

[cmdonovann]

just occurred to me that i ALSO have not yet posted pics of the books i made for the 2023 renegade exchange??? so heres one from the binding exchange: it's the speech of love series (les mis) as found here on ao3. i learned quite a bit with this book, both typesetting it and printing it, cuz i chose some very thin newsprint for it and had to work around that design choice XD

#bookbinding #ficbinding #renegade bookbinding exchange #les mis

[teaauntybinding]

The bonus book I made my giftee. Thank you Speranza for letting me bind your amazing story.

#renegade bindery #book binding #stab binding #book exchange

[imaginariumpress]

Finally uploading pictures of the books I made for the Fourth Annual Renegade Bindery Exchange! I'm really happy with how they turned out, and my giftee @robins-egg-bindery loved them!

The first is a compilation of the Teen Wolf fanfic series where thou art, that is home by @shanastoryteller. It's done in black goat leather from Siegel, and I used Cricut foil HTV on the cover. The title page was made in Canva because I have zero actual art skills.

The second was another fanfic series compilation, The Unicorn Frappuccino AU by @theplatinthehat, a Doctor Who/Good Omens crossover. The bookcloth is homemade using batik fabric from Joann, and the stickers and author name on the spine were once again done using Cricut, as was the wavy edge of the blue cloth. I forgot to take pictures of the inside before sending it off, but @quandtuniverse was kind enough to give me permission to use their artwork for the second fic:

This whole event was super fun, and I'm so glad I was able to be a part of it! I can't wait to do more events this year!

#renegade bindery #fanbinding #ficbinding #bookbinding #good omens #doctor who #teen wolf #gift exchange

[underlined-fires]

This is My Beloved Monster, the first book I made for the 2022 @renegadepublishing exchange, for Bladespark, who's also the author! It's a Hades (the game) Ares/Thanathos fanfic. It's so good, so please check it out!

I had so much fun with the typesetting and the case building! I just love doing cutouts. (layers! textures! it's fun) The title and cover ornaments are painted on, because I don't own a cutting machine and I was afraid foil wouldn't look good on a larger surface. (I usually get little blank spots when using foil)

#bookbinding #fanbinding #ficbinding #2022 renegade exchange #this was also my first time using thin endpapers without wrinkling #major win! #cam's bookbinding adventures #hesperis' bookbinding adventures

[epitomereally]

Renegade Winter Exchange 2022, part 2/2: You Open Always (Petal by Petal) by birdsofshore

Harry’s not the kind of person who pays for sex. He really isn’t. Until he is.

Thoughts, details, and description behind the cut. The other book I bound for the exchange is here.

For the first book I bound @queercore-curriculum, I wanted to make a book that fit well on their shelf. For this one, I instead went full maximalism & made something totally different than what they make themselves—that’s part of the thrill of an exchange, I think (though it was a risk & I hope you like it!!!)

You Open Always (Petal by Petal) features an extremely hot sex worker Draco, an extremely thirsty Harry, the hottest sex you’ll ever read probably, one of my favorite depictions of a sly Kreacher, and a Grimmauld Place that really, really wants Harry and Draco to get together. It’s one of my favorite fics of all time & I’m so happy to have a copy on my bookshelf too now. In the design, I wanted to mimic Grimmauld Place throwing courting & marriage, etc items at Harry & Draco, so every chapter header has a different illustration of something I could imagine Grimmauld giving them: two birds, figs, strawberries, grapes, etc & led to me asking my partner things like: do you think of pomegranates as a sexual fruit? (The answer is yes). 

For the bind, I made a flat-back oxford hollow. Also inspired by @queercore-curriculum I hand-dyed linen & painted a pair of thrushes on the front and back cover, as well as painting the title on the spine (note: this is the single thing I am most proud of for this bind—I was so nervous the entire time painting). The headband is a front-bead double-color headband with peach and chartreuse. Hope you like both binds, @queercore-curriculum; it was so fun making them for you! Birds, if you’d ever like an author copy of this bind, let me know & I am happy to make and send one to you :) thank you for sharing this lovely fic with our fandom!

Title font: Sabbath Black

Body text: Monarcha

Ornaments: Penmanship Birds

Half-title & chapter numbers: Foglihten

Interior illustration: Heritage Type Co free illustrations

Some notes on process: I always make a ‘test book’ that I keep before sending out a copy to someone else—this is to make sure everything works well & looks good together (which you can see in the photos). The original dye of the linen for the bookcloth turned out a much hotter pink than I intended, so the copy I sent went back in the dying bucket for a more raspberry finish. I also changed endpapers between the test copy & the sent copy. I originally wanted a solid color endpaper because the rest of the book was so maximalist, but didn’t love any of the colors at my local paper store. I do really like the marbled endpaper I chose instead, but it was too thin for a good endpaper & I didn’t want to faff about with creating made endpapers, so I found a solid color I liked at a different art store :)

#my fanbinding #renegade bindery #2022 renegade exchange #birdsofshore #you open always (petal by petal) #maximalist matchmaking grimmauld meet maximalist matchmaking binding #posts i actually wrote

[three--rings]

The second project I did for the Renegade Bindery Holiday Exchange is Against Expectations by @summerofspock​  illustrations by Blue Sparkle aka @asparklethatisblue​

This is a Regency era human AU Good Omens fic in which Aziraphale is female and Crowley is genderqueer and they enter an arranged marriage.  It’s really delightful and so is the EXTENSIVE (multiple per chapter) art that accompanies it.

I wanted to keep the look of this one classic and pseudo-period looking.

 As gardening and flowers are a big theme in the fic I used floral flourishes in the text and the binding itself.  The covers are Italian print with a classic looking plants and birds design, while the endpages are Italian print of horticultural illustration. 

 Originally I intended to use faux leather bookcloth for the spine, but then realized I had JUST enough real leather left from my previous leather bound project to use it.  Which means I only had one shot at doing the title with my heat foil quill pen and thank god ended up happy with it.  I didn’t leave quite enough gap between spine and boards so it’s a little stiff but couldn’t redo it.

 In fact, this whole project was a one shot deal because I had to print the color pages at a copy shop so any flaws in the textblock I just had to live with. (and there are definitely flaws!)

Overall, despite a few flaws (moisture! woes) I’m fairly happy with it. 

#fanbinding #my fanbinding #renegade bindery #good omens #renegade exchange 2022

[little-cat-press]

Ta-da! The set is complete!

Three copies of @nightmares06 and @neonthewrite's Bigfoot's a Hoax! One for me, and one each for the authors.

For the moment, they're all tucked into my bookcase, but soon they shall be on their way to their authors' bookshelves!

Neon will also be receiving the original painting from which the covers were made. I figured that since it's mostly a painting of her character Jacob, I'd give her first dibs if she'd like to have it, and she said she would.

As I mentioned in my post about the first copy, the typeset for this book was done by a fellow Renegade member, for the 2022 typeset exchange. Ruby did a fabulous job with the typesetting, and I particularly love the accent font she picked for the dropcaps.

#little cat press #bookbinding #size: half letter #bound by me #a gift #artist: me #author: neonthewrite #author: nightmares06 #neonthewrite #nightmares06 #typesetting by ruby #typeset exchange 2022 #renegade exchange #ruby #typeset by someone else #gifted to nightmares06 #gifted to neonthewrite

[ashmouthbooks]

Sha Ka Ree by ThereBeWhalesHere

Third and final binding for Annamon (ABT Fanbinding) for the 2022 @renegadepublishing binding exchange ! This is another Kirk/Spock fic, this time they’re stranded together on a planet as well in time.

A 600 page chonker, this is a rounded A5 HB bound in metallic charcoal bookclouth with the title done in silver foil and hot foil quill. I knew I wouldn’t be able to get a sharp and crisply foiled title on there so I decided to lean into the aesthetic and deliberately aim for a tarnished silver look to go with the theme of the fic. The endpapers are pepin press Art Deco, chosen to match the book cloth and because the motif makes me think of search lights. Headbands match the endpapers. I used the same typesetting as for the previous binding but with small adjustments, mainly I used only one Star Trek typeface for titles & running headers/footers. I’m really happy with how this came out!

Bonus: all three books pictured together:

#bookbinding #fanbinding #star trek #spirk #kirkxspock #my bindings #2022 renegade exchange

[wild-woofs-press]

For the 2023 Renegade Bound Fic Exchange (cc: @renegadepublishing).

Fic: My Heart Will Be Your Home by dr_girlfriend (cc: @drgrlfriend) Words: 49,220

fonts title/chapter titles: 56th Street author name: Arkipelago body: Petrona

bookcloth: arrestox eggplant • endpapers

#fanbinding #ficbinding #mine #2023 renegade bound fic exchange #2023 renegade exchange #marvel #mcu #winterhawk #bucky barnes/clint barton

[gargoyleandgremlinpress]

Renegade Typeset Exchange 2023: All Things Old Are New Again

(Me to my wife: "Does the rabbit in this piece of artwork from a century and a half ago say "I am an immortal cultivator who's been pining for thousands of years for my husband to be reincarnated, and also I like bunnies?" My wife: "Yes... yes it does.")

Because I sometimes don't know when to stop, I decided to do TWO fic for axandri in the @renegadepublishing typeset exchange. I know some people find the typesetting part, formatting the file to be printed, either tedious or stressful. I'm no expert, but honestly, I really do enjoy it and it's probably the part of the process I'm most confident with. (Typeset all the things!!)

All Things Old Are New Again by @thefeelswhale is a fic set in the modern world where immortal cultivator Lan Wangji has been waiting for his husband to be reincarnated. Meantime, struggling freelance necromancer Wei Wuxian has been doing camwork on the side to make ends meet... Yes, it is going exactly where you think it is. Delightfully cracktastic, and with a surprising amount of Feelings, this fic was on my to-bind list anyhow, so I was happy to include it as well.

On the summary page, I used two different contrasting fonts, one the same modern san-serif font I was using for text message in the fic for the part that's from WWX's point of view, and the other was a more historical brushstroke font for LWJ's point of view, to compare and contrast the two.

Bunnies play a part in the plot of this fic, so I leaned into the theme hard for chapter headings and scene breaks. Most of the art is from the public domain section of Rawpixel. Also, I found another piece of art from the same artist with TWO rabbits to use as a title for the epilogue chapters.

#fanbinding #ficbinding #typesetting #renegade publishing 2023 typeset exchange #mdzs fic #wangxian fic #all things old are new again #the feels whale #basically an elaborate fic rec

[celestial-sphere-press]

Fanbinding: The Grinch Who Sold Christmas by @forineffablereasons

Anthony J. Crowley, a big-time attorney from London, is sent to small-town Tadfield to close a deal before Christmas that would sell out half of high street to a fancy developer and put him up for partner at his firm. The deal will run the local businesses out and change the landscape of the town forever, but that’s none of Crowley’s business; he’s just doing a job.

But as the town invites him to share in their lives, their hopes, and their holiday celebrations, and as the enigmatic Aziraphale invites him to share in something more, Crowley starts to wonder: if everything has its price, is he still willing to pay what this deal will cost?

Finally posting my other bind from the @renegadepublishing 2022 Exchange! This is "The Grinch Who Sold Christmas" a Good Omens Hallmark Christmas movie AU by darcylindbergh (@forineffablereasons). It was a gift for Lofe (@misanthropiczombie), and I had such a lovely time with it.

I had a lot of fun making this book! This is a three-piece bradel bind, with a spine done in arrestox and boards in ivory Italian cloth from Hollanders. I gave painting a full pattern onto the cloth to create the design (nervewracking on white cloth...), which is inspired by Aziraphale's Heaven's Gate tartan pattern from the show. Fore-edge is a gold alcohol ink sponged on. I had this chunky red and gold lace thread I wanted for the endbands for that touch of Crowley's colors. Since I was already painting in the drop caps for Royal Flush, I decided to paint these ones in as well!

I was very happy to be able to gift copies of this both to my giftee and the author! And I got to do my first Good Omens bind <3.

#fanbinding #celestial sphere press #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #renegade exchange 2022