Calvado: A Deadly Love Story Rough Draft

I used a piece of cardboard and cased in a rough draft of a great novel called Calvado: A Deadly Love Story about a beautiful medical student who doubles as a fashion model. And the man with the mysterious disease that almost kills her. Anyway, Two people have read it so far and neither one caught the big, Big, plot hole. So I'm going to spend January fixing the hole and hopefully get the ebook version up on Smashwords.com before the end of January. The hardcover, handmade version will be ready about then, too.

The pictures are front cover, the back open, and the first, edited, page. Please enjoy your holidays as I toil over the rewrite. Ha!

Rough Draft Novel Bound: The Idiot Runs

This is my novel, The Idiot Runs. Autobiographical? I think not, my friend. It's a rough draft complete with some of my corrections. I wanted to practice casing in, so I cased it in. Odd, isn't it, how practicing doing something is better than reading about doing something? It's cased in rough (rough draft, see?) white paper with no indication for front or back. Similar to the novel itself which goes from present day Oregon coast to Venice in the 1400s and Jensen's print shop. See why it isn't autobiographical? It's a love story, of course. The main experiment was making very thin covers so that the novel itself is flexible. A success, I think.

Medieval Book Completed and Named

In the past few weeks I've been slowly putting together a book. I know, what an odd thing for a bookbinder to be doing. However, this is a new style for me and only the second one at that. A little thought was involved. Yeah, very little - I'll explain that in a moment. First, the book.

Jumps with Snow is its name because it was completed during a heavy snow storm. It is 140 pages, B6, blank journal. "Blank journal" means the bookmaker was too lazy to print anything, even lines, on the paper. OR, in my case, eager to try out a new binding. In this case the binding is a rounded back with raised cords.

Overall, an enjoyable experience wherein I learned a lot. First mistake, put one endpapers in upside down. Second mistake, put the endpapers on the mull instead of Under the mull, thus hiding it from the book's user. A habit of mine I should break. Or use some thought? Yes, thinking would be good. Major mistake, kind of, was making too few signatures. It only has seven whereas if it were 15 or so, it would look better. Allis Experience and Training.

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Cooking Up a Medieval Book? Maybe

I'm starting, slowly, to make a book like I've never made before. The signatures are sewn on raised cords, then the spine is rounded for a 1 cm book board. After I'm finished the spine should have bumps on it.

Here are three pictures of this glorious work in progress. The first problem I've encountered is I have made too few signatures. Seven is too few. It would be better to have maybe 15 at least. Maybe even twenty.

Moon Eclipse blank book

200 pages, rounded back, my first, Gorgeous endpapers. B6 in size. Excellent experience and topped it off with fine, cold 酒. Wonderful day.