All-Consuming assumes physical form!

[ratbones]

So first of all I guess I should say I'm alive, I'm doing alright, and I'm beginning to get back to some normalcy, even as the world...well. You know. (Did I mention that my car's engine was destroyed by an inconvenient mouse? It was still cheaper to fix it than get a new one, and, well, I LIKE my old Civic, but I had a little mental breakdown when it happened (twinning!) and then I went months without it. It's home now and it brought the missing piece of my brain with it.) I started in earnest on a backburnered (novella-length) fic idea in January and since I usually can only work on one thing at a time, this means my final little push of editing for Holy Thorn is delayed. Maybe I'll fit it in in the midst somewhere - I'm trying to find the exact right amount to push myself. Same old story there. I think I'm a little bit afraid of taking real steps to make the jump from ~amateur~ author to ~pro~ author. Um. Who am I kidding. I am very afraid. So I'm gathering my strength.

But the real reason for the post is this: fanbinder hellebored has done me the MASSIVE compliment of binding a physical author copy of All-Consuming for me. It is sexy and clad in leather, just like Zhao Yunlan, and I cannot wait to put my paws on it. The process is detailed in their post here along with photos. I love the look of it - helle was really able to manifest the vibe and mood of the fic into reality with this, and I couldn't be more pleased. Also I just learned a lot about how books are put together - I know so much about the words part and, it turns out, so little about everything else.

I've had a few friends suggest to me that I could have copies of my long fics printed for myself, but I don't know how to begin to make a book look good, even if I "just" had to typeset and come up with some kind of digital cover design. It would be so so difficult for me to generate something even halfway decent. So to have something so much better than decent exist in the world just because helle wanted to make it...well, it's tremendously meaningful and I'm gonna treasure it till I die, basically. It elevates the contents of the story to be clothed so beautifully, just like a really good outfit makes anyone hotter. I might even read it.

Comments

[tinny]

*hugs* That book looks great, and that post they made about the process is great, too!! And, yes, I feel you on the "omg a physical copy, and a beautiful one" is a world away from anything digital.

[ratbones]

*hugs* Yeah, it's so cool! Having an idea of what work went into it and how it came to be only makes it more impressive.