arts and crafts

Encasing multiple signatures between covers makes books look so very … booklike. This is how the hardcovers we read all the time are bound. Something cool about managing to do it myself. (Also: Guess it was a good thing not to give up when my first attempt at this fell apart utterly after all. Because […]

I continue to play with bookbinding, which is a not-bad way to decompress after turning in the draft of Faerie Winter, in between working on a short story and not catching up on my email. (Umm, sorry about that. If I owe you email, I’ll try to get to it soon.)After doing a couple of

So at Kindling Words West last year, Alison James had us all make our own bound notebooks using Japanese stab binding. I generally think of myself as a not-crafty person (the glue and glitter were the scariest part of being a scout leader for me), and so was surprised at how, well, satisfying it was