TEMPO RUBATO, BY SPODUMENE
Tempo Rubato, by SpodumeneI am so proud of this one. It’s another handful of firsts, both simple (designing chapter headings!) and more complex (incorporating fanart and figuring out how to juggle the print quality of text vs image!) – and the story itself is just phenomenal. An enormous thank you to Spodumene, @beccadrawing, and @lordsofthebuns for letting me bind it all ❤️ Two small easter eggs I included in the design: the music on the cover is a reproduction of Liszt’s original “Sonata in B Minor” manuscript – a piece Lan Wangji plays in a key scene – and the title page features a piano arrangement of “Wuji,” aka the theme song to The Untamed.
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Linger in the Sun, by etymologyplayground It’s done! And hoo boy was this book a Learning Experience. I used a lot of new equipment (guess who’s got a bookbinding guillotine now, AW YEAH), I tried a lot of new things, and while I’m very pleased with the end result, there were also plenty of nights where I gently laid my head on my work table and prayed for something – anything!
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