The Joy of Text, or, An Interest In Bookbinding

“Wait,” you say, “Bookbinding? You mostly have e-books, isn’t that kind of old-school for that?”

Yes… but.

Everyone who’s read my blog (or knows me) knows that I have written one novel, am working on a second, and have plans for a couple more. But eventually, one of my hopes is to be able to go to a convention and have a table and sell copies. (I also have ideas for buttons and pins, but that’s for later.)

I’ve also had some interest in bookbinding lying dormant for a while. And so, these things collide.

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Happy Independent Bookstore Day!

Today is Independent Bookstore Day! It’s a day to celebrate booksellers outside of the corporate ranks, the little place in your town, the used bookstore on the side street, places like that.

It’s also a place to celebrate online independent stores, like those on itch.io, selling you books that you might not be able to find in the big stores.

For example, if you go to the Taeliana Books itch.io store you can buy my independently created book The Ballad of the Grey Swan in DRM-free epub and PDF formats.

And if you go to the top level of itch.io, there’s a lot of other authors there selling their books. Mine might not be your cup of tea, but maybe someone else’s book could be!

Keep the indy bookstores alive!

Do not quote the deep magic to me. I was there when it was written.