Bookmaking

I've decided to take another crack at binding the collections of poems (1998-2005) I gave to Hope last September, just before our wedding-- a collection that includes the series of poems that gave this site its name, New Muse.

I'm just not happy with how I bound 'em before. Rather than drill straight down through the entire book, I'm going to sew eight-page foldover folios that themselves get sewn and glued together. It'll be a bit of work-- probably more than the last attempt-- but the book should open better. The problem with the old one is that its binding is so tight that it is hard to read the words towards the inside edges of each page.

This means I have to re-format the darned thing for eight-page folios-- which I'd have to do anyway, since Word dropped all my formatting when I got a new computer.

So, probably going to be writing less lately, as I concentrate more on "publication" than "production."