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photo of two octavo letter sized hand bound books. The cover is black, with silver foil. The title is "EAT MY WORDS AND THEN SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE" by silverapples, with the cover illustration being a neck, tilted back, with a solid band around the throat with a "H" pendant. The back has "Gideon prides herself on being able to get anyone she wants in bed. But when it comes to Harrow, she’ll have to do some giving first." in foilALT
Photo of spines of the books described before, they say EAY MY WORDS AND THEN SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE but the text is small and the words are somewhat hard to readALT
photo showing the endpaper, which is swirling black and orangeALT
Photo showing the title page inside the book, which looks the same as the cover but printed on paperALT
Photo showing the table of contents, with eat my words and then swallow your pride and denial aint just a river in egyptALT

Eat My Words and Then Swallow your Pride by silverapples (18+)

+ its sequel fic, Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt (18+)

Gideon prides herself on being able to get anyone she wants in bed. But when it comes to Harrow, she’ll have to do some giving first.

I’m SO excited to have bound this series as part of @renegadeguild’s Fanfic Writer’s Appreciation Day (August 21) event, it is one of my absolute favorite fics and such a love letter to butch subs/bottoms everywhere.

some rambling under the cut

i forgot to take good progress pics here because besides cutting the pages/the octavo size, this bind felt very standard/nothing much new was tried, construction wise – but I DID draw the cover art with my mouse in photoshop because i couldn’t find good royalty free art that fit the Vibe and this fic deserves a bangin cover.

I went with Gideon being collared by Harrow for the design because like, yeah. Of course I did. She deserves this.

I think one of the main artistic things I would change in the future (besides photographing it against a more contrasting background OOPS) is I think I’d want a thinner tip for the foiling, I think the summary on the back turned out okay but the spine text was a bit small for the tip I had, so it is a bit hard to read.

I really like the octavo size for shorter fics, especially for fics in the 5k-15k range depending on font size/art/etc. I wouldn’t want to do a standard folio or even quarto with something this short just due to like… it would turn out magazine thin, but it looks cute as hell when turned pocket sized so I’m excited to have opened up a new realm of fics to bind!