A book excerpt

[chipotle]

Since one person asked and a couple others might be interested, this is what the layout for the book looks like now, in a PDF of pages 3-9 (which includes the table of contents and the first three pages of the title story).

Coyotes Howl Excerpt

Comments

[chipotle.livejournal.com]

The ornaments are all actually glyphs in the typeface that I'm using (Chaparral). It's a very cool typeface, really--sort of a modern take on Southwestern influence, but subtle enough to be a body face rather than a decorative one.

Yes, the margin on the binding side is a little smaller; it's a slightly more traditional approach to a text block size than you often see now. It'll be even smaller when it's bound, although looking at other Sofawolf books I doubt it'll lose more than a quarter of an inch (it's actually 3.5 picas, a little over a half an inch).

The lines on all the facing pages line up, because of my previously mentioned manual page balancing by adding/subtracting lines from each spread. The ending point varies from spread to spread (although as little as possible), but not between two facing pages.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

So you went ahead and did it all by hand? I should be disturbed by that but I can be just as obsessive. :)

I'll have to see how the tighter inner margin looks when it's actually bound.