The Book

My attempt at producing a sample hand-bound copy of Arctic Raoul in its current state was a surprising success, although it used most of my blank paper and a worrying amount of my current laser cartridge! I spent ages fiddling around trying to get it to print pages two-up in 'realistic' proportions and whitespace on an A4 sheet, as opposed to the standard self-publishing approach of simply printing everything as an A5 page with minimal margins in order to reduce page count and simplify matters :-p

( bookbinding )

( synopsis )

I think that by the looks of it I shall probably have to omit the entire existence of Lancard from the synopsis, and quite possibly the whole Raoul/d'Artois and Raoul/Philippe relationships as well, leaving room only for Raoul's interactions with Christine and with Erik :-O It's also very difficult to describe the complexity of Christine's interactions with Erik in captivity, especially for a potential reader who doesn't have any idea that Erik is seriously mentally unstable at this point, and is not acquainted with his weird mixture of arrogance and cringing subservience...