I've finished my tenth book! I've made four hardcovers, and now six softcovers. This one is slightly different from the others in that I designed the cover from scratch:

The Space Between Dreams is an odd one to recommend. It's a cult classic with, I think, a very small cult, only available on the Internet Archive as far as I know.

It's a lot. I read it right around the time I first moved to the city and I think it managed to capture a lot of what amazed me about the place. It's extremely high energy, it's weird, it's great, it's probably problematic, and it's weird. A friend (who would know) was confident it was written with the assistance of hallucinogens (which, considering how much of a role they play in the plot, was probably obvious).

The philosophical stuff is fascinating, the worldbuilding choices even more so. The characters are great. I find myself hesitant to recommend it, yet I think about it often and reread it every few years. And I very much wanted a physical copy to exist.

I've mostly covered the process for softcover bookbinding here. I ran the pdf through this tool and printed it out. Then I followed the Penrose Press Pretty Perfect Paperback guide and printed the cover on canvas using a color plotter printer. I cut it out with an Xacto knife, pre-creased it, and glued it to the book block.

I've finally got the oversizing for the covers figured out (8.6x5.6"), and just had to adjust the last project's cover for the thicker spine on this book. Overall I'm pleased with the results:

You can get the files I used for this project (intended to be printed on 8.5x11" letter paper) over here.

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