Ep. 343: What is 'Frérot'?

Bookbinding

Kanazawa has two rivers. The Saigawa and the Asano-gawa (gawa meaning river). Next to the Saigawa near the Sakura Bridge is a restaurant serving good French-fusion food and wine, whiskey, and beer. It is called Frérot.

I fashioned a book for Frérot called Frérot. It is about 120 pages, 7 signatures, and case bound. The right page is lined (faintly) while the left side on alternating pages has small photos of the food found at Frérot. 

It was the first time in a very long time that I made a book with the spine different from the front and back covers (which are the same). It took me awhile to balance everything out. 

Fiction

I’ve been working on The Madrid Marital Murder Mystery because I’ve a self-imposed deadline: sometime in June. I want to finish it, fashion it into a B6-size book, and give it to a beta reader sometime in June.

I finished it! And it’s no longer B6 but A6 because at A6 it’s 90 pages and 5 signatures of 5 folios each. At B6 it was 60 pages of 3 signatures; and I didn’t do well in making the B6 version, so I made the A6 version and will deliver it to a customer next week! Let’s hear it for the panic of deadlines.

A man is killed. (In the book, not in my life. So far. Fingers crossed.) He’s known to be physically abusive to his wife. The wife is arrested and her lawyer proposes a domestic violence defense. However, Joe and Carmen Marsh discover the wife has also beaten her husband. They also find out something odd in the coroner’s autopsy report. Who was killed? Who killed him? Joe and Carmen want to find out because her brother’s revolver was used in the murder. He’s in legal trouble; a problem that could destroy his business.

Talkies / Flicks

This week I have a silent – as in me not speaking; there is music – video of the creation of a B6-size, 120ish page, notebook with lines on the right page, photos of food on the left page, and covered in book cloth (not a collage). Yes, it’s the book I made in the Bookbinding section of this podcast.

It can be seen here: What is Frérot? 

First, I must apologize. I didn’t film the entire construction. I was more worried about casing in the textblock correctly than making sure I filmed it. So, the winner was a proper casing in rather than a viral video. You can still enjoy the music, though.

Books

Still pushing The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street. Please check out one of these fine distributors of digital books to learn how Rie and Nagi spent a night together without being sexually or physically abusive. 

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