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Issue No. 01

Marked Copy

Departments

Collections

Five standing collections. Each one exists because a specific part of the work deserved its own shelf.

  • No. 01

    The Draft

    For the part nobody sees.

    The first pass is ugly on purpose. This collection is for the stretch of a book where the only measure of progress is that the page is longer than it was yesterday. Plain garments, no slogans that would embarrass you in a coffee shop, cut for sitting still for four hours.

    04 objects in stock

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  • No. 02

    Revision Department

    The second pass is where the book actually happens.

    Named for the work of cutting. Marks, proofreading notation, the vocabulary of editors — used the way a printer would use it, not the way a novelty store would. For writers who know that a manuscript is finished when it stops bleeding.

    In preparation — nothing published yet

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  • No. 03

    Independent Operations

    For writers who do the whole job.

    Self-publishers, small-press founders, people who write the book and then format it, sell it, and ship it. Cover design, distribution, royalties, the unglamorous logistics of running a one-person publishing house.

    01 object in stock

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  • No. 04

    Romance Department

    The most-read genre, treated seriously.

    Romance carries the industry and gets condescended to for it. This collection is written from inside the genre — tropes, deadlines, series arcs, reader expectations — with affection and no apology.

    03 objects in stock

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  • No. 05

    The Desk

    Objects, not apparel.

    The small durable things that live where you work: surfaces, carriers, the objects that stay on the desk between drafts. Chosen because they hold up to daily use, not because they photograph well once.

    06 objects in stock

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