Macey Levington

@macey.bsky.social

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SRE by day, writer by night, tea-fueled queer forest cryptid at all hours. words at englishmace.com, rep'd by Kurestin Armada, writes as Macey Levington & Jennifer Mace. the cloud is, alas, my fault once again >:(

A photograph of the very small book being propped open on a piano by a small golden peacock. Inside the book, one can see an intricate set of end papers with very colorful flowers and peacocks.
A photograph of Mount Rainier seen from a plane, framed by foothills and the blue summer sky.
A photo of seatac from a plane on the ground. It is sunny.
an airport selfie of the Macey on an escalation in a green dress and grey mask
A photograph of a stack of nonfiction books. From the top down, these include: black tudors by Miranda Kaufmann, against the grain by James c Scott, Orwell's roses by Rebecca solnit, dark archives by Megan Rosenbloom, cannibalism by Bill Shutt, and salt by Mark kurlansky.
A mock-up cover of the novel 'Blood of Queens' by Macey Levington, forthcoming in Summer 2027 from Saga Press. The cover features dramatic white text on a dark grey background. There are red blood droplets falling from the capital letters. A small banner on the bottom right reads 'cover to be revealed.'
A photograph of a workbench covered in supplies for pamphlet making. Two different pamphlets are in the process of being made in multiple copies. One is a yellow pamphlet titled cityscapes, and the other is a blue pamphlet titled ocean-hearted. There are multiple copies of each, and tools such as an all, a pair of scissors, and several balls of string all spread out over a blue cutting mat.
A photograph of the book "Dungeon crawler Carl" by Matt Dinniman propped up against a stuffed Cerberus. A small lucky cat figurine and a strange rainbow crochet pig frame the book.
A photograph of Shelley Parker-Chan's novel She Who Became The Sun, posed with a wooden hair stick shaped like a sword. It is being held up by a wooden poseable hand mannequin which is draped with a small golden sun pendant.
A photograph of a recipe for yellow squash and red quinoa salad
A photograph of a gorgeous pale blue journal with gold detailing. The detailing shows a stack of books and an archway of golden roses. in the foreground, there is a golden cup of tea.
An aerial photograph of a large craft mat. Five book blocks with end bands can be seen from above, standing upright on their pages. Above them, there are five decorated bradel covers ready to be glued to the book blocks. The covers have gold book cloth spines and blue floral paper covers which look a little bit like clouds. Each book block is perhaps 3 inches long.
A stack of five little rough edged naked book blocks waiting to be trimmed. They are sitting on a cutting mat, which shows that the short edge is roughly 2 in long.
A photograph of a hand holding up a stripped yellow hardcover copy of the book she who became the sun by Shelly Parker-Chan
A photograph of a stack of three nonfiction books balanced on a hand with the sidewalk in the background. From the top down: in the shadow of the sword by Tom holland, the surgeon the midwife the quack by Alanna Skuse, and cruel optimism by Berlant
A photograph of a passage from the book Rites of Peace, roughly as summarized in the skeet (but far denser and more academic).
A screenshot of a three-paragraph 'FBI Privacy Statement and Privacy Notice'. One sentence is highlighted. It reads: "The FBI may retain your fingerprints and associated information/biometrics in NGI after the completion of this application and, while retained, your fingerprints may continue to be compared against other fingerprints submitted to or retained by NGI."
A photograph of a truly awful sentence in the book "Rites of Peace." It reads: "While the Tsar of Russia was theoretically an autocrat with no limits on his power, the overwhelming majority of educated Russians concentrated in the army, the administration, at court, in St Petersburg or in Moscow represented the sole agency through which the state could function, and without its good will the autocrat was literally powerless."
A photograph of a hardcover (signed first edition) copy of Natalie Zina Walschots' book Villain, sitting above and slightly behind a wooden trophy with a computer chip embedded in the front. Sitting in the empty top of the wooden trophy is a small wooden awl. IYKYK.
A pile of extremely large intimidating history textbooks. The one on top is titled rights of peace: the fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna. The second one is titled dancing to the precipice: the life of lucie de la tour du pin, eyewitness to an era. The third is Catherine the Great.
A close-up photograph of the same book, showing that several pages are glued about a centimeter together near the spine. There are visible chunks of glue extending into the book in several other places throughout.
A close up of the end of a hardcover book with a pink cover
A photograph of Django Wexler's novel, how to become the dark lord and die trying
A photograph of Laura Cranehill's novel, wife shaped bodies, propped up next to a small wooden mushroom figurine with a tiny Fox.
A pile of books on a desk. From top to bottom: Root Rot by Saskia Nislow, Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh, All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan, Motheater by Linda H Codega, Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill, How To Become The Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler, and Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots.
A photomanip of a young woman in a dark room wearing regency dress. She is looking to one side. In place of her face, we see the profile of a skull.
A photograph of the novel 'Strange Beasts of China' by Yan Ge, perched on some embroidery with a pair of hand-bound smaller books in the background.
A photograph of the cover of Motheater by Linda H. Codega, a complex tangle of leaves and mothes with a blue jay front and center and two skulls tangled in the plants.
a short looping video of a sketched horse head turning into a dragon head and back
A sunset photograph from the top of Redcar cliffs, with fields on the left tumbling down into a sandy beach and long storm waves on the right. In the far distance wind turbines can be seen out at sea.
A photograph of the novel 'The Fisherman' by John Langan, a dark slim paperback with a dramatic stormy cover scene of waves breaking on a shore.
a photo of a tired-looking macey in headphones gesturing at an intricately colour-coded whiteboard laying out a five-chapter diagram of characters and scenes titled 'hampton court palace'
I photograph of the cover of a book, featuring a woman in old fashioned silk dress. The author is Caroline Moorehead. The book is titled dancing to the precipice, with a subtitle of 'The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, eyewitness to an era.'
A photograph of two snow capped mountains from a plane
A photograph of a text with the following sentence highlighted: "When Karásek was launching his literary career in the 1890s, juridical and medical discourses in Central and Eastern Europe were finding a powerful obsession with social degeneration and civilizational collapse, of which homosexuality was deemed a prime symptom"
A photograph of an extremely small handmade book with a quarter balanced on top for scale. The book has a yellow book cloth spine and a dark painting of florals as the cover. It is not quite 3 in tall.
A photograph of an old fashioned upright piano in dark wood. Above it is a picture wall covered in slightly Gothic artwork. Next to the piano is a set of shelves, the other side of the shelves is a harp.
A photograph of a heavy black cast iron book press. The base is decorated with golden paint, and this paint also outlines the curlicues on the arched bridge.
A photograph of the front cover of the blue ocean-hearted booklet. It features a swirly title outline, the author name Macey Levington, and a bottom border of stylized waves.
The back cover of two zines, one ocean themed in blue, and the other City themed in yellow. Both list an author website: www.englishmace.com
A photograph of several skeins of colorful thread sat on top of a blue pamphlet in the middle of construction. The pamphlet is titled Oceanhearted and the author name is Macey Levington. In the background, a similar but yellow pamphlet can be seen, titled Cityscapes.
A photograph of a set of collated pages laid out on a chopping board next to a bone folder and a craft knife. In the background, a completed pamphlet in yellow cardstock can be seen, and a ball of orange thread. The top page on the stack features a poem titled 'to ash' on one side, and a table of contents on the other.
A photograph of three small cream-colored books, titled 'the wild geese'. They have been presented on a wooden board in front of a tiny vase of flowers.
A low angled photograph peeking inside an improvised book press made of two chopping boards squeezed together by f-clamps. Inside the book press, a little green book can be seen. It is very compressed.
Another photograph of an end band in the same color scheme. The small core wrap of the second yellow band is a bit uneven, and a little bit of the main core can be seen between threads sometimes.
A close-up photograph of a book in progress of being made. The photo displays a hand zone double core end band in deep blue and Royal purple with flashes of golden yellow separating the main two colors. The leather core is still visible and has not yet been cut away. The book has no covers.
A photograph taken from a plane window; Mount Rainier can be seen through the clouds framed by the plane's wing.
A photograph of a pile of four handbound books. Two of them are tiny bound text blocks with French link stitch in exposed linen thread, in need of cases. The middle book is a Coptic stitch exposed spine bind with blue stitching and a blue and white flower cover. At the bottom of the pile, a full folio-sized text block bound in French link stitch over tapes. It, too, is in need of a case.
Photograph of a handmade notebook with blue and white floral covers.
Photograph of a freshly bound folio size book with tapes.
A photograph of two tiny books, with the sewn edges exposed.
A side on photograph of a tiny book block, displaying stitches and many signatures.
A photograph of a baking tray full of flapjack mixture, a mix of oats, raspberries, butter, golden syrup, and sugar.
Photograph of a kitchen counter where Macey is preparing beginner bookbinding kits. It is covered in assorted tools and Ziploc bags, the tools include awls, needles, knives, etc.
A photograph of an uncovered text block. At the top of the picture, a hand sewn endband in alternating strands of pink, cream, and green silk thread. The tie downs are visible, tiny threads dipping into each signature of the book to hold everything in place.
A photograph of the same book several hours later. It has been placed in an improvised book press, and covered with mull which is glued in place. A bottle of PVA glue is also visible. The mull conceals and binds the previously visible stitching.
A photograph of a book in the process of being sown. Four packets of pages are shown, shown under three linen tapes with a Criss-Cross French link stitch. The book is held over a somewhat battered cutting mat.
A photograph of the back of Macy's sofa with two improvised book presses, each made of a pair of chopping boards clamped together with hardware store clamps.