Bookbinding DIY kit for Heated Rivalry

This DIY bookbinding kit has all the tools and materials you need to make your Heated Rivalry special edition at home. You will also receive a bookbinding e-guide with your order that tells you detailed instructions on how to make your book.

Your kit comes with:

• Book boards (grey board) 2mm cut to size for front cover, back cover, and spine of Heated Rivalry
• Paper cut to size for jacket making
• T spacer
• Bone folder
• Small bottle of high quality bookbinding glue
• Silicone bookbinding brushes (wide and narrow)
• Black bookcloth fabric
• Fabric scissors
• corner spacer
• Mini lint roller
• Pre-cut and prepared vinyl covers and spine
• Ribbon
• Hockey charm and accessories for attachment
• jewellery pliers for attaching charm
• End-bands
• Mole to re-inforce the spine
• Spine card cut to size for aesthetic
• Endpapers cut to size (UK or US book size)
• Craft iron or mini heat press (UK PLUG ONLY +£30)

You will need to purchase or make a DIY book press. You can easily use things at home to make one for free, and I explain how to do this in the bookbinding guide.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have never done bookbinding before, please don't expect perfection! It takes a lot of practice to understand the techniques and get used to each tedious step. It usually takes about 20 hours to bookbind one book, but with these kits it should take you about 5-8 hours to build because all the prep has been done.

The endpapers (inside covers) are artistic renditions made by the cover artist @artseasiren of topless Shane and Ilya. In my original bookbind which I initially did for fun and not to sell, I used the GQ photoshoot images of Connor and Hudson because I adore them and my bookbind was for personal use. We were inspired by the photoshoot for inspiration, but please be aware for copyright reasons I cannot sell the original GQ photos inside the bookbind. All original literary content remains the property of the right holder, author Rachel Reid.

I’m so excited to offer these kits as a way for you to make your own special edition at home! I will look into doing live virtual classes in late 2026 so that we can bookbind together in real time and you can ask questions live during the process.

Starlin xx