🎙️ Welcome back to The Mythic Mic Podcast, where books become works of art, printers develop personalities, and missing out on one special edition can inspire an entire business.

This week, host Sara Santillan sits down with Sheree, the artist and owner behind Perfectly Edged, to discuss sprayed edges, collector editions, and building one of the most recognizable businesses in the bookish community.

Sheree shares how her search for a Fourth Wing special edition led her to experiment with spraying her own books, and how encouragement from a lifelong friend convinced her to begin selling them. She opens up about moving from hand-sprayed edges to professional printing, teaching herself digital design, growing through social media, and reaching the point where her husband left his job to join the business full time.

We also dive into the work behind every Perfectly Edged design, from creating artwork and running test prints to wrapping, clamping, printing, and preparing books for customers. Sheree discusses commissions, preorder planning, discounted seconds, artist collaborations, rep applications, and the challenges of choosing titles that will support the time and expense required. She also shares her dreams of creating a full publisher special edition and perhaps opening her own bookshop one day.

🎨 How does a single edge design move from an idea to a finished collector’s book?
📚 What does it take for an artist-led business to thrive in an increasingly crowded special-edition market?
✨ And how did one missed copy of Fourth Wing help launch Perfectly Edged?

This is a must-listen for special-edition collectors, Bookstagrammers, indie authors, aspiring bookish entrepreneurs, and anyone fascinated by the art and business behind beautiful books.

🔥 IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:
✨ How missing out on a Fourth Wing special edition inspired Perfectly Edged.
✨ Learning to hand-spray books and turning a hobby into a business.
✨ Moving from manual spraying to professional edge printing.
✨ The artwork, testing, wrapping, clamping, and printing behind each design.
✨ Why creating a single custom book can take several hours.
✨ What happens to books with misprints, scratches, or imperfect edges.
✨ How authors can commission artwork or printed edges for their books.
✨ Using preorders and batch printing to manage inventory and turnaround times.
✨ Choosing which popular, traditional, and indie titles to feature.
✨ Janet, the enormous printer responsible for the company’s edges and headaches.
✨ Collaborating with artists, including the Hurricane Wars project with Bluelyboo.
✨ What Sheree considers when selecting Perfectly Edged representatives.
✨ Social media growth, changing algorithms, and building customer loyalty.
✨ The cost and risk involved in producing a complete special edition.
✨ Sheree’s dreams of working directly with a publisher and opening a bookshop.
✨ Balancing art, business ownership, motherhood, marathon training, and writing.
✨ Throne of Glass ambitions, favorite designs, licensing challenges, and rapid-fire questions.

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