Stepan Chizhov
@stepanchizhov.bsky.social
Author of The Dark Lady’s Guide to Villainy:
https://royalroad.com/fiction/105229
Tools for Royal Road authors: https://stepan.chizhov.com/author-tools/
Toolmaker, interviewer, and owner at iBookBinding
https://ibookbinding.com/
https://royalroad.com/fiction/105229
Tools for Royal Road authors: https://stepan.chizhov.com/author-tools/
Toolmaker, interviewer, and owner at iBookBinding
https://ibookbinding.com/
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Everybody loves a workshop tour!
Here's Teodora Poiata's studio
#bookbinding #craft #handmade #studio #workshop
Here's Teodora Poiata's studio
#bookbinding #craft #handmade #studio #workshop
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Join us for a live talk next Saturday!
Every year, fellows of Designer Bookbinders prepare six unique bindings for the award ceremony of the Booker Prize. This time, we invited Hannah Brown, a British bookbinder, to discuss her binding with us. Hannah's book was 'The Rest of Our Lives' by Ben Markovits.
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Join us for a live talk next Saturday!
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What a great example of use of our magnetic corner clamps for boxmaking!
But also, I think @coseacasodesign produce some of the most creative boxmaking videos on Instagram, please follow them :)
#bookbinding #boxmaking #clamp #magnet #craft #handmade
But also, I think @coseacasodesign produce some of the most creative boxmaking videos on Instagram, please follow them :)
#bookbinding #boxmaking #clamp #magnet #craft #handmade
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I'm extending my paternal leave until the end of winter. But, at the same time, I thought it would be wrong to deny iBookBinding's customers a chance to order some holiday season gifts for themselves and their friends. So, only for one month, iBookBinding's shop is back!
October 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I'm extending my paternal leave until the end of winter. But, at the same time, I thought it would be wrong to deny iBookBinding's customers a chance to order some holiday season gifts for themselves and their friends. So, only for one month, iBookBinding's shop is back!
Familiar sensation, isn't it?
Yeah, I had to share this here
September 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Familiar sensation, isn't it?
Another tool for Royal Road authors and readers. Both for exploration of similar books to read and searching for shoutout candidates: reverse search Others Also Liked.
That's a section on each book's page that may list other books of a similar size that share followers.
discord.gg/xvw9vbvrwj
That's a section on each book's page that may list other books of a similar size that share followers.
discord.gg/xvw9vbvrwj
August 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Another tool for Royal Road authors and readers. Both for exploration of similar books to read and searching for shoutout candidates: reverse search Others Also Liked.
That's a section on each book's page that may list other books of a similar size that share followers.
discord.gg/xvw9vbvrwj
That's a section on each book's page that may list other books of a similar size that share followers.
discord.gg/xvw9vbvrwj
Posted the first chapter of my book to a subreddit, here's the first reaction 🙂
I'd appreciate your support there
I'd appreciate your support there
Posted the first chapter of the story to a subreddit, here's the first reaction 🙂
August 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Posted the first chapter of my book to a subreddit, here's the first reaction 🙂
I'd appreciate your support there
I'd appreciate your support there
Almost paternal leave time!
iBookBinding is closing its shop at least until October for a paternal leave!
You will still be able to buy our tools through an ever growing list of partners!
The color range you see in the video was chosen in collaboration with @corinne_vend_des_trucs (Belgium)
You will still be able to buy our tools through an ever growing list of partners!
The color range you see in the video was chosen in collaboration with @corinne_vend_des_trucs (Belgium)
July 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Almost paternal leave time!
Reposted by Stepan Chizhov
June 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Stepan Chizhov
Always a pleasure to see some new videos from Prelo Prints!
If you are interested in watching a long talk with Jorge Lar, you can do that on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=30fN...
#printing #history #handmade #printingpress #craft #antique
If you are interested in watching a long talk with Jorge Lar, you can do that on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=30fN...
#printing #history #handmade #printingpress #craft #antique
June 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Always a pleasure to see some new videos from Prelo Prints!
If you are interested in watching a long talk with Jorge Lar, you can do that on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=30fN...
#printing #history #handmade #printingpress #craft #antique
If you are interested in watching a long talk with Jorge Lar, you can do that on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=30fN...
#printing #history #handmade #printingpress #craft #antique
What an amazing press!
Check out this beauty!
And it's available for sale in our shop!
store.ibookbinding.com/collections/...
What kinds of presses do you have in your shops? Share a video and tag us! :)
#bookbinding #press #antique #craft #handmade
And it's available for sale in our shop!
store.ibookbinding.com/collections/...
What kinds of presses do you have in your shops? Share a video and tag us! :)
#bookbinding #press #antique #craft #handmade
June 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
What an amazing press!
Just got a first ever review on Amazon ☺️
OK, I have to share this!
That's for a spin-off that is available on Amazon!
www.amazon.com/Leveling-Eve...
That's for a spin-off that is available on Amazon!
www.amazon.com/Leveling-Eve...
June 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Just got a first ever review on Amazon ☺️
In the other news, my Royal Road analytical tools have this fun measuring thingy now :)
stepan.chizhov.com/author-tools/
stepan.chizhov.com/author-tools/
June 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
In the other news, my Royal Road analytical tools have this fun measuring thingy now :)
stepan.chizhov.com/author-tools/
stepan.chizhov.com/author-tools/
For a short time, my new novella is free on Amazon (on Kindle)
It's a spin-off of the novel I'm publishing chapter by chapter on Royal Road and follows three psychotherapists from Bath in the first weeks after the Earth is plunged into magical madness.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCFYHKSW
It's a spin-off of the novel I'm publishing chapter by chapter on Royal Road and follows three psychotherapists from Bath in the first weeks after the Earth is plunged into magical madness.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCFYHKSW
[Leveling] Isn’t Everything ([Systemic] Side Effects, Book 1) (The Dark Lady’s World 2)
Amazon.com: [Leveling] Isn’t Everything ([Systemic] Side Effects, Book 1) (The Dark Lady’s World 2) eBook : Chizhov, Stepan: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
For a short time, my new novella is free on Amazon (on Kindle)
It's a spin-off of the novel I'm publishing chapter by chapter on Royal Road and follows three psychotherapists from Bath in the first weeks after the Earth is plunged into magical madness.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCFYHKSW
It's a spin-off of the novel I'm publishing chapter by chapter on Royal Road and follows three psychotherapists from Bath in the first weeks after the Earth is plunged into magical madness.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCFYHKSW
I just have to post it here :)
June 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I just have to post it here :)
Reposted by Stepan Chizhov
Always great to see our tools in use! This time, by @corinne_vend_des_trucs - and that's one of the shops where you can buy our tools if you live in the EU!
corinne-vend-des-trucs.fun?s=ibookbindi...
#bookbinding #craft #handmade #3dprintedtools #3dprinting
corinne-vend-des-trucs.fun?s=ibookbindi...
#bookbinding #craft #handmade #3dprintedtools #3dprinting
June 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Always great to see our tools in use! This time, by @corinne_vend_des_trucs - and that's one of the shops where you can buy our tools if you live in the EU!
corinne-vend-des-trucs.fun?s=ibookbindi...
#bookbinding #craft #handmade #3dprintedtools #3dprinting
corinne-vend-des-trucs.fun?s=ibookbindi...
#bookbinding #craft #handmade #3dprintedtools #3dprinting
Always an exciting moment: when a newly made marbled paper is revealed!
We just updated the stocks of Daniela Prina's marbled paper! And as Stepan is leaving for his paternal leave in August, this may be the last opportunity to buy this amazing paper from us until late autumn!
June 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Always an exciting moment: when a newly made marbled paper is revealed!
Reposted by Stepan Chizhov
How books with round spines are made?
We just had Dimitris (@dimitris_bookbinding_corner) live with an iBookBinding Class dedicated to making simple finishing tools. But it's always a pleasure to share his stuff. So, here's some backing work :)
#bookbinding #handmade #timelapse #craft #workshop
We just had Dimitris (@dimitris_bookbinding_corner) live with an iBookBinding Class dedicated to making simple finishing tools. But it's always a pleasure to share his stuff. So, here's some backing work :)
#bookbinding #handmade #timelapse #craft #workshop
June 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
How books with round spines are made?
We just had Dimitris (@dimitris_bookbinding_corner) live with an iBookBinding Class dedicated to making simple finishing tools. But it's always a pleasure to share his stuff. So, here's some backing work :)
#bookbinding #handmade #timelapse #craft #workshop
We just had Dimitris (@dimitris_bookbinding_corner) live with an iBookBinding Class dedicated to making simple finishing tools. But it's always a pleasure to share his stuff. So, here's some backing work :)
#bookbinding #handmade #timelapse #craft #workshop
На этом у меня всё.
ИИ победил.
ИИ победил.
May 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
На этом у меня всё.
ИИ победил.
ИИ победил.
A new live class this Saturday!
We return with a new live class!
Dimitris Koutsipetsidis has been a guest on our podcast and live stream a few times already. We discussed his tools more than once as well. Both in the context of the bindings he makes and separately.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Hq...
#bookbinding #handmade #craft
Dimitris Koutsipetsidis has been a guest on our podcast and live stream a few times already. We discussed his tools more than once as well. Both in the context of the bindings he makes and separately.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Hq...
#bookbinding #handmade #craft
May 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A new live class this Saturday!
It's always fun making reels like this one. Especially when you can include videos from happy bookbinders who use your tools :)
Our magnetic clamps are already used by hundreds of bookbinders, other artisans, and hobbyists of all kinds all over the world. From Australia and New Zealand to Brazil and Argentina. From Germany and Sweden to Mexico and the US. And, of course, the UK, where iBookBinding resides since 2023.
May 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's always fun making reels like this one. Especially when you can include videos from happy bookbinders who use your tools :)
So, Book 1 of The Dark Lady's Guide to Villainy is fully posted on Patreon and will be done on Royal Road on a few weeks. The experience was absolutely amazing, as was the engagement of the readers!
OK, I just have to share this review. It's impossible not to share it!
And, yes, Book 1 is complete on Patreon
patreon.com/stepanchizhov
And, yes, Book 1 is complete on Patreon
patreon.com/stepanchizhov
May 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
So, Book 1 of The Dark Lady's Guide to Villainy is fully posted on Patreon and will be done on Royal Road on a few weeks. The experience was absolutely amazing, as was the engagement of the readers!
Here's an achievement that's on a whole new level. I became the target of a meme!
Many thanks to u/TheTrojanAlchemist for creating and posting it on reddit :)
Many thanks to u/TheTrojanAlchemist for creating and posting it on reddit :)
May 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Here's an achievement that's on a whole new level. I became the target of a meme!
Many thanks to u/TheTrojanAlchemist for creating and posting it on reddit :)
Many thanks to u/TheTrojanAlchemist for creating and posting it on reddit :)
Reposted by Stepan Chizhov
Looks like a proper view count for an announcement :)
May 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Looks like a proper view count for an announcement :)