Dracula
I've taken a copy of Dracula from Project Gutenberg, typeset it using Affinity Studio, and printed the book using 120gsm book bound paper from active-papers.co.uk. That's not an endorcement, I've found the service to be consistently flakey, but the materials are good.
I used Dracula as my first leather project. I ordered a beginner leather pack from Hewitt's, and chose the leather offcut I thought suited the project the most. Then I read marking on the reverse side of the red leather, and it said Seal Skiver. I'm really hoping this is Goat treated to make look like seal, because every time I see the book, I hear seal arf noises in my head.
I am happy with the way this book came out, over all. I think lessons learned would be to buy a wider sheet of HTV gold paper, than dealing with the thin strips I was working with. I would also look at reducing either the paper GSM, or the whitespace in the book, to not make the book 665 pages.
I did have to use some leather paint to touch up marks left by some heavy handed blind tooling, but they came out alright. I'm also looking forward to experimenting with my pear shaped tooling to create some shading in future works.