Book Cover Design

A cover that sells at thumbnail size

Readers meet your book as a two-centimetre image in a list of forty. Genre signalling has to be instant, the title legible at that size, and the spine width calculated from your actual page count and paper stock or the print file will be rejected.

from $199 · free consultation · full copyright included

4.5/5 from 8,503 clients

Unlimited revisions

on Gold and above

100% ownership

copyright transferred

24-hour

first concepts

In-house team

based in the USA

Illustration & Specialty

What book cover design includes

Self-published authors, small presses and businesses publishing a lead-generation book.

  • Front cover concepts in genre
  • Full wraparound jacket with calculated spine
  • Back cover blurb and barcode layout
  • Kindle and ePub cover exports
  • Thumbnail legibility test
  • Print-ready PDF to your printer's spec

Drawn for you

Original work every time. Nothing templated, nothing resold to anyone else.

Fast turnaround

First work back within 24 to 48 hours on most briefs, sooner if you have a deadline.

Revisions until right

No counter running in the background. We keep going until you are happy with it.

You own everything

Full copyright transferred in writing, with every source file, on delivery.

How it works

Four steps, start to finish

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Share Your Brief

Tell us what your business does and who buys from you, in your own words. It is free and you are not committing to anything.

Fill in the brief form
02

Designs Back Fast

Our designers start straight away and send you real options to look at, often the same day.

03

Refine Together

Point at the one you like and tell us what to change. We keep adjusting it until you are happy with it.

04

Own Every File

You get every file you need for print and web, plus the rights in writing. The design is yours for good.

Included every time

The same three things in every package

Whatever you spend, these never change.

Free consultation first

Talk the project through with a designer before you pay anything. No card required, no obligation to go ahead.

You own it outright

Copyright transfers to you on delivery, along with the editable source files. No licence to renew and nothing to pay again later.

100% original, or it is free

Every mark is drawn from scratch for your business. We never resell a concept and never work from a template library.

Free consultation · No card required · Mon to Fri, 11 AM to 8 PM

Before you order

Book Cover Design questions

From your final page count and the printer's paper specification. It cannot be finalised until the interior is laid out, which is why cover and interior are usually done together.

Yes. Readers browse by genre cues, and a cover that ignores them reads as unprofessional regardless of how good the design is on its own.

Yes, with a shared template so the books read as a set on a shelf while remaining individually distinguishable.

Ready to start your book cover design project?

Tell us about the business in a sentence or two. We come back with a plan, a timeline and one fixed price, usually within a business day.

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