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DESIGN for WRITERS

  • Home
  • About
  • Cover design
  • Book layout
  • Web design
  • Testimonials
  • Contact
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  • Home
  • About
  • Cover design
  • Book layout
  • Web design
  • Testimonials
  • Contact
Cover design

Make your book stand out from the crowd, with beautiful cover design by Design for Writers.

Beautiful, effective and perfectly prepared covers come as standard with our guaranteed cover design. Our process is proven over almost a decade and more than a thousand covers, so you’re in safe hands and good company.

Cover design by Design for Writers for A Million To One by Tony Faggioli, the second book in a supernatural thriller trilogy
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Into the Sky, a YA fantasy novel
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Prices

Cover design packages

When it comes to cover design, we know that one size doesn’t fit all. That’s why we offer a range of cover design packages to suit your needs and budget. Select your local currency (quotes in alternative currencies available on request) then choose the package that works for you. Either way, we’ve got you covered.

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Cover Express

You’ve identified an image, thought about the fonts, and know exactly what sort of cover you want. But you need the professionals to make it sparkle and get it ready for market. Cover Express is the option for you.
$ 299
  • Ebook file included (print upgrade available)
  • Pre-design questionnaire to outline your needs
  • You provide the imagery, or select an image from Shutterstock if required
  • Opportunity to tweak before completion
  • Ebook retailer cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
Contact us

Cover Pro

You’ll collaborate with us through a detailed pre-design brief to inform our research before we create your bespoke cover options. You’ll choose your favourite and we’ll tweak it to perfection.
$ 499
  • Ebook and print file included
  • Choose from two bespoke options
  • Inclusive royalty-free imagery
  • Extensive pre-design briefing process.
  • Make unlimited tweaks to your chosen design, if required
  • Printer and ebook retail cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
Contact us
Popular

Cover Deluxe

We’ll dive deep together through an extensive pre-design brief, before presenting four bespoke options. We’ll tweak your favourite to perfection and include marketing graphics to promote your book.
$ 799
  • Ebook and print file included
  • Choose from four bespoke options
  • Inclusive royalty-free imagery
  • Extensive pre-design briefing process, including optional consult call
  • Make unlimited tweaks to your chosen design, if required
  • Printer and ebook retail cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
  • Choose three marketing graphics to promote your book online
Contact us

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Cover Express

You’ve identified an image, thought about the fonts, and know exactly what sort of cover you want. But you need the professionals to make it sparkle and get it ready for market. Cover Express is the option for you.
€ 229
  • Ebook file included (print upgrade available)
  • Pre-design questionnaire to outline your needs
  • You provide the imagery, or select an image from Shutterstock if required
  • Opportunity to tweak before completion
  • Ebook retailer cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
Contact us

Cover Pro

You’ll collaborate with us through a detailed pre-design brief to inform our research before we create your bespoke cover options. You’ll choose your favourite and we’ll tweak it to perfection.
€ 399
  • Ebook and print file included
  • Choose from two bespoke options
  • Inclusive royalty-free imagery
  • Extensive pre-design briefing process.
  • Make unlimited tweaks to your chosen design, if required
  • Printer and ebook retail cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
Contact us
Popular

Cover Deluxe

We’ll dive deep together through an extensive pre-design brief, before presenting four bespoke options. We’ll tweak your favourite to perfection and include marketing graphics to promote your book.
€ 639
  • Ebook and print file included
  • Choose from four bespoke options
  • Inclusive royalty-free imagery
  • Extensive pre-design briefing process, including optional consult call
  • Make unlimited tweaks to your chosen design, if required
  • Printer and ebook retail cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
  • Choose three marketing graphics to promote your book online
Contact us

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Cover Express

You’ve identified an image, thought about the fonts, and know exactly what sort of cover you want. But you need the professionals to make it sparkle and get it ready for market. Cover Express is the option for you.
£ 199
  • Ebook file included (print upgrade available)
  • Pre-design questionnaire to outline your needs
  • You provide the imagery, or select an image from Shutterstock if required
  • Opportunity to tweak before completion
  • Ebook retailer cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
Contact us

Cover Pro

You’ll collaborate with us through a detailed pre-design brief to inform our research before we create your bespoke cover options. You’ll choose your favourite and we’ll tweak it to perfection.
£ 349
  • Ebook and print file included
  • Choose from two bespoke options
  • Inclusive royalty-free imagery
  • Extensive pre-design briefing process.
  • Make unlimited tweaks to your chosen design, if required
  • Printer and ebook retail cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
Contact us
Popular

Cover Deluxe

We’ll dive deep together through an extensive pre-design brief, before presenting four bespoke options. We’ll tweak your favourite to perfection and include marketing graphics to promote your book.
£ 549
  • Ebook and print file included
  • Choose from four bespoke options
  • Inclusive royalty-free imagery
  • Extensive pre-design briefing process, including optional consult call
  • Make unlimited tweaks to your chosen design, if required
  • Printer and ebook retail cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
  • Choose three marketing graphics to promote your book online
Contact us

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Cover Express
Cover Pro
Cover Deluxe
Cover Express

Cover Express

You’ve identified an image, thought about the fonts, and know exactly what sort of cover you want. But you need the professionals to make it sparkle and get it ready for market. Cover Express is the option for you.
$ 299
  • Ebook file included (print upgrade available)
  • Pre-design questionnaire to outline your needs
  • You provide the imagery, or select an image from Shutterstock if required
  • Opportunity to tweak before completion
  • Ebook retailer cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
Contact us

Cover Pro

Cover Pro

You’ll collaborate with us through a detailed pre-design brief to inform our research before we create your bespoke cover options. You’ll choose your favourite and we’ll tweak it to perfection.
$ 499
  • Ebook and print file included
  • Choose from two bespoke options
  • Inclusive royalty-free imagery
  • Extensive pre-design briefing process.
  • Make unlimited tweaks to your chosen design, if required
  • Printer and ebook retail cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
Contact us
Popular

Cover Deluxe

Cover Deluxe

We’ll dive deep together through an extensive pre-design brief, before presenting four bespoke options. We’ll tweak your favourite to perfection and include marketing graphics to promote your book.
$ 799
  • Ebook and print file included
  • Choose from four bespoke options
  • Inclusive royalty-free imagery
  • Extensive pre-design briefing process, including optional consult call
  • Make unlimited tweaks to your chosen design, if required
  • Printer and ebook retail cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
  • Choose three marketing graphics to promote your book online
Contact us

€

Cover Express
Cover Pro
Cover Deluxe
Cover Express

Cover Express

You’ve identified an image, thought about the fonts, and know exactly what sort of cover you want. But you need the professionals to make it sparkle and get it ready for market. Cover Express is the option for you.
€ 229
  • Ebook file included (print upgrade available)
  • Pre-design questionnaire to outline your needs
  • You provide the imagery, or select an image from Shutterstock if required
  • Opportunity to tweak before completion
  • Ebook retailer cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
Contact us

Cover Pro

Cover Pro

You’ll collaborate with us through a detailed pre-design brief to inform our research before we create your bespoke cover options. You’ll choose your favourite and we’ll tweak it to perfection.
€ 399
  • Ebook and print file included
  • Choose from two bespoke options
  • Inclusive royalty-free imagery
  • Extensive pre-design briefing process.
  • Make unlimited tweaks to your chosen design, if required
  • Printer and ebook retail cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
Contact us
Popular

Cover Deluxe

Cover Deluxe

We’ll dive deep together through an extensive pre-design brief, before presenting four bespoke options. We’ll tweak your favourite to perfection and include marketing graphics to promote your book.
€ 639
  • Ebook and print file included
  • Choose from four bespoke options
  • Inclusive royalty-free imagery
  • Extensive pre-design briefing process, including optional consult call
  • Make unlimited tweaks to your chosen design, if required
  • Printer and ebook retail cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
  • Choose three marketing graphics to promote your book online
Contact us

£

Cover Express
Cover Pro
Cover Deluxe
Cover Express

Cover Express

You’ve identified an image, thought about the fonts, and know exactly what sort of cover you want. But you need the professionals to make it sparkle and get it ready for market. Cover Express is the option for you.
£ 199
  • Ebook file included (print upgrade available)
  • Pre-design questionnaire to outline your needs
  • You provide the imagery, or select an image from Shutterstock if required
  • Opportunity to tweak before completion
  • Ebook retailer cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
Contact us

Cover Pro

Cover Pro

You’ll collaborate with us through a detailed pre-design brief to inform our research before we create your bespoke cover options. You’ll choose your favourite and we’ll tweak it to perfection.
£ 349
  • Ebook and print file included
  • Choose from two bespoke options
  • Inclusive royalty-free imagery
  • Extensive pre-design briefing process.
  • Make unlimited tweaks to your chosen design, if required
  • Printer and ebook retail cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
Contact us
Popular

Cover Deluxe

Cover Deluxe

We’ll dive deep together through an extensive pre-design brief, before presenting four bespoke options. We’ll tweak your favourite to perfection and include marketing graphics to promote your book.
£ 549
  • Ebook and print file included
  • Choose from four bespoke options
  • Inclusive royalty-free imagery
  • Extensive pre-design briefing process, including optional consult call
  • Make unlimited tweaks to your chosen design, if required
  • Printer and ebook retail cover file guarantee
  • Free promotional images, including a 3D visualisation of your book
  • Choose three marketing graphics to promote your book online
Contact us

Deep engagement

The White Glove Publishing Package

Engage Design for Writers as your creative partner across the entire publishing journey and benefit from a truly integrated approach. We’ll build a relationship and develop your brand across ebook, print, digital and marketing. We’ll even upload your book to your chosen retailers on your behalf, leaving you free to focus on the most important part of all: writing.

  • A beautiful cover with our Cover Deluxe package
  • Professional interior formatting with our Layout Pro package
  • Stress-free publishing: we'll upload your book to major retailers
  • Customised author webpage to help you make a splash
  • Promotional graphics bundle to help promote your book
Enquire for details
How we work

Tried and tested process

Because Design for Writers have developed a friendly, bullet-proof process over almost a decade collaborating with authors just like you, we’re ready to hit the ground running and give you the book cover design you deserve. We work closely with our authors, using carefully targeted questions to get to the heart of every book we cover. Our clients tell us again and again how effective this process is, helping them to focus on what really matters, often drawing out angles they’d not previously considered. What this means is peace of mind for you, and the knowledge that your book will have a professional quality cover aimed squarely at your target readership from day one.

Client testimony

Don't just take our word for it

“I first used Design for Writers back in 2010. They have a knack for bridging the gap between what you can articulate about your book and the cover for it that's better than anything you'd imagined. The whole process is painless and Design for Writers guide you every step of the way. Your book's cover is your 'storefront window' online - most readers will make a snap decision on that alone - and with a Design for Writers package, you'll have maximised every inch of it. I can't recommend them enough - I'm still doing it, even now!”​
Catherine Ryan HowardAuthor of Self-Printed and other books
Catherine Ryan Howard
Cover design

Frequently asked questions

Answers to some of the most common queries you might have…

How long does it take to design a book cover?

Long enough to get it just right is the short answer. Our Express cover design service is rapid because there is less research and development required. We may be able turn that around for you within days. Our bespoke cover designs take more time, as you'd expect. As a guide you should expect that process to take around ten days. This gives you time to complete the briefing and gives us time to consult with you and then explore your design fully. But we do advise early booking to be sure that your space is saved in our bookings calendar. If you know that you'll be needing a book design soon, we suggest giving a minimum of two months notice as we do get booked up in advance.

What if I need a faster turnaround to meet a deadline?

We recognise that in some cases clients require a faster turnaround, and we offer an expedited service for times like that. We will determine this fee on a case-by-case basis according to existing workloads, turnaround time and the complexity of the project. If you need fast turnaround, just drop us a note on our contact page. We’ll always do what we can to help (and be honest and tell you if we can't).

Will any additional fees be incurred, such as for images or fonts?​

No. Our quoted prices include the cost of images from the market-leading library at Shutterstock.com and fonts from our extensive existing library. These are known as “assets“. If a client has a very specific requirement to use their own assets, then of course those would not be included in our fee. If it became apparent during our discussions that some exceptional asset, custom illustration, or additional work not covered by the agreement might be required, we would discuss that together and make a decision. So we will never make any additional charges without your full knowledge and agreement in advance. We don't like nasty surprises and we like nothing to be hidden. We're in the business of building long-term relationships with our authors, not making a quick buck.

Will I own the finished cover/interior design?

Absolutely. We retain no ownership or copyright claim whatsoever on the finished design once you have made payment. The finished cover design is yours to use to package and promote your book. It is yours, not ours or anyone else’s. We will keep archive backups of your files for a period of time, and we may use them as part of our portfolio and to promote our services to other authors and publishers unless you expressly tell us not to do so (in which case we will respect that wish).

Can I sell your design to my editor/agent/someone else?

We design for clients and publishers directly, and on completion our clients have sole, exclusive, non-transferrable use of the final design. Designs are not for resale (but see our availability to publishing professionals for white label services, outlined below).

Does Design for Writers offer white label services to publishing professionals?

Absolutely. We work with a number of publishers, editors and other industry professionals to add book design to their offering as their unofficial in-house design team. We can be seen or unseen in that process, but either way you and your clients will benefit from our professional design services.

I’ve heard that my cover needs to ‘pop’ on the Kindle store. Do you do this?

What we do, simply, is design a cover which will show your book off, evoke its content and press the buttons of your target market. That comes with experience and that's what you buy from us. Sometimes this will mean a minimalistic cover that is perfectly legible at a tiny black and white thumbnail. Sometimes it might mean something else. Customers browsing an ebook store will know whether care and professionalism has gone into a book cover without needing to see every detail. Your cover will help to get their attention, and your writing will close the deal. There is no single ingredient which makes a cover work, be that a font, a huge title, or whatever else. A cover works as a package and every one is different. And of course, we are here to advise…all final decisions are yours.

Let's begin

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