Book Design Services
We offer a full selection of book design services to get your manuscript formatted for printing or eBook publishing and into the hands of your readers.
Personalized design services. Offering elegant design, latest trends, and Amazon/KDP requirements.
Cover Design Services
A collaborative design process for your book cover, including back cover and spine.
Page Design Services
Full-service design and typesetting for your book's interior.
eBook Design Services
eBook conversion services for Kindle and other digital formats.
Fine Details
Photo Retouching
Custom editing and retouching of your photos to get them fine-tuned for print.
Registration
Library of Congress registration, acquiring ISBNs, and Books-in-Print registration to assure your book is registered properly.
Editorial Services
Editing and proofreading services to tighten up your manuscript.
The Extra Mile
Add-on services that extend beyond the book design process.
Print Buying
Coordination with your printer to get the best price and service for your project, and to make sure things stay on schedule.
Marketing Services
To help sell your book we create compelling marketing materials for social, email, website, and retailer promotion.
The Book Design Process
An overview of the steps and inner workings of the book design and production process.
Book Cover Design
Armed with a rough manuscript and some key information about the book, we can get the cover design process underway. You will be provided with one or more cover concepts to review. We'll then gather your feedback and make adjustments to get a final front cover you are in love with. At this point, we can generate a high-res graphic you can use to begin your marketing efforts for your book.
Delivery of Final Manuscript
Before sending us your manuscript, you will want to finalize it as much as possible. We strongly encourage hiring a copyeditor to tighten things up on a broader level, and a proofreader to catch typos and punctuation that may have slipped through the cracks. Any changes that come after this will need to be added into the production process.
Page Design
You will be provided a sampling of pages for you to review the fonts and text sizes suggested for the body text, headings, and chapter pages, as well as any other textual and visual elements in the book. We will gather your feedback and make adjustments to get a final design template (a road map of sorts) we'll use to typeset your book.
Typesetting
It is now time to go through your manuscript page-by-page and format your book using the final, approved page design template, magically transforming your manuscript into what will be your finished book pages. Along the way, we will perform some general clean-up tasks, and provide a proof in PDF format for you to review and proofread.
Proofread
At this time, you will read through your book one more time, which is now formatted as it will look in your printed book. No doubt some unseen typos and errors will jump off the page—they always do, and it is all part of the process. Better yet, pass it over to your proofreader for one more review. Mark up any edits, either digitally or on a set of printed pages, and pass them to us to get fixed up.
Type Edits and Changes
Here we take the compiled edits you have marked up and go back into the layout to make any necessary changes to the first proof. Once finished, you will be provided another proof for review and approval. Repeat the step above, if necessary. This is the time to make any final changes before we go to print.
Full Cover Design
Now is the time to send us your copy for the back cover, endorsements, images, and author biography to build the full cover. This includes the back cover and spine for softcover books, as well as dust jacket flaps, case cover, and endpapers for more complex projects. We will collaborate on any edits and changes needed to get a final cover file for your printer.
Final Approval
This is the final review process before files are sent to print. Send us confirmation that everything looks great, and we will prep the final files and send them to your printer. They will likely require one more approval before books are finally printed.
eBook Conversion
Now that your print book is complete, we can complete the process of converting your book to digital format. We will retain as much of the formatting from the print version as possible and provide an online proof for review and approval. Final industry-standard Kindle files will be provided to you for uploading to the book retailers of your choice.
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Consultation
If you have questions about self-publishing or want to talk more about our book design services, we offer free consultations. Please fill out the form below. Questions on active or upcoming projects are always free, please email or call us.
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