Book cover design that sells in thumbnails and on shelves.
A reader browsing Amazon sees your cover at 80 by 80 pixels. If it does not stop them in that moment, they move on. Your cover is not decoration. It is the first and often only message your book sends to the reader who would love it.
We design covers that work in the market your book lives in. Genre-accurate, professionally executed, and finished in every format you need from the first delivery.
Readers judge books by their covers. They are right to.
Genre conventions exist because they work. Readers in a specific genre have trained expectations. A romance cover signals its promise with specific fonts, colour palettes, and imagery. A thriller does the same. When a cover breaks those signals, readers assume the book is not for them and keep scrolling.
We research your specific genre and sub-genre before we design anything. We look at the bestselling titles in your exact category, identify what visual conventions are working right now, and build a cover that signals correctly while making your title stand out within those conventions.
A cover that wins design awards but confuses genre signals sells fewer books than a cover that looks instantly like what readers already love. We design for sales first, and the best designs happen to look exceptional too.
The thumbnail test
Every concept is reviewed at 80x80 pixels — the size it appears in Amazon search results. If it does not work there, we redesign until it does.
Genre signal first
Readers make a decision in under two seconds. Your cover must communicate genre immediately, before a single word is read.
Print and digital are different
A print cover has a spine, a back cover, and a full wrap. A digital cover is a single face. We design both from the beginning, not as an afterthought.
Cover to spine to screen. Every format covered.
Book cover design for print and digital formats
One cover designed for both print (full wrap with spine and back) and digital (front face for ebook thumbnails and online retail). Genre conventions researched and applied before we draw a single line.
Interior typesetting and layout
Clean, readable interiors for paperback and hardback formats. Proper chapter headings, drop caps, running headers, and print-ready margins. Readers notice when an interior feels cheap. Ours never do.
Author brand identity
A consistent visual identity: logo, colour palette, typography, and usage rules. Readers who recognise your brand at a glance are readers who buy the next book without needing to think about it.
Promotional graphics for social media and press kits
Cover reveal graphics, launch announcement tiles, Instagram and Facebook post templates, and press kit images at the right dimensions for every platform. Launch day is not the time to be making graphics.
Series branding for multi-book authors
Consistent visual identity across two, five, or twenty books. Readers browsing a series need to see the connection instantly. We design systems that scale, not one-off covers that happen to look similar.
Print-ready files for all retail formats
Properly formatted print files for Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, and all major print-on-demand platforms. Bleed, resolution, colour profile, spine width calculated from your page count. Ready to upload.
From brief to print-ready in four steps.
Brief and genre research
We learn your genre, your comparable titles, your reader, and your own vision for the book. We research what is working in your exact category before we design anything.
First concept at 48 hours
You receive a first concept within 48 hours of brief sign-off. Not a sketch. A finished concept with typography, imagery, and colour in place.
Revisions until right
We iterate until you are happy. No revision cap on first-round feedback. Final files delivered in all formats once approved.
Print-ready delivery
You receive every file you need: print wrap, digital front, social assets, and all source files in the correct specifications for each platform.
“The cover they designed got more compliments than the writing, and the writing won an award. They understood my genre before I finished explaining it. First concept landed in 48 hours and it was already close. Three revisions later it was perfect.”
BookOrbits Client — Literary Fiction Author, UK
Ready for a cover that actually sells your book?
Tell us your genre, your book, and what you are hoping for. We will show you what is possible.