Print and eBook design for independent authors
Let us help you publish your eBook or print book and get it out into the world! We’ll polish your ideas into the gleaming pearl you know it can be. We make it easy—even fun! Let’s get started.
Let our pro book designers turn your stories into gold.
Welcome to our real live book design studio, staffed by award-winning artists who love books and know the craft of making yours look as good as the biggest publishers. (We do books for them too.) No “AI” here, no machines pooping out template after template like sausage. We’ve been designing print books by hand for 30 years, and creating custom eBooks since they were invented.
You have a question? We’re quick to answer all emails. Or call us on the phone. Our studio has big bright windows, cheerful people, sunny flowers, great coffee, and puppies Gus and Danny. Besides being good at all this, we’re fun to work with.
Print book design
Why wait for a fancy agent to discover you? We’ll create a print interior design for you that looks as good as the big houses.
eBook design
Get your book onto every major eBook device, including Kindle, iBooks, Kobo and Nook. We make it easy.
Book cover design
Oh yes, people do judge a book by its cover. With a beautiful custom book cover, you’ll sell many more books.
We work with all major publishers, including:
~ Meet our latest successful authors ~
We Fell for This One!
We were thrilled to do the whole works on The Dumb Zone: the cover, the interior, and the eBook to match. The author designed the laughs. Know anybody into climbing? This hilarious new spoof by Leah Carson is on sale now.
Best Seller!
By the end of its first week, Arden was number one in Shakespearean literature/drama world-wide, number one in all its categories in the UK, and number two in Conspiracy Thrillers and British Historical Fiction in the US. Five star reviews all around. Great start!
Vroooom!
What fun we had designing this memoir, covering the 61-year span of the Ghost Chasers. Written by the daughter of one founder after discovering a trove of memorabilia, it’s full of photos, news clippings, and great stories. Gritty, dirty, Midwestern good times and good people. 8.5×11″ on Amazon.
Our sounds-crazy design guarantee
“Thought since you did the design work on my book you would like to know that it just received the National Gold Medal from eLit Awards for best in its category! Thank you for everything.”
“I attempted formatting my novel on my own. The result was embarrassing. MC took care of everything and I am now a very happy man. I cannot recommend them highly enough.”
“It is PERFECT!! Thank you so much and I will be recommending your book formatting service, as well as contacting you for my second book, which I’m already working on!”
Free guaranteed price quote.
Email us a copy of your manuscript, or use this handy form. It doesn’t have to be a final draft, just a fair representation of your book. Any format is fine. We look over each book individually to provide an accurate, fair quote. We’ll return a guaranteed book design price the same day, along with tips and suggestions we can offer once we’ve seen it. If you’re not thrilled, there’s no obligation. You can just say, “no thanks.”
The latest from our book design blog
Apostrophes: Your Missing Link
When to use ’em, and how to make ’em go the right way. Sadly, most word processors don‘t know their it’s from a hole in the ground. Even expensive publishing software messes up. Why? Because they are not human. Being the human is your job. An apostrophe is used to...
Do You Need an ISBN?
You did the hard part. You wrote your book. Now it's time to publish it. But what's this? Vendors want an ISBN from you. What even is that? Do you really need one? Where do you get it? ISBNs look kind of scary because they're so legal-ish and computer-y. And that...
What size should an eBook cover be?
You're converting your book into an eBook. It needs a cover installed. What dimensions should that eBook cover be? Here's a short answer: it should be 1400 pixels wide, and 2100 pixels tall. There you go. If you're happy with that, go get another cup of coffee and...