Print and eBook design for independent authors

Congrats, Shana Bailey!
UppityBrunch, Shana’s delightfully clever and charming cookbook is for sale now! It might be the most beautiful one we’ve ever seen, and we’re proud to have helped her put it all together, from cover to interior, in paperback, hardback, and eBook editions. Great brunch recipes and an inspiring story too.

Book Four is available!
We’ve been proudly designing Matthew Wolf’s Ronin Saga for years, and we’re excited to announce that Tides of Fate, book four of the series, is done! Go Matt!

Fine Lines Winter 2020 is done!
David Martin has been publishing the works of amateurs and pros alike for 29 3/4 years. Poetry, essays, photographs, art — we love getting our hands on Fine Lines each quarter. One more makes thirty years, David!
Pro book designers that work for you.
Welcome to our real design studio, staffed by artists who love books and know the art of making yours look as good as the biggest publishers. (We do books for them too.) No “meatgrinders” here, computers squirting out template after template. We’ve been designing print books 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 and great coffee. We’re a happy bunch to work with.

Print book design
eBook design

Book cover design
We work with all major publishers, including:






Our sounds-crazy design guarantee
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 price the same day, along with any tips or suggestions we might have once we’ve seen it. If you’re not thrilled with what we offer, there’s no obligation. You can just say, “no thanks.”
The latest from our book design blog
Where Civility Ends
Did Facebook and Twitter break the world? We used to be nice to each other (at least face to face) and we managed to disagree without throwing punches (mostly). Have we lost civility forever? It’s those darned crazy kids these days, and their shoot-em-up video games,...
It’s Emma period.
See that? I haven't written a thing and already it looks like I goofed. The marketing geniuses for the new movie Emma. decided to put a period in the title. So it's Emma., not Emma. Emma.. See that? It's nearly impossible even to write about. Still confused? The issue...
It’s just a hyphen. Right?
Adjectives describe something in more detail. A green car. A first job. A compound adjective isn't any fancier, it just takes two words to do one job. A blue-green car. Some first-hand experience. Really, we intend it to be a single descriptor—one word, really—so we...