A well-designed book is critical to your success. As much work as you put into your manuscript, it may not get the attention it deserves without professional formatting. When there are hundreds of books on a shelf or web page, people will naturally trust the well-designed ones and notice them first and foremost.
JohnEdgar.Design will help you provide the best possible reading experience for your book’s audience, and help give you the highest possible chance for a customer to fall in love with you at first sight.
Book Cover Design
Our Cover Designs combine graphic elements, textures, and photo blending to create a unified piece that complements and emphasizes your book’s content. We design your cover to grab the reader’s attention and to convey the subject of the book. It is the curb appeal that brings them into the home your words create.
Your book cover is the first and best sales tool you possess. It instantly conveys the critical thoughts, messages, and images that sum up your book. On those crowded bookshelves, you need to stand out from everyone else — a beautiful book cover created by the JohnEdgar.Design will be the professional impression your audience is looking for.
Why Choose JohnEdgar.Design Instead Of A Larger Firm?
You get a one on one relationship with a professional book designer that will work with your input and create a custom layout to match the theme and message of your book. No templates, just custom design by a real-life designer who knows your name and listens to you and your story.
Another plus, we send you proofs throughout the design process to review and give feedback. We make sure your design maintains your voice as much as the words themselves do.
We stand behind our work with the book publishing industry’s only 100% quality guarantee! We are with you for the life of your book. Your story matters to us.
Book Interior Design
Interior Book Design (Manuscript Formatting)
Professionally formatted text is an essential part of book design. A clear hierarchy and readable typeface help create a layout that is inviting to your reader.
Every section you include in your manuscript (foreword, dedication, chapters, etc.) will be custom formatted to create a polished book. We will send a PDF proof for approval before printing. We offer both eBook manuscript formatting and Print manuscript formatting (Black Text or Color Text Design).
Black&White Interior Designs Include:
A customized layout meeting industry standards and coordinated with your printer/publisher to ensure quality and familiarity to readers, which delivers the ultimate reading experience and makes it easy for them to curl up with your story.
Perfect for Novels, Short Fiction, Non-Fiction, Biographies, and Poetry books with few important detailed images in the manuscript.
Black text printing only. Text needing to set itself apart from the standard text will be grayscale.
Images within the text will be printed in grayscale.
Color Interior Designs Include:
Combination of text, graphics, and color photos for the most significant visual impact.
Perfect for image-heavy works like Art & Photography books, Cookbooks, and Children’s books.
Text and Images will be printed in full color.
Combined Options
Premium Package Options
Your Own Project Coordinator to Expertly Guide Your Book Project Through the Design Process and your first prints. We help your journey be a little less lonely and overwhelming.
Project Coordinator
Creative Consulting & Niche Style Researching making sure your design fits into the readers expectations and still stands out as a reflection of your writing and story.
Creative Consulting & Niche Style Researching
Delivery. We take on the task of uploading your book files and metadata to any one of the major Online vendors or a publishing house.
Delivery To Publisher
With our services you make an upfront payment to get you book ready to publish. The royalty and rights from any book sales are 100% yours.
Full Royalties Rights
You get an encourager, motivator, guru and friend. One who invests in you and the success of your book. Someone who would love to hear updates from time to time. We want to brag about our friend the author and their book that is changing the world.
An Often Overlooked Service.
Custom High-end Book Cover & Interior Design by an Expert Designer, You have a single professional dedicated to your project and your story. They remain with you for the duration of your project.
Custom High-End Book Cover & Interior Design
Image Sourcing Services to insure you have the royalty free images your design needs to make a maximum impact.
Image Sourcing Services
Master Files. We make sure you have Publication Ready Master Files for POD & Digital outlets. These are for your records and if in the future you wish to send them. We also make sure you have the “native build files” from your project. Allowing you to have any professional make changes to the files.
Master Files For POD & Digital
ISBNs. We’ll acquire and register a ISBN with Bowker (the official source in the US) for both your Print Book and your Digital Book. This is required by most legitimate booksellers online and brick&mortar shops, including Amazon, BooksAMillion and many more. We include two ISBN’s which if purchased separately would have a value of $250.
ISBNs For Your Books
Your Own Project Coordinator to Expertly Guide Your Book Project Through the Design Process and your first prints. We help your journey be a little less lonely and overwhelming.
Project Coordinator
We research and create a list of keywords related to your book and the subject of the manuscript. Using words that are commonly associated with your books niche we generate a list of “key words used in search engines” when looking for similar topics. You can use these words to Optimize your advertising for Search Engines.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Word List
Creative Consulting & Niche Style Researching making sure your design fits into the readers expectations and still stands out as a reflection of your writing and story.
Creative Consulting & Niche Style Researching
Delivery. We take on the task of uploading your book files and metadata to any one of the major Online vendors or a publishing house.
Delivery To Publisher
With our services you make an upfront payment to get you book ready to publish. The royalty and rights from any book sales are 100% yours.
Full Royalties Rights
You get an encourager, motivator, guru and friend. One who invests in you and the success of your book. Someone who would love to hear updates from time to time. We want to brag about our friend the author and their book that is changing the world.
An Often Overlooked Service.
A marketing plan you can execute focusing on the avenues best for your books niche, and tactics ranging from organizing book signings with bookstores to keeping your readers engaged with blogging.
Personalized Marketing Plan
A Set of Social Media Marketing Images promoting your book using art that compliments and is patterned in the same style as your books overall design.
Set Of Social Media Marketing Images
Curated list of 10 people, and contact information, who frequently review books from your niche online. We will also include a template for a letter requesting a free and honest review of your book.
Review Request Kit
Custom High-end Book Cover & Interior Design by an Expert Designer, You have a single professional dedicated to your project and your story. They remain with you for the duration of your project.
Custom High-End Book Cover & Interior Design
Image Sourcing Services to insure you have the royalty free images your design needs to make a maximum impact.
Image Sourcing Services
Master Files. We make sure you have Publication Ready Master Files for POD & Digital outlets. These are for your records and if in the future you wish to send them. We also make sure you have the “native build files” from your project. Allowing you to have any professional make changes to the files.
Master Files For POD & Digital
ISBNs. We’ll acquire and register a ISBN with Bowker (the official source in the US) for both your Print Book and your Digital Book. This is required by most legitimate booksellers online and brick&mortar shops, including Amazon, BooksAMillion and many more. We include two ISBN’s which if purchased separately would have a value of $250.
ISBNs For Your Books
What Happens After You Hit Buy?
Once you decide on the services you desire, you will get a short questionnaire to complete via email. It will allow you to share with us the specifics of your book. Let us know things like your book’s genre, the mood, and the style you want it to portray. You can send us images you wish to have included, or images of inspiration.
We will take a look at what you send and schedule with you an initial consultation. It’s a free thing. We talk (or Video Chat) about the project. It gives us a chance to get to know each other and make a plan for your design that is specific to you and your project.
A Note: Book design and formatting does not include editorial services. It is strictly a design service. We do offer stand-alone editing services. You should only send us your fully-edited and final text. Non-design related text edits can incur an additional cost.