Book Cover Designers

Revolutionary print-on-demand (POD) digital printing technology combined with the modern ease of transacting business online has led to a proliferation of self-published and small-press-published books.

Perhaps you are a small press or an individual about to self-publish your own book? What will make your book stand out from the burgeoning mass of books that digital print-on-demand presses are churning out these days? A great book cover design, that’s what!

Digital presses such as BookSurge, Lightning Source, LuLu, BookMasters, Xilbris and others offer low press runs at prices and quality that rival offset presses. And if you’re ready to publish with them and don’t yet have cover art for your book, they’re happy to sell you their value added book cover design service at prices in the range of $1000.

And as for page layout? Too many authors attempt to do it themselves in MS Word, which is absolutely NOT a page layout program, number one. And number two, if you’re not knowledgeable with time-tested layout style conventions, your DIY layout will brand your book as “amateur” even by an untrained eye, which will readily, albeit subconsciously, pick up on the deviation from traditional presentation.

Don’t want to spend $1000 on your book cover? Well, you can spend $500 for their “standard” version which they say is not template based, but a review of books in their “catalog” will reveal two, three, sometimes four books which use the exact same background image and layout.

Don’t fall for this.

Remember—you want to be the one that stands out from the masses. How do you do that? If you truly care about your book project, you’ll hire a professional graphic designer—one that specializes in book cover design services, has samples of his or her published works, and comes recommended.

Book-cover-designers.com recommends the book cover design and book page layout services of Pamela Trush at Delaney-Designs. Want to meet her? You can do so here.

Want to see her work? Here:

Oh yeah—she offers a FREE barcode with her book cover designs.

Pamela and any graphic designer you hire will expect you to submit to her a final draft of your manuscript. That means the manuscript has been completely copy edited, revised, and proofread before you submit it for page layout.

So it your manuscript truly ready for layout? If not, here are some people who offer copy editing and proofreading:

Bud Jillett at Jillett Publications, who published the landmark nonfiction New Age title Twin Souls Merging.

Proofreading and Copy Editing Services at Jillett Publications

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