The basic cover design focuses on a central image* with easy-to-read layout.

We’ll provide you two initial mock-up designs. Choose the cover design concept you like best and suggest changes to be made.

Our designer will work with you through two revisions to turn the concept into the final cover design.

*The image is chosen by the designer or supplied by you.

More complex imagery, textures, and/or photo blending with additional attention to font pairing or stylization is included with our custom design.

This design may combine multiple images* to give a glimpse into the story or subject matter.

Choose the cover design concept you like best and suggest changes to be made.

Our designer will work with you through three revisions to turn the concept into the final cover design.

*The image is chosen by the designer or supplied by you.

Does your book have sophisticated design features? Are you using tables? Sidebars? Is your book a poetry book wherein each poem’s layout requires special formatting? No problem. Enhanced Formatting is for you.

If your book has any of these features, you’ll need Enhanced Formatting:

• Numbered or bulleted lists
• Equations
• Tables
• Poetry
• More images than text
• Text borders
• Shaded boxes
• Sidebars
• Call-out quotes

*Price is based on 20 pages of special layout. If your book requires more attention, ask us for a custom quote.

Does your manuscript have sophisticated style elements? Shaded text? Drop caps?

Do you want images and text to appear in a specific way in your eBook?

We can help.

Items that require Enhanced Formatting for an eBook are:

• Numbered or bulleted lists
• Tables
• Poetry
• Nested table of contents
• Drop caps
• Color text
• Text borders
• Shaded boxes
• Sidebars
• Complex lists
• Call-out quotes
• Over 20 pictures or illustrations
• Other formats besides simple text

*Price is based on 20 pages of special layout. If your book requires more attention ask us for a custom quote.

If you have a children’s book, coffee-table book, or other highly illustrated book, fixed layout allows you to “fix” the images and text to exact spots on each page. Fixed-layout eBooks are the closest technology has brought us to the appearance of images and texts in a pBook. iPads, iPhones, and Amazon’s Fire, among others, have advanced capacity to display fixed-layout eBooks.

You probably need a fixed layout if your book is a:

• Children’s illustrated book
• Cookbook
• Coffee-table book
• Graphic novel
• Technical manual
• Book with full-page images or text that overlaps colors/images

For up to 50,000 words, to get your manuscript ready for layout, we will collate all files into the proper sequence within one file. We clean the text to be ready for InDesign layout/typesetting by removing unwanted spaces, breaks, tabs, and sections; setting paragraphs and alignments; making fonts and font sizes consistent; and ensuring that endnotes or footnotes have not been created manually.

Note: Larger word counts, special formatting, inserting of photo tags, or diacritics require a quote based on actual work.

We will design a scheme for front matter, parts, chapters, and heading levels to ensure that the structure and navigation is as clear as possible.

We select fonts, add flourishes, and design chapter opening pages to set the tone for the author, book genre, and target audience.

We follow best practice on font size, leading, justification, hyphenation, tracking, and kerning to ensure that text is perfectly polished and enjoyable to read.

We set pages to best suit the content, creating squared-off pages at identical heights, avoiding widows/orphans, and preventing awkward breaks.

We generate a final book file according to all the requirements of your chosen printer (spreads, transparency flattening, font embedding, crop marks).

Note: This price is based on text-only pages. If there are special formatting requirements or images to be included, we need to provide you a individualized quote.

We initially provide a styling sample—changes will be made to this until you are entirely happy. Next, we send the whole book as a watermarked PDF—a single set of changes to this are included before we return your final file.