Get personalized guidance from our president, Ted Galdi
#1 Amazon bestselling author
Ted has helped over 1,000 writers. He'll be your personal contact from project start to finish.
Cover Design
Regular Price: $699
$399
Our president, a #1 bestselling author, will help come up with a cover concept for your book, with your input. Our expert designer will create it. Front, back, and spine included.
Sell a lot of books
A bestselling author will advise on your concept. Appeal to a lot of readers in your genre.
Save a lot of time
Creating your own cover, or finding a reliable freelancer for it, can take a lot of time. We'll do it for you, fast.
Keep all the royalties
Unlike other companies, we don't take any of your royalties.
Everything You Get
Concept Development
Our president, #1 bestseller Ted Galdi, will advise on the concept for your cover.
Custom Cover
We'll create an attention-grabbing cover that appeals to readers in your genre. Includes front, back, and spine.
Self-Publishing Success Blueprint
Get our blueprint for self-publishing via Amazon KDP, with advice on pricing, KDP Select, distribution, and more.
Bestseller Marketing Strategy Session
Ted will lay out a marketing plan 1-on-1 with you, to help make your book a bestseller. Your choice of call or text chat.
Self-Publishing a New Book?
If so, you need more than a cover. You need e-book and paperback file formatting, and more. Get everything you need with our Self-Publishing Launch Package.
To sell a lot of copies, your book needs a great cover.
Get personalized guidance from our president, Ted Galdi
#1 Amazon bestselling author
Ted has helped over 1,000 writers. He'll be your personal contact from project start to finish.
Ted knows how to get big results on Amazon.
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Amazon bestselling author of Redemption
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Steps and Timeline
Step 1
Your input
You'll receive an email with some questions about your book and your input for the cover. Timing: Immediately after you order the service.
Step 2
Concept and initial version
Ted will advise on a cover concept for your book, and our expert designer will create a version 1 for you to review. Timing: Within 1 week of the previous step.
Step 3
Feedback and finalization
Send us your feedback on the version 1 cover, which we'll use for updates. Go through up to 3 rounds of revisions until you're happy. Timing: Within 1-2 weeks of the previous step.
Step 4
Marketing plan
Receive our Self-Publishing Success Blueprint, and schedule your 1-on-1 session with Ted, where he'll lay out a customized bestseller marketing strategy for your book. Timing: Immediately after the previous step.
FAQs
You can add your front-cover file to Amazon's KDP platform to self-publish a Kindle version of your book. You can also use this front cover, along with your back and spine designs, to self-publish paperback and hardcover versions via KDP.
Please keep in mind, for physical books, you not only need designs for your book's front, book, and spine, but the files need to be properly aligned to the height of your book's printed pages.
A size alignment for physical printing is not included in our Cover Design service. However, we would be happy to do this for you if you place an additional order, for Paperback Formatting and/or Hardcover Formatting.
To self-publish a book on Amazon, you need a cover. However, you also need an interior file for your Kindle version, aligned interior and exterior files for your paperback version, and a description, categories, and keywords.
If you just need a cover (and have accounted for the other material), then get our Cover Design service with an "Order Now" button on this page. If you need more than a cover, check out our self-publishing launch package.
Yes. Though out Cover Design service includes a design for your book's front, back, and spine, to self-publish an e-book, you just need a file for your book's front (back and spine designs are for paperback/hardcover versions).
If you just plan to self-publish an e-book, can simply disregard the back and spine files you'll receive from us. However, feel free to consider using them at any time in the future, if you decide to expand to a physical format.
All of them. We create covers for every genre, across fiction and non-fiction. Examples:
Thriller
Mystery
Suspense
Action
Crime
Horror
Sci-fi
Fantasy
Romance
Literary
Graphic novels
Comedy
Children's
Middle grade
Young adult
Historical
Poetry
Biography
Memoir
Business
Education
Cooking
Health
Design
Technology
Social science
Theoretically, yes, you can create your own cover. However, unless you have graphic-design experience, your cover likely won't be as effective as one designed by an expert.
If you don't have an appealing cover that resonates with readers of your genre, the chances of people purchasing your book on Amazon will plummet. Without a great cover, many readers may not even bother visiting your book's page to check out your description.
Plus, creating a cover yourself takes a lot of time, while letting a professional handle it will free up many hours in your schedule.
If you're self-publishing your book, you have four main options for getting a cover:
1.) Doing it yourself. This can eat up a lot of your time. Plus, unless you're an expert graphic designer, you likely won't be as effective as a professional.
2.) Hiring a freelancer. Though many good freelancers are out there, plenty of them overpromise and under-deliver. Knowing whether or not you're choosing an effective one can be hard. Plus, if you go with a freelancer, you'll have to spend time managing the project.
3.) Working with another company that provides self-publishing services. Though other companies provide similar services as Galdi Media, many force authors into restrictive, lifetime contracts that claim a significant percentage of a book's royalties. In addition, your point of contact at these companies likely won't be its president, or a #1 bestselling author.
4.) Partnering with Galdi Media. Your point of contact will be Ted Galdi, our president, and a #1 bestselling author. He'll give you customized advice to make your book a success. You won't have to do any graphic design or project management. Ted will make sure experts from his network handle everything for you. Because he believes authors should keep 100% of their earnings, you won't be asked to give over a royalty percentage, or to sign any contracts at all.
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