On Amazon your cover is a thumbnail in a grid of dozens. Before anyone reads a word of your blurb, it has to signal the genre and set the mood, and make a promise about the story. Get it right and everything you spend on ads and launches goes further. Get it wrong and good writing gets scrolled straight past.
Jack Cartwright, our co-founder, is a USA Today bestselling crime author with over a million books sold. We’ve designed every cover across his three series, in all four formats, along with the box sets and mock-ups, and the ad graphics that go with them.
Each series has its own look, but they share one brand, so a reader who finds one Jack Cartwright book can pick out the rest straight away.
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More covers we’ve designed for crime, thriller and mystery authors. Titles big enough to read at thumbnail size, imagery that sets the mood, and a look that wouldn’t be out of place next to the genre’s bestsellers.
Someone who finishes book one should recognise book two on sight. Each series gets its own system for layout and type, with a colour scheme to match, so every new cover reads as the next instalment and sells the rest of the series for you.
The same hero silhouette and bold type on every book. Only the colour changes; the promise stays put.
Moody rain-soaked colours and one shared layout link every case in the series.
We look at what’s selling in your category, so the cover tells the right readers what genre it is before they’ve read the title.
A front cover that reads clearly as a thumbnail in Amazon search results, which is where most readers first come across it.
Full print covers with spine and back, built to your trim size and page count for KDP, IngramSpark or any other printer.
A square version for Audible and other audiobook stores, designed for that shape from the start.
One look across every book in a series, so readers recognise the next instalment and carry on reading.
3D mock-ups and graphics for your website, socials, Amazon A+ content and ads, all cut from the same artwork.
First we talk through your book and its readers, and where it’ll sell. Then we study what’s working in your genre right now.
We design several first concepts, each coming at the story from a different angle, so you can compare real options side by side.
We develop the one you like best through rounds of feedback until every element, from the title to the type, is exactly right.
You get print-ready and ebook files, an audiobook version if you need one, and 3D mock-ups ready for launch day.
Your cover is the ad. In Amazon’s sponsored placements it’s often all a reader sees, so a cover that earns the click brings down what you pay per sale. We design covers with your Amazon Ads in mind for exactly that reason, and it’s why authors often ask us to run both.
Stop thinking of your cover as a cost. Call it a cost and you’ve cut yourself off from a critical part of your business and turned it into a negative. It’s an opportunity. Better still, look at it the other way round: a cover that doesn’t look the part is the lost opportunity, because every reader who scrolls past is a sale and a review you never get. We don’t sell off-the-shelf packages. Tell us what you need, from a single ebook cover or full print wrap to an audiobook version or a whole series, and after a short conversation we’ll give you a clear quote before any work starts.
Send your title and author name with the genre and a short blurb. If you’re printing, add your trim size and page count. A few covers you love from your genre help as well, and we’ll do the research from there.
Yes. We supply print-ready paperback and hardback wraps with the spine and back cover built to your printer’s template. You also get the ebook front cover, and a square audiobook version if you need one.
Yes, and we recommend it. A series shares one layout and type system, with colour to match, so readers recognise the next book straight away and keep buying through the series. Several covers above belong to one.
Yes. Each cover comes with 3D mock-ups like the ones on this page, ready to use on your website and socials and in ads. If we’re also running your Amazon Ads or social ads, we build that creative from the same artwork.
No. What you see here is a selection of our crime and thriller work, and we design for other genres too. The test is the same in any of them: your cover should look at home on the shelf beside the bestsellers in your genre.
Four quick questions, and we’ll show you where we’d start. Your answers come straight to us with your message, so you won’t have to explain it twice.
A 30-minute introduction call on Microsoft Teams, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Your answers come with the booking, so we’ll be ready for you.
Prefer to talk it through? Make an appointment for a 30-minute call on Microsoft Teams, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
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