Professional Book Cover Design
Your Book Deserves a Great Cover
Professional cover design is included with your publishing package.
Professionally Designed
Your cover is created by an experienced book designer who brings typography, imagery, color, and composition together into a polished finished design.
Personalized for Your Book
Your cover can incorporate imagery you provide, your author photo, and/or professionally licensed imagery selected to complement your book.
Designed for Publication
Your designer creates the complete cover for your book's specifications, including the front cover, spine, and back cover required for professional publication.
Make a Strong First Impression
Your Cover Has an Important Job to Do
Whether readers discover your book online or in print, your cover needs to capture attention and communicate professionalism, even when viewed as a small thumbnail.
A strong cover stays clear and compelling, even at thumbnail size.
YOUR BOOK'S VISUAL IDENTITY
One Cover. One Consistent Look for Your Book.
Across Your Editions
Maintain a consistent, recognizable look across your book's published formats (paperback, hardback, eBook, and/or audiobook).
In Print and Online
Your cover represents your book whether readers encounter it in print, online, or as a small thumbnail while browsing.
On Marketing Materials
Printed promotional materials can feature your book cover, extending its professional look beyond the book.
Included Professional Design
See What's Possible with Standard Cover Design
Standard doesn't have to mean ordinary. See the variety of polished, professional looks possible with Standard Cover Design.
Caribbean Nightmare
Standard Cover Design
Professional Imagery
Blue Shadows
Standard Cover Design
Professional Imagery
Healing Walls
Standard Cover Design
Author-Provided Art
Carousel of Memories
Standard Cover Design
Author-Provided Image
Tommie
Standard Cover Design
Author-Provided Image
You Are Worth It
Standard Cover Design
Professional Imagery
The Power of Caring
Standard Cover Design
Professional Imagery
Broken Wing Locust
Standard Cover Design
Author-Provided Art
Matters of the Heart
Standard Cover Design
Professional Imagery
Understanding the Orofacial Complex
Standard Cover Design
Professional Imagery
Molly and the Spatterdasher
Standard Cover Design
Professional Imagery
Beatchick
Standard Cover Design
Author-Provided Image
Orchestrating Conflict
Standard Cover Design
Professional Imagery
Too Much Junk in My Trunk
Standard Cover Design
Custom Illustration
Adventures of Grammy and Me
Standard Cover Design
Custom Illustration
Each book and cover is unique. Examples shown illustrate the range of previously published standard cover designs and are not templates reproduced for other authors.
Choose a Professional Cover Style
Select from our library of professional cover styles to establish the look and design direction for your book.
Personalize it with Imagery
Add your own artwork, choose professional imagery, or submit AI-generated imagery for consideration.
Add Your Author Photo
Your author photo can also be incorporated into your cover design for an added personal connection with readers.
Use Your Own Image or Artwork
Have a photograph, painting, illustration, or other image that belongs on your cover? You can provide imagery for your designer to incorporate into your standard cover design.
Choose Professional Imagery
Authors who want professional imagery can select from hundreds of thousands of professionally licensed images in our Getty Images Premium Access gallery.
Use AI-Generated Imagery
Have an AI-generated image that captures your vision? You may submit AI-generated imagery for consideration in your standard cover design, provided you have the necessary rights to use the image and it meets applicable quality and production requirements.
Bring Your Vision to Your Book Cover
Already have a cover design or publishing a series? Depending on your project, you may be able to submit a completed cover or use an established design to create a coordinated look from book to book.
Submit Your Own Completed Front Cover
Already have a professionally prepared front cover? Ultimate authors are able to provide their own finished front-cover design and we'll create the remaining cover components.
Submit Your Own Complete Cover
Ultimate authors who already have a professionally prepared complete cover, can submit the finished front, spine, and back cover for their book.
Create a Consistent Look for Your Series
Publishing a series? Custom Cover Design can establish a distinctive visual concept for the first book. Subsequent books in the series can use that approved design as the basis for their standard cover design, helping you build a recognizable, professional series identity from book to book.
Take Your Cover from Great to Exceptional
Standard Cover Design gives your book a polished, professional look. For authors with a specific creative vision, Custom Cover Design offers greater creative freedom, with a unique concept, specialized imagery, and more advanced design treatments.
The Mask of Strategy
Custom Cover Design provides greater creative flexibility to develop a more distinctive visual concept around your book's subject and positioning.
One Last Season
See how a custom approach can take the same book in a dramatically different visual direction, creating a distinctive, engaging cover designed to capture attention and draw readers in.
Your Book. Your Vision.
Choose the Level of Design That's Right for Your Book
Every Outskirts Press author can move forward knowing their book will receive professional cover design. For authors who want additional creative possibilities, even more options are available.
Standard Cover Design
A professionally designed cover created for your book and included with your publishing package.
- Professional cover layout and typography
- Designed to your book's specifications
- Option to provide your own imagery
- Option to incorporate your author photo
- Professional image options available
Professional design is already part of your publishing experience.
Custom Cover Design
For authors who want greater creative freedom and a cover concept developed specifically around their vision.
- Greater creative flexibility
- More specialized design treatments
- Advanced image and composition possibilities
- A distinctive concept developed for your book
One-of-a-Kind Illustration
When photography or existing imagery can't capture your vision, original illustration can create artwork unique to your book.
Let's Create a Cover Worthy of Your Book
Your Publishing Consultant can help you choose the publishing package and cover design options that best fit your book, your vision, and your goals.
Schedule a Free Consultation