GOOD BOOK DESIGN
Andrea takes your Manuscript and turns it into a book. That Sells.
Book Design: the 1st (Key!) Step in Book Marketing
Obviously, writing a book is a lot of work!
Good book design is an incredibly important first step to selling the book. Your book must look professional in order to sell, and that requires the seasoned eye of an experienced book cover designer.
My specialty is helping authors transform non-fiction manuscripts (in particular conscious business, self-help, spiritual & personal development books) into beautiful, professional books (inside & out) that are designed to sell!
As well, I help people on the path to untangling the complications of modern self publishing.
The books you see on this page are all samples of my bespoke book design and publication design work, all carefully designed in order to help accomplish the goals of the publishers.
See more samples of living, selling books that I helped bring to market in my book design portfolio.
I LOVE the process of transforming your writing into an actual professional book (printed and/or ebook).
Book design often goes beyond ebook “formatting” (which is focused on the technicalities of file setup).
Imagine for a moment a few of the small but important book design details: the width of the spine, the bar code, the reviews on your back cover. And inside the book: the title page, the table of contents, the headings / callouts etc., the index.
All these tiny details add up to give the potential reader a glimpse into your writing. When this is not done well, it is absolutely an impediment to sales of your book.
There are many technical and aesthetic hoops to jump through in the quest for a professional, saleable book, especially if you want to provide your audience with the option of a printed book.
I care about those details, so your book is the best it can be! As a writer, I am also keenly on top of your content, often making suggestions and fixing typos as we work.
If you are considering either a “print run” from a traditional offset (or digital) printer, or offering your book “print on demand” e.g., on Amazon, we can make sure your book is at the highest professional level possible.
Cheap design is . . . cheap. And it can really cost you in the long run!
Book Design Packages (Cover + Interior): Fees
Read more here about my Book Cover (only) Design packages.
Custom Full Book Package (Cover & Interior) for Print & Ebook, with Upload Support
Depending on my schedule and how complex the interior of your book is, and I can sometimes offer to do both the interior and exterior of your book, and (optionally) support your upload to Amazon. This helps streamline your process by not having to hire, manage and work with multiple service providers.
Deliverables:
Final book cover files for print and ebook, both cover and interior
Book cover graphics for marketing
Email support throughout the process
A printed copy of my super helpful workbook Almost Done Writing: Now What? A Guided Workbook for Self-Publishing Authors (Nonfiction) to help guide and support you with all aspects of your self-publishing journey
3 Zoom sessions to help you with: accountability, brainstorming, mindset, tech support, encouragement, marketing ideas whatever you need along the road of self-publishing. You book these at your convenience.
The complexity of a book’s interior can vary enormously – so before I could finalize any quotes, we need to review a sample chapter of your book’s interior.
To give you a ballpark, the all-in-one design of a straightforward trade book (with 1 or 2 heading levels, no charts or index etc.) begins at $2800 (2 payments of $1400). If you have a complex nonfiction interior with more than 2 levels of headings, charts and graphs, the all-in-one design of the book (including the interior) begins at $3600. Custom interiors are created in InDesign and do include ebook files, which I create using Vellum.
““Andrea Schmidt designed my book, The Boreal Curmudgeon, and did a stellar job of it. My illustrator, Heidi Marion and I were delighted with the quality of her work. The book looks beautiful. In spite of delays and confusion at our end, Andrea always completed her work on time, and there were no surprises in the budget. She was endlessy patient and helpful and contributed quite a lot more than she was paid for in the way of help and advice, going so far as to copy edit the book at no extra charge. This was my first venture into self-publishing and without Andrea’s expertise, I would have been lost. I would not hesitate to engage her services again if I had a similar project in mind.” ”