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Designing marketable books.

Cover design.

Cover design.

Cover design.

We design book covers that stand out, and help refine titles and subtitles to speak clearer and sell better. Bespoke art, illustration and custom lettering all done in-house to create unique, bold, genre-appropriate designs that pop.

Typesetting.

Cover design.

Cover design.

Good typesetting (and professional eBook formatting) should get out of the way, and work invisibly to keep readers in the experience. We do everything the way a traditional publisher would, so readers can't tell the difference.

Expertise.

Cover design.

Expertise.

We have decades of hands-on experience, from our own books with traditional publishers, to helping hundreds of indie authors self-publish with confidence. You can trust us to give your book the credibility it deserves.

About.

We learned everything we know by doing it. We've written bestselling books, and learned to design, publish and market them ourselves. We know the good, the bad and the ugly of the traditional publishing world and we know the print-on-demand and self-publishing process inside out. We know first-hand the challenges, worries, hurdles and pain points authors face on the way, because we've faced them all ourselves.


We offer design services like cover artwork, print interior typesetting and eBook production, but we can also, as one client described it, "act as a kind of midwife for your unborn book." Unlike 'designers' with general design-school backgrounds, we have real-world experience of making and selling books. We know what works and what doesn't. And we can jump in to help at basically any point in a project's timeline.


We're sensitive to writers, and like being in their corner whenever we can be. We know what it's like to write, make and publish books, from difficult first drafts to physical books you can finally hold in your hands, and we want to be generous with what we've learned. We want every author we work with to have the experience we'd want if we were in their shoes - and get a book at the end they can stand behind with confidence.

Publishers we've worked with.

What BOLDER emphasise.

Attention-grabbing cover designs.

Attention-grabbing cover designs.

Attention-grabbing cover designs.

Bright, bold, loud. Designs that pop, stand out from the crowd, and—crucially—remain legible in thumbnail form—how online audiences first encounter them.   

Eye-catching thumbnails.

Attention-grabbing cover designs.

Attention-grabbing cover designs.

That means BIG TITLES, vivid colours, punchy design concepts, and thumbnails that jump off the page against the all-white backdrops of marketplaces like Amazon.

Traffic-stopping concepts.

Attention-grabbing cover designs.

Confident branding propositions.

Strong concepts stand out. Bold titles, covers that announce genre clearly, and concepts that deliver the book's core argument in a memorable, effective way.  

Confident branding propositions.

Clearer thinking, clearer suggestions.

Confident branding propositions.

We tighten the branding nuts and bolts until every marketing element—title, subtitle, cover, blurb—are working together as a confident, coherent conceptual package.

Clearer thinking, clearer suggestions.

Clearer thinking, clearer suggestions.

Clearer thinking, clearer suggestions.

We design by reasoning. Through research and a recommendation-led approach, we keep choice overload, analysis paralysis and decision-fatigue away from authors.

More impactful guidance.

Clearer thinking, clearer suggestions.

Clearer thinking, clearer suggestions.

Candid advice, self-publishing assistance and hard-won insight for authors at every stage of the process, distilled from decades of creative and publishing experience.

To see the results, visit our Showcase here.

What BOLDER do.

Title, concept and branding design.

Book and eBook design, inside and out.

Book and eBook design, inside and out.

We can work with you on your title, subtitle and overall marketing proposition, to give your book a confident "brand" and ensure it is well-positioned in the marketplace.

Book and eBook design, inside and out.

Book and eBook design, inside and out.

Book and eBook design, inside and out.

From bold covers to typesetting the print interior and the production of digital eBooks. Everything in-house and to the self-same industry standards of a traditional publisher.

Blurbs, tag-lines and marketing copy.

Book and eBook design, inside and out.

Blurbs, tag-lines and marketing copy.

If the cover does its job, readers land at the blurb (product description), where each and every word should help them get what the book is (or isn't), or convince them to buy. We can write, or edit, blurbs—and more.

Marketing materials and mock-ups.

Uploading, setting up and publishing.

Blurbs, tag-lines and marketing copy.

We can help you establish credibility with mock-ups of the book and other marketing materials, from posters to social media banners to Amazon A+ content.

Self-publish with confidence.

Uploading, setting up and publishing.

Uploading, setting up and publishing.

We're authors first—and know traditional and self-publishing processes inside-out. We can advise with uploading, and technical topics like ISBNs and keywords/categories.

Uploading, setting up and publishing.

Uploading, setting up and publishing.

Uploading, setting up and publishing.

If you don't feel confident with the technical aspects of self-publishing, we can take over registering ISBNs, uploading book files, and developing author websites.

To read what authors say about us, see our Testimonials.

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