Book cover design
Custom covers designed for your genre and built to stand out as a thumbnail.
Designed to be clicked
Nova Publishers (thenovap.com) designs custom book covers from $600, and every package includes one. Each concept starts from your genre, comparable titles and mood. Launch includes 2 concepts and 1 revision round, and Launch Pro and above include 3 concepts and 2 rounds. Launch, which is ebook only, gets the ebook cover. From Launch Pro you also get a print-ready full wrap with the spine sized to your final page count, an audiobook square, social images and a dust jacket for hardcovers.
Print full wrap
Front, spine and back at your trim size.
Ebook cover
Sized for Amazon, Apple Books and every major store.
Audiobook square
Ready for Audible, Apple Books and Spotify.
Social images
Cuts for launch posts, ads and your website.
Dust jacket
For hardcover editions.
How it works
Four steps, and you approve each one before the next begins.
Brief
Your genre, comparable titles, mood and any images you love.
Concepts
2 concept directions on Launch, 3 from Launch Pro, each with the thinking behind it.
Revisions
1 round of revision on Launch, 2 from Launch Pro, on the concept you choose.
Final files
Print wrap, ebook, audiobook and social files, plus the editable source.
How a Nova cover is designed
Every cover starts with a brief: your genre, your readers, comparable titles you'd like to sit beside, the mood of the book and any images you love. Your designer looks at the covers in your category, then designs concepts that fit what readers expect while standing out from the books around yours.
Each concept comes with the thinking behind it. You choose one direction, and the designer refines it through your revision rounds: 1 on Launch, 2 from Launch Pro.
Built for a thumbnail and a shelf
Most readers first see your cover as a small image on Amazon or in a search result, so the title and key image are designed to read clearly at that size. The same design also works full size, on a bookstore shelf or on a table at a signing.
Typography matters as much as the image. The title, subtitle and author name are set to read at a glance, and the back cover carries your description, author bio and barcode in a clean layout.
The files you receive
Every cover comes with an ebook version sized for every major store, and from Launch Pro you also get a print-ready full wrap with the spine sized to your final page count, an audiobook square for Audible, Apple Books and Spotify, social images for your launch, and a dust jacket for hardcover editions. The editable source files are yours to keep.
A cover is included in every Nova package, and on its own it starts at $600. If your book is already published and you're planning a relaunch, a new cover is a good place to start.
From the Nova bookstore
A sample of books in the Nova bookstore. Each author owns their book and keeps their retailer royalties.
Questions authors ask
Don't see yours? Send it with your manuscript and we'll answer within 1 business day.
Ask us a questionBook cover design at Nova Publishers starts from $600 on its own, and every package includes a cover. Launch gets 2 concepts and 1 revision round; Launch Pro and above get 3 concepts and 2 rounds.
Nova Publishers shows you 2 cover concepts on the Launch package and 3 on Launch Pro and above. Each is a distinct direction grounded in genre research and your brief. After you pick one, Launch includes 1 round of revision and Launch Pro and above include 2. If you want more concepts or rounds, we quote them before we start.
Nova Publishers delivers a print-ready full wrap (front, spine and back) at your trim size, an ebook cover at Amazon and Apple Books specs, a thumbnail version, social media cuts, a square audiobook cover and a dust jacket for hardcovers. Launch, which is ebook only, gets the ebook cover.
You own the final cover Nova Publishers designs for you: the print, ebook and audiobook files and the editable source files are yours to keep and use.
Readers judge a book by its cover in a few seconds, especially as a thumbnail on Amazon, so Nova Publishers designs covers to read clearly at thumbnail size and to signal the right genre, so the right readers click.
Every genre has visual conventions readers recognize, and Nova Publishers designs to them: thrillers with high contrast and bold type, romance with figures and emotional cues, cozy mysteries with illustration and warm color, and literary fiction with space and restraint.
Yes, Nova Publishers redesigns covers for books already on Amazon and IngramSpark, keeps the existing interior, and uploads the new cover to your own accounts.
Either can work: Nova Publishers treats stock images so they don't look off the shelf, and quotes original illustration separately when a book needs it.
Nova Publishers calculates spine width from the final page count and paper type of your approved interior, not the manuscript word count, because page count can change during formatting.
Send us your manuscript, or whatever part of it exists.
We reply within 1 business day with a fixed quote for what your book needs.