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Scandendo · Design Studio

Covers your book deserves.

A human-led design studio for indie authors — book covers, eBooks, and author brands that look like they belong on the bestseller shelf.

Human-led. AI-accelerated. Always human-finished.

How we work

Genre-fluent direction

Every cover starts with genre research, so it signals the right shelf before a word is read.

One studio, every format

Covers, interiors, and author brands — print-ready and platform-ready, delivered together.

Human-finished, always

AI helps us explore faster, but a designer art-directs and finishes everything that ships.

What We Make

Three things. Done properly.

Book Cover Design

A cover your readers can't scroll past.

  • Genre research + mood board
  • Front cover design (2–3 directions)
  • Print-ready PDF
  • eBook format (JPEG + PNG)
  • Social-ready crop
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Cover + Interior Layout

A finished book, inside and out.

  • Everything in Cover
  • Full interior layout (fiction or non-fiction)
  • Print-ready interior PDF
  • eBook interior formatting
  • Spine + back cover design
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Logo & Author Brand

A brand that makes your name mean something.

  • Everything in Cover + Interior
  • Wordmark + companion mark
  • Color + type system
  • Social, print & web files
  • Brand usage guide
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Selected Work

Browse the work, by genre.

Glasshouse Hearts — Romance book cover

Glasshouse Hearts

Romance

The Midnight Platform — Romance book cover

The Midnight Platform

Romance

Ash & Aether — Fantasy & Sci-Fi book cover

Ash & Aether

Fantasy & Sci-Fi

Signal in the Deep — Fantasy & Sci-Fi book cover

Signal in the Deep

Fantasy & Sci-Fi

The Starless Cartographer — Fantasy & Sci-Fi book cover

The Starless Cartographer

Fantasy & Sci-Fi

Black Harbor Road — Thriller & Mystery book cover

Black Harbor Road

Thriller & Mystery

The Last Blue Door — Thriller & Mystery book cover

The Last Blue Door

Thriller & Mystery

The Porcelain Map — Thriller & Mystery book cover

The Porcelain Map

Thriller & Mystery

The Quiet Proof — Non-fiction book cover

The Quiet Proof

Non-fiction

After the Index — Non-fiction book cover

After the Index

Non-fiction

Small Brave Things — Children's book cover

Small Brave Things

Children's

The Ninth Orchard — Literary book cover

The Ninth Orchard

Literary

Paper Kingdom — Literary book cover

Paper Kingdom

Literary

How We Work

From brief to bestseller-ready, in four steps.

  1. Brief & genre research

    You share your vision, genre, and comparable covers. We dig into the market to understand what works — and what's been done to death.

    Typical: Days 1–2

  2. Concepts & directions

    We explore 2–3 distinct directions and share them with context. You choose, redirect, or combine — your call.

    Typical: Days 3–6

  3. Revisions

    You pick a direction and we refine it — tightening type, image, and finish until it's exactly right.

    Typical: Days 7–10

  4. Final files + print-ready

    Print-ready PDF, eBook cover, and social-ready files — all formats, all yours, forever.

    Typical: Days 11–12

How We Use AI

We use AI to explore directions faster and widen the range of ideas we can show you. But every cover that ships is designed, art-directed, and finished by a human — and you'll always know exactly what's hand-made. No auto-generated slop, no surprises.

Pricing

Clear packages. No surprises.

All prices in USD. You own every final file, in every format you need.

Cover

Custom quote

  • Genre research + mood board
  • Front cover design (2–3 directions)
  • Print-ready PDF
  • eBook format (JPEG + PNG)
  • Social-ready crop

Revisions 2 rounds included

Turnaround ~5 business days

You own all final files

Start a cover

Full Author Brand

Custom quote

  • Everything in Cover + Interior
  • Wordmark + companion mark
  • Color + type system
  • Social, print & web files
  • Brand usage guide

Revisions Until it’s right

Turnaround ~15 business days

You own all final files

Start author brand

Good Questions

The things authors ask us most.

  • Cover-only projects typically complete in 5 business days; Cover + Interior in ~10 days; Full Author Brand in ~15 days. Timescales run from the moment we receive your approved brief and deposit — not from initial inquiry. We confirm the exact schedule in your project brief.

  • Cover packages include 2 revision rounds; Cover + Interior includes 3; Full Author Brand includes unlimited rounds until we both love it. Each round covers a consolidated set of changes — not individual tweaks sent one at a time. We track all versions so nothing gets lost.

  • Every project ships with a print-ready PDF (correct bleeds and crop marks for KDP, IngramSpark, or your printer), a high-resolution JPEG and PNG for eBook platforms, a social-ready crop, and layered source files. You get everything you'll ever need for this book — in one delivery, no chasing for extras later.

  • You do — entirely. Scandendo retains no licensing rights over the finished artwork. Once delivered, the files are yours to print, publish, and use across any platform, in perpetuity. The source files are yours too.

  • Yes, and we're candid about it. We use AI tools to explore directions faster and widen the range of concepts we can show you. But every cover that ships is designed, art-directed, and finished by a human — no auto-generated slop, no surprises. If you want to know exactly how we use it on your specific project, ask us when you submit your brief.

  • Romance (all sub-genres), Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Thriller & Mystery, Non-fiction, Children's and Middle Grade, and Literary Fiction. If your genre isn't listed, get in touch — we take on carefully selected projects outside these core areas when the brief is a strong fit.

  • Fill in the project brief on our contact page — it takes about 5 minutes. We'll review it and get back to you within 1 business day, usually with a few questions to make sure we understand your book before we begin.

  • We agree the full scope, price, payment schedule, and revision rounds up front, in a short written project agreement — before any design work starts. Nothing is open-ended and there are no surprise add-ons: you'll always know exactly what's included and what each stage costs.

Let's Begin

Let's make your
next cover.

Tell us about your book. We reply within one business day.