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
Scandendo · Design Studio
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
Every cover starts with genre research, so it signals the right shelf before a word is read.
Covers, interiors, and author brands — print-ready and platform-ready, delivered together.
AI helps us explore faster, but a designer art-directs and finishes everything that ships.
What We Make
A cover your readers can't scroll past.
A finished book, inside and out.
A brand that makes your name mean something.
Selected Work

Glasshouse Hearts
Romance

The Midnight Platform
Romance

Ash & Aether
Fantasy & Sci-Fi

Signal in the Deep
Fantasy & Sci-Fi

The Starless Cartographer
Fantasy & Sci-Fi

Black Harbor Road
Thriller & Mystery

The Last Blue Door
Thriller & Mystery

The Porcelain Map
Thriller & Mystery

The Quiet Proof
Non-fiction

After the Index
Non-fiction

Small Brave Things
Children's

The Ninth Orchard
Literary

Paper Kingdom
Literary
How We Work
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
We explore 2–3 distinct directions and share them with context. You choose, redirect, or combine — your call.
Typical: Days 3–6
You pick a direction and we refine it — tightening type, image, and finish until it's exactly right.
Typical: Days 7–10
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
All prices in USD. You own every final file, in every format you need.
Custom quote
Custom quote
Custom quote
Good Questions
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
Tell us about your book. We reply within one business day.