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Thank you for your interest in our book cover design services!
This form is for initial inquiries and booking requests. Please share a few basic details so we can understand your project and availability.
After you submit, we’ll follow up to discuss timeline, pricing, and our process. A 50% retainer is required to secure your spot. Once your booking is confirmed, we’ll send a detailed design questionnaire to capture creative direction and
content specifics.
Have questions? Email acacia@everaftercoverdesign.com
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Complete our project application and tell us about your book, preferred timeline, and creative direction. We’ll review your application and contact you if the project feels like a good fit for our studio.
If accepted, your project will be added to our upcoming-project queue without payment. At the end of each month, we’ll review our active schedule and contact you when we expect an opening to become available.
When we’re ready to begin, we’ll confirm that you’re prepared to move forward, send your terms for acceptance, and request your 50% retainer. Once these steps are complete, your project will be officially scheduled.
The retainer is 50% of your total project cost and is non-refundable. It will only be requested when we’re ready to officially schedule and begin your project.
We’ll provide an estimated start window, but this is not a guaranteed date. Your project will be officially scheduled once we contact you, confirm that you’re ready to begin, receive your accepted terms, and collect your 50% retainer.
If you’re not ready when an opening becomes available, that’s completely okay. We can move your project further down the queue and offer the opening to the next author.
If you require a firm booking date or would prefer not to wait for an opening, please let us know before joining the queue. We’ll be transparent about whether we can accommodate your timeline so you can make the best decision for your release without disrupting the schedules of other authors.
Creative schedules can quickly become overwhelming when too many projects are active at once—particularly when unexpected mental or physical health needs arise. We’ve changed our booking system to better support our designers while creating a more thoughtful and reliable experience for every author.
By focusing on one project at a time, we can give your story our full creative attention, communicate more clearly, and guide your cover through the design process with the care it deserves.
This also gives us greater flexibility to prioritise returning authors and series continuations, helping established visual worlds remain consistent from one book to the next.
We’re currently trialling this approach and will continue reviewing how well it works for both our authors and designers. If we find that it creates too much inconvenience for authors, we’ll return to advance bookings while accepting fewer projects each month.
Projects are assigned within the Ever After studio according to availability, style, and the needs of your story. Our designers work under a shared creative direction so every project receives the thoughtful, recognisable Ever After experience.
Yes. Our Cover Typography & Formatting service is designed for authors who already have a completed illustration or piece of cover art.
The artwork must be high-resolution and licensed for commercial book-cover use. We’ll design the typography and prepare the ebook and print-cover files around it.
Yes. Special-edition design is available as an add-on to eligible cover projects. Depending on the needs of your edition, this may include a dust jacket, case laminate, sprayed edges, endpapers, or other collector details.
Your first concept is generally created within approximately 10 business days of receiving everything required to begin. A complete project can take around two months, depending on feedback, revisions, responsiveness, and the complexity of the design.
With less overlapping projects, we estimate this time to be a lot shorter.
Custom cover design includes three rounds of revisions. Further revision rounds can be added for $150 NZD each.
No. We do not use generative AI imagery in our cover designs. Our work is created using appropriately licensed stock, typography, illustration, and other design assets.
Final publication-ready files are delivered within approximately 48 hours of final payment and approval.
If a publisher would like to continue using your existing cover design, please contact us before transferring or supplying any files.
We’ll review the original project terms and third-party asset licences, then work directly with you or the publisher to arrange the appropriate design licence, file preparation, and any required adaptations. Additional licensing or production fees may apply, and some stock imagery, fonts, or illustrations may need to be relicensed by the publisher.