Joseph A.

It’s 11 p.m. You’ve finished the book. You upload it to Kindle Direct Publishing and get the rejection: trim size, bleed, spine, “content outside margins.” You fix it, re-upload, and get a different error. Or it went through, and you’re staring at your Amazon page. Your book cover design looks fine until it sits next to the bestsellers in your genre. Then it looks like a hobby. You don’t have a writing problem. You have a “nobody checked that the Book Cover and the print file work together” problem. It’s the most common reason indie books get rejected or ignored on Amazon KDP. “Joseph caught a Book Cover spine width error my previous Book Cover designer missed and had my files accepted by Amazon KDP and Ingram spark on the first upload. The Book Cover Design also looked far more polished in my Romance genre than my first edition.” 𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻, 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿. Imagine the next KDP upload instead: it goes through the first time, and your book cover design looks traditionally published from the thumbnail to the last page. That’s what I build. I’m Joseph, a graphic designer specializing in Romance and Thiller book cover design, Romance book cover design, book cover design, book formatting, children book illustration and eBook design. I design the Full Wrap Cover (Front Cover, spine, Back Cover) and handle the book layout and typesetting in Adobe InDesign, with Adobe Photoshop or Canva and Adobe Illustrator for the artwork, as one system. Everything lines up before you upload. What you walk away with: 🔸 Book Cover art design with a full wrap: spine, barcode area, bleed and trim set correctly for paperback and hardcover print design 🔸 Interior layout and editorial design that doesn’t look like a Word document: margins, gutters, chapter openings, headers, page numbers, clean table of contents 🔸 Ebook formatting and EPUB files that display properly on Kindle and other devices 🔸 Illustration and digital art for covers in fantasy, LitRPG, romance, thriller, children’s books and nonfiction: character design, 2D illustration, cartoon art, comic art, colorful or hand-drawn style 🔸 Children’s book illustration with matching layout design 🔸 Photo manipulation and photo retouching for cover imagery 🔸 Journals, planners and workbooks: matching interior and cover 🔸 Fixes for flagged files (trim size, spine, bleed) plus prepress and print production checks 🔸 PDF and document conversion, including Microsoft Word manuscripts turned into properly typeset books 🔸 Series design, so book 2 and book 3 look like they belong with book 1 And on every project you get: ✅ 2 book cover concepts and 3 revision rounds ✅ Print-ready PDF, ebook files, editable source files and high-resolution artwork ✅ Clear commercial usage rights ✅ Typography that stays readable at thumbnail size ✅ A designer who studies your genre and reads your brief before asking questions Who I’ve worked with: I’ve designed and formatted books for self-published authors and indie publishers across romance, thriller, memoir, fantasy, cozy mystery, nonfiction and workbooks. My publication design and desktop publishing files are built to KDP’s specs from the start, so they upload without trim, spine or bleed errors. My English Language background and proofreading eye help me read pacing and typography the way a reader does. Beyond books, I also take on Book Promotion, logo design and Book release graphics to promote your launch, so your book and your brand match to get more readers to go through your book. Wanna to see something cool? Send me your genre and your current Book Cover or file, and I’ll tell you what’s holding it back from hitting best seller as a romance authour. To get your quote, reply with: Genre, Book title, page count and trim size (or “not sure yet”) Print, eBook or both, and cover, interior or both Your deadline and 1-3 covers you like 👉 Click "Invite to Job" or "Send Message" below, and let’s turn your manuscript into a breakout bestseller! 🥂Cheers, Joseph