Check out all of this year’s Black Friday Deals below! Premade Book Covers All Black Friday Premade Cover Orders will receive a FREE Trope Graphic! Start shopping now! Valid for Premade Cover Purchases through 12/13/2024.You’ll receive an email from us … Read More
Instructions: Create your own package below, and then select how many books you would like the package applied to. If you would like varying quantities of services (for example, four A+ Content packages and two bookmarks), please enter each package order separately based on the number of each service you would like to purchase (so in our example, you’d fill out this page once for your four A+ content packages, add it to your cart, and come back to this page to fill it out for your two bookmarks, then add that to your cart as well).
* Valid ONLY for authors who have previously worked with us on a premade or custom cover design, and ONLY for the books we have designed through the end of 2024
This purchase is non-refundable. It is the author’s responsibility to confirm qualification for this offer by having previously worked with The Author Buddy design team on a premade or custom cover design PRIOR to purchase. If an author has worked with us on ten cover designs, they may purchase up to ten packages.
Please Note: turnaround time for these orders is 5-7 weeks depending on order volume. No rush orders will be accepted.
☆ Platinum Developmental Reads and Platinum Line Edits are CLOSED for November & December 2024 ☆ Now accepting projects for 2025 for these services. Premium and Professional Level Reads and Proofreading have limited availability for November & December 2024, and … Read More
A Buddy Read is SO much more than a Beta Read! At The Author Buddy, our team of professional readers provide so much more than a standard Beta Read. Not only does our team share valuable reaction feedback so you … Read More
Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out and sent their well-wishes for our team and our families through the rough couple of months we’ve been having here. We appreciate y’all so much💜 We are sending our love … Read More
Premade Cover Design by Rachel of Christley Creatives
Title, Author Name, & Blurb can be changed after purchase.
For fonts, colors, or other revision requests, please select “I need additional revisions” under Customization Options.
☆ You will receive an email with customization information within 48 hours after your purchase is completed
Premade Cover Design by Rachel of Christley Creatives
Title, Author Name, & Blurb can be changed after purchase.
For fonts, colors, or other revision requests, please select “I need additional revisions” under Customization Options.
☆ You will receive an email with customization information within 48 hours after your purchase is completed
Premade Cover Design by Rachel of Christley Creatives
Title, Author Name, & Blurb can be changed after purchase.
For fonts, colors, or other revision requests, please select “I need additional revisions” under Customization Options.
☆ You will receive an email with customization information within 48 hours after your purchase is completed
Premade Cover Design by Rachel of Christley Creatives
Title, Author Name, & Blurb can be changed after purchase.
For fonts, colors, or other revision requests, please select “I need additional revisions” under Customization Options.
☆ You will receive an email with customization information within 48 hours after your purchase is completed
Premade Cover Design by Rachel of Christley Creatives
Title, Author Name, & Blurb can be changed after purchase.
For fonts, colors, or other revision requests, please select “I need additional revisions” under Customization Options.
☆ You will receive an email with customization information within 48 hours after your purchase is completed
Our Quick Pass service provides reaction feedback at the chapter level within the manuscript. This is great for between draft stages, or when you want quick reader feedback before publishing. Includes chapter-level in-line reaction feedback of:
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Buddy Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
Our Quick Pass service provides reaction feedback at the chapter level within the manuscript. This is great for between draft stages, or when you want quick reader feedback before publishing. Includes chapter-level in-line reaction feedback of:
This upgrade provides the same valuable reaction feedback as the Standard with a special focus on your steamy scenes to help you make your readers melt into a puddle of swoon!
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Buddy Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
Our experienced team of professional beta readers provide valuable reaction feedback to take your story to the next level, including analysis of:
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Buddy Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
Our Premium Beta Reading Service is perfect for the author seeking an affordable, but more in-depth, evaluation of their manuscript. Our Premium Beta Reading Service includes valuable reaction feedback and analysis of, as well as solutions and suggestions for:
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Buddy Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
We’re thrilled to now offer Developmental Editing for our authors who need an extensive evaluation of their story in it’s earlier writing stage. This service includes:
Our Developmental Editing service is most effective early in your writing process, as it includes story and conceptual editing.
Turnaround time for Developmental Editing requires at least 2 business days per 10k manuscript words. *LIMITED AVAILABILITY – Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
Includes single or double side design using the title, author name, and art from your finished cover, plus your website url and social media handles
For authors in need of an affordable story analysis beyond Beta Reading, we now offer Line Editing, where we provide extensive line-by-line feedback to help your story shine its brightest. This service includes:
Our Line Editing service is most effective later in your writing process, as it includes story and mechanical editing.
Turnaround time for Line Editing requires at least 2 business days per 10k manuscript words. *LIMITED AVAILABILITY – Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
Want more eyes on your manuscript? Add an additional reader at a discount!
Team Read Pricing when added to a Quick Pass
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
Team Read Pricing when added to a Professional Beta
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
Team Read Pricing when added to a Premium Beta
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
*Pricing is dependent upon the primary Beta Level chosen
Price per 1k words is in addition to the cost of the primary Beta Read
Our authors love this service where we pull the most eye-catching teasers from your book for use in promotional materials.
You’ll share your manuscript with us via Google Doc and we will highlight all of the wonderful quotes you’ve created that we think would ensnare a reader and work for teasers, snippets, and promotional graphics. That way, you can reference the context of the quote. We’ll also copy them into another doc, formatted and spaced for easy access whenever you need them.
We will never deliver less than 3 quotes for a novella or 5 quotes for a full-length novel, although there is no maximum!
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
Or Add-On the Quote & Teaser Service to any Beta Read and Save 40%!
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words – Add-On Pricing
Our Proofreading Service includes a quick pass of your manuscript for typos, missing words, and grammar and punctuation mistakes. While our readers occasionally make note of typos and other proofreading concerns as they see them, our Buddy Read packages do not include comprehensive proofreading by default.
Standalone
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
Or Add-On the Proofreading Service to any Buddy Read and Save 33%!
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words – Add-On Pricing
In this 30 minute Live Buddy Session, Rachel helps you work through any pesky plot holes or story struggles, offering a fresh perspective and brainstorm new outcomes together.
Special Launch Pricing
per 30 minute session
Our Quick Pass service provides reaction feedback at the chapter level within the manuscript. This is great for between draft stages, or when you want quick reader feedback before publishing. Includes chapter-level in-line reaction feedback of:
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Beta Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
Our Quick Pass service provides reaction feedback at the chapter level within the manuscript. This is great for between draft stages, or when you want quick reader feedback before publishing. Includes chapter-level in-line reaction feedback of:
This upgrade provides the same valuable reaction feedback as the Standard with a special focus on your steamy scenes to help you make your readers melt into a puddle of swoon!
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Beta Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
Our experienced team of professional beta readers provide valuable reaction feedback to take your story to the next level, including analysis of:
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Beta Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
Our Premium Beta Reading Service is perfect for the author seeking an affordable, but more in-depth, evaluation of their manuscript. Our Premium Beta Reading Service includes valuable reaction feedback and analysis of, as well as solutions and suggestions for:
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Beta Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
We’re thrilled to now offer Developmental Editing for our authors who need an extensive evaluation of their story in it’s earlier writing stage. This service includes:
Our Developmental Editing service is most effective early in your writing process, as it includes story and conceptual editing.
Turnaround time for Developmental Editing requires at least 2 business days per 10k manuscript words. *LIMITED AVAILABILITY – Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*
per 1,000 manuscript words
Includes single or double side design using the title, author name, and art from your finished cover, plus your website url and social media handles
For authors in need of an affordable story analysis beyond Beta Reading, we now offer Line Editing, where we provide extensive line-by-line feedback to help your story shine its brightest. This service includes:
Our Line Editing service is most effective later in your writing process, as it includes story and mechanical editing.
Turnaround time for Line Editing requires at least 2 business days per 10k manuscript words. *LIMITED AVAILABILITY – Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*
per 1,000 manuscript words
Want more eyes on your manuscript? Add an additional Beta Reader at a discount!
Team Read Pricing when added to a Quick Pass
per 1,000 manuscript words
Team Read Pricing when added to a Professional Beta
per 1,000 manuscript words
Team Read Pricing when added to a Premium Beta
per 1,000 manuscript words
*Pricing is dependent upon the primary Beta Level chosen
Price per 1k words is in addition to the cost of the primary Beta Read
Our authors love this service where we pull the most eye-catching teasers from your book for use in promotional materials.
You’ll share your manuscript with us via Google Doc and we will highlight all of the wonderful quotes you’ve created that we think would ensnare a reader and work for teasers, snippets, and promotional graphics. That way, you can reference the context of the quote. We’ll also copy them into another doc, formatted and spaced for easy access whenever you need them.
We will never deliver less than 3 quotes for a novella or 5 quotes for a full-length novel, although there is no maximum!
per 1,000 manuscript words
Or Add-On the Quote & Teaser Service to any Beta Read and Save 40%!
per 1,000 manuscript words – Add-On Pricing
Our Proofreading Service includes a quick pass of your manuscript for typos, missing words, and grammar and punctuation mistakes. While our Beta Readers occasionally make note of typos and other proofreading concerns as they see them, our Beta Reading packages do not include comprehensive proofreading by default.
per 1,000 manuscript words
Or Add-On the Proofreading Service to any Beta Read and Save 33%!
per 1,000 manuscript words – Add-On Pricing
In this 30 minute Live Buddy Session, Rachel helps you work through any pesky plot holes or story struggles, offering a fresh perspective and brainstorm new outcomes together.
per 30 minute session
Formatted for publishing on KDP
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Included FREE with all premade and custom cover orders
Includes TWO (2) graphics using the title and author name from your finished cover:
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Starting at $30 add-on price for premade and regular custom cover orders
Starting at $50 add-on price for advanced custom cover orders
Reformatting your cover for Paperback using your finished cover, trim size, paper color, page count, and blurb.
There may be an additional fee for acquiring additional images depending on trim size, or an additional licensing fee for larger print runs.
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Starting at $40 add-on price for premade and custom cover orders
Starting at $60 add-on price for advanced custom cover orders
Reformatting your cover for Hardback (including wrap) using your finished cover, trim size, paper color, page count, and blurb.
There may be an additional fee for acquiring larger source images depending on trim size, or an additional licensing fee for larger print runs.
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
$50 add-on price for premade and custom cover orders
Reformatting your cover for Audiobook (2400x2400px) using the title, author name, and art from your finished cover.
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
$15 add-on price for premade and custom cover orders (regular price $20)
Includes TWO (2) graphics using the title, author name, and art from your finished cover:
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
$25 add-on price for premade and custom cover orders (regular price $30)
Includes THREE (3) square graphics using your finished cover:
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
$40 add-on price for premade and custom cover orders (regular price $50)
Includes one set of THREE (3) full width graphics for use with the KDP Standard Image Module using the art from your finished cover. We will use your book blurb to write promotional text to catch readers’ eye.
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Single side design: $25 add-on price for premade and custom cover orders (regular price $30)
Double side design: $45 (regular $50)
Includes single or double side design using the title, author name, and art from your finished cover, plus your website url and social media handles
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Choose the Social Media Graphics Set as your FREE add-on to any cover order, or as a standard add-on for $15.
Includes TWO (2) finished graphics:
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Choose the Title Graphics Set as your FREE add-on to any cover order, or as a standard add-on for $15.
Choose the Cover Reveal Graphics Set as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $5, or as a standard add-on for $20.
Includes FOUR (4) finished graphics:
We will email you after your order is complete to request your choice of “coming soon” or a date in your graphics.
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Choose the Countdown Graphics Set as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $5, or as a standard add-on for $20.
Choose the 3D Renders Graphics Set as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $10, or as a standard add-on for $25.
Includes SIX (6) finished graphics:
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Choose the Amazon KDP A+ Content Set as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $25, or as a standard add-on for $40.
Choose the Audiobook Cover as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $25, or as a standard add-on for $40.
Choose the Kindle Vella Story Cover as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $25, or as a standard add-on for $40.
Choose the Promo Graphics Set as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $25, or as a standard add-on for $40.
Choose the New Release Set as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $60 ($40 savings), or as a standard add-on for $100.