FAQ – The Author Buddy

FAQs & Help Center

It can be tough to know what to do whether you’re new to publishing or new to The Author Buddy, so we’ve put together all of the answers you need to get the best experience we can provide!

General FAQs

The Author Buddy is run by two real life buddies, Rachel Christley and Perrin Brunson. Learn more about us here!

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No, we only sell each Premade Book Cover Design once. We never resell covers.

However, the images used in creating most of our premade cover designs are stock photos and are not exclusive to the author who purchases the premade cover design, so another author may have a cover that uses some of the same source images as the ones used on your cover.

We pride ourselves in creating unique Premade Book Cover Designs though, and regularly check online to see if other book cover designs are using similar images so we can try to avoid too similar designs.

If the artwork used in a Premade is original artwork, it is noted in the premade cover design listing.

Our specialty is Romance Book Cover Design, but we also offer designs for other genres. If you have a specific genre in mind and want to discuss it with us, feel free to email us at hello@theauthorbuddy.com.

Absolutely. For more information about custom cover design, visit our Custom Cover page here.

Of course! We love showing off our Portfolio!

Credit in your book is certainly not required, but we do appreciate it!

If you purchased a Premade Book Cover designed by Perrin, or worked with her on a Custom Cover Project, please credit “Perrin of The Author Buddy.”

If you purchased a Premade Book Cover designed by Rachel, or worked with her on a Custom Cover Project, please credit “Rachel of The Author Buddy.”

If you purchased a Premade Book Cover from our website and aren’t sure of the designer, please contact us for that information, or credit “The Author Buddy.”

If you hired us for a Beta Read, Proofread, Line-Edit, or Quote & Teaser Service, please credit “The Author Buddy.”

Technically, no.

As the purchaser, once final payment is received, you will be granted exclusive license to the use of the final cover artwork for your book and promotional materials. No one else may use that artwork for their book.

We (The Author Buddy and Christley Creatives) retain full rights of the finished artwork as the cover designer (meaning you cannot claim that you designed the cover yourself), as well as the right to showcase all of the covers and other artwork we create in our portfolio and promotional materials, but we cannot resell them or reuse them in new Premade or Custom designs.

As most of our designs use stock photography/imagery, please note that the designs are also still bound by the terms of the stock imagery usage license, and the stock images still legally belong to the original creator. Most of the stock images we use in our designs are licensed under the Standard License.

Book Cover artwork should not be modified in any way. If you need revisions to your design in the future, please email us at hello@theauthorbuddy.com.

Absolutely! There may be an additional fee depending on the revisions needed. Please email us at hello@theauthorbuddy.com to discuss the details of the revision request.

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Premade Book Cover Design
Custom Cover Design
Cover Add-ons like Hardback Covers, Audiobook Covers, Social Media Graphics, Event Graphics, Bookmarks/Swag, Amazon A+ Content graphics – you can select these services when you place your Premade or Custom Cover order
Beta Reading
Line Editing
Quote & Teaser Service
Author / Book Promotions
We often fill requests from our authors for other graphics not listed here, and we’re always adding new services! So if you don’t see what you need listed here, email us, and we’ll see what we can do!