How does Coffin Print Design Service work? 

THE BOOK COVER DESIGN PROCESS WITH COFFIN PRINT DESIGN

Stage 1 - First Contact & Booking

​- Your initial email should include the following:

• the number of covers you need,

• the genre,

• and the preferred timeline for design (deadlines for each cover). If Possible, a brief about the cover or covers in question, with more information of what to include in the brief check here for our brief, brief guideline ^^

- We will email you back proposed dates that are available.

- After we agree on the dates, you will be asked to send a deposit of 25% for each spot you want to book. (PayPal invoice) For more details about deposit - The deposit is NON REFUNDABLE.

- Should you need to discuss the cover or add information at any time between the booking and the production of the first draft, feel free to email us coffinprintdesign@gmail.com . 

Revisions that result from an incorrect or incomplete brief:
A correctly completed brief decreases unnecessary revisions, saving you time and money. Revision requests arising from missing, inconsistent or wrong information you provided on the brief may incur extra charges, starting from £20.

Stage 2: Cover Design

- Project start confirmation: If you booked well in advance, we will also ask you to read the brief you sent and update it if necessary.
 
- First draft: After going over the brief and our conversation, our cover designer will approach your project like a deer in a mystical woodland finding a safe seeming water supply. Your first cover proposal will arrive on the agreed date or sooner. If you could please send us your feedback or revision request (if needed) in a timely manner, ideally within 2 days.
 
- Revisions: Our packages include revisions. However, revisions that result from an incorrect or incomplete brief will incur extra charges (as stated previously.) The same goes if you decide to change the direction/concept of the cover after we have already started working on it ( e.g. you requested a symbol-based cover, but then change your mind and request a new concept with people). Please note, Coffin Print Design has the right to accept or decline any design request. As a general rule, we will not be happy till you are.

- Final approval: When you are completely happy and approve the final front/eBook cover design, your cover will be checked and sized depending on specifications and page count where possible.

- Please consider: Custom cover packages, prices do not vary based on the genre but on what is included in the package with promotional graphics and the likes, but when designing the cover if there is something specific like a scene or a MC in a non-standard pose, battle or  situation or even armour/attire as well as facial expression then it might be recommended that you hire a custom illustrator.  

Stage 3: Handover
 
- Handover: All final high-res files will be delivered to you by email. Files will arrive in an email with usually the book title or the author name in the subject line.
 
please make sure you go through all the files delivered in the handover to make sure everything is in order.

The client is fully responsible for proofing the book cover design provided by Coffin Print Design. It is strongly suggested that the client requests a proof from the printer before publishing or ordering any copies of the book. At no time will Coffin Print Design be held financially or legally responsible for any problems, costs, fees, or expenses incurred by the client as a result of using the book cover design.

IMPORTANT: Approving the cover art

When you approve the final front cover art, please make sure you are 100% certain that no other changes are needed.
Changing the art elements on the cover after you've approved the cover art (or after we deliver the final files) is possible, but (significant) additional charges apply, starting from £50.

Making any kind of change on the art after you approve the design means that:
- we have to go into the art layers
- strip all effects from the art
- make the requested change ( sometimes on several layers/items)
- re-apply all effects over the art, and revise all the files already finalized /delivered, using the new art.

This is a minimum 2-hour job, but it can take more time than that, depending on the scope of the change (do we need to search for new stock if you want to change the MC, does moving certain items mean we need to rearrange/change other items as well to accommodate the new composition, etc). Therefore, we can't offer a fixed rate for those kinds of revisions. But any change that requires editing the art, no matter how small, will be charged a minimum of £50.

The number of revisions covered:

We do not limit the number of revisions, within reason.
Most revisions and fine-tuning of a cover design are not charged extra, with some exceptions.

Exception #1: Revisions requested because you changed your mind
If you requested a certain colour scheme and then decided on a different one, or if you chose a particular model and then want a different one after the initial proposal/concept is created, you will be charged extra. If we provided a mock-up for the MC pose/composition which you approved, and then you changed your mind when we created a high-resolution proposal, you will be charged extra. These additional fees start at £20 for a colour change, and can go up to £50 for a bigger change like switching to a different model after approval.
 
Exception #2:  New concept request
We provided the concept based on the brief you filled out. You liked it and asked for revisions, but mid-project, you decide you want to change the concept completely, such as we have been working on a "people cover" and you decide to switch to a "symbol cover." In those cases, a £100 "kill fee" will be requested. This means you will have to pay for the work done if you want us to scrap the design. After the kill fee has been paid, the previous design will be scrapped, and we will start from the beginning. The new design will be charged at standard rates, of course.
 

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND: For the most part, we engage in photo manipulation, meaning that we use stock photos for our covers. We don't hire illustrators. This means that if you have a very distinctive MC (unique clothes, facial expression) or a highly individual item that you want to be represented in detail on the cover, then we highly recommend that you consider hiring an illustrator. If something you've described (clothes or an object) isn't available by means of stock photos, then we can't put it on the cover.