Custom Book Covers · Paperback, Hardcover & eBook

A cover that sells your book, designed for your book.

Cantos reads your vision, paints original artwork, and designs three complete covers for you to choose from. Then you refine your favorite until it is exactly right, and download press-ready files for KDP, IngramSpark, and Lulu, the eBook cover, your background artwork, and the layered design master. All of it yours to keep, for $99.99.

Design My Cover

Prefer a taste first? Try Cantos free on your interior, 30 pages, no credit card.

Your story and your artwork stay yours. Never used to train AI.

A complete book cover designed by Cantos: original night-lighthouse artwork with full wrap typography

An actual cover designed by Cantos, artwork and typography.

70,000+ Authors Served · 15 Years of Publishing Craft · 300,000+ Books Published

From the team behind BookDesignTemplates.com, trusted by first-time authors since 2011. Real people who have designed books for fifteen years, now working for you.

As seen on Amazon KDP · IngramSpark · BookBaby · Lightning Source · The Huffington Post · The Creative Penn · BAIPA · PBS

How It Works

Three covers. You choose. You refine.

1Tell Cantos your vision

Your title, your genre, and the scene you picture. Cantos paints original artwork from your direction. Already have artwork you love? Bring your own and Cantos designs around it.

2Choose from three complete covers

Cantos designs and polishes three finished covers, artwork and typography together. You pick the one that feels like your book. No AI picks the winner. You do.

3Refine it, then download everything

Adjust wording, sizes, colors, and placement, or just tell Cantos what to change in plain language. Then download every format, sized to each printer's exact specification.

What You Receive

Every file a published book needs.

Paperback wrapFront, spine, and back in one press-ready PDF, with your ISBN barcode placed to spec.

Hardcover case wrapFull case layout with hinges and bleed, ready for KDP, IngramSpark, or Lulu.

eBook front coverA crisp retail-ready image for Kindle and every other store.

Your background artworkThe original painted art with no text, perfect for your website and marketing.

The layered design masterEvery element on its own layer, so you or any designer can edit it later. Yours to keep.

Per-printer specificationsExact trim, spine, and bleed math for each printer you publish with. No guesswork.

One App, The Whole Book

Cantos handles the full stack.

Interior, cover, copy editing, and the marketing kit, all in one place, each $99.99, with bundles that save up to $150. Start with what you need today and add the rest whenever you are ready. Everything stays with your project.

InteriorTypeset like a real book. Try it free. CoverYou are here. Copy EditingThree ways to work, your voice kept. Marketing Kit18 pieces, written from your book.

Why We Built This

A note from Tracy Atkins, founder

Fifteen years ago, my team and I started BookDesignTemplates.com because first-time authors kept telling us the same thing: I wrote the book, but I have no idea how to make it look like a real one. Since then more than 70,000 authors have trusted our designs, and more than 300,000 books have been published with our work inside them.

Cantos is the next step. It is not a gimmick that spits out AI slop for you to fix. It is a professionally trained book designer that reads every word you wrote and sets it with a craftsman's care, so your book looks made, not generated.

And your words stay yours. We claim no copyright on your book. We never use your manuscript to train AI. We built this for authors, by people who have spent their lives around books. You bring the story. We help you cross the finish line.

Tracy Atkins, founder

Before You Start

The questions authors ask about covers.

Can I use my own artwork or photo?

Yes. Upload your own artwork, front-only or a full wrap, and Cantos designs the typography around it. A front-only image gets a complementary spine and back drawn from your photo's own palette.

What if I do not like any of the three covers?

Ask for a fresh set, refine the closest one in plain language ("make the title bigger and gold, move my name up"), or start over from scratch with new artwork. Your purchase includes a generous pool of revision passes to spend however you like.

Which printers and formats are covered?

Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, and Lulu, in paperback and hardcover (case wrap), each built to that printer's own trim, spine, and bleed specification, plus the eBook front cover. Check every printer you publish with and Cantos prepares files for each.

Do I own the cover?

Completely. The artwork, the finished files, and the layered design master are yours, with no copyright claim from us. You can edit the master in Photoshop or any tool that opens layered files, or hand it to any designer, any time.

Is my book used to train AI?