Sadly not, no.  There are two main reasons for this – the first is that our experience has shown that outside influence can take a professional-looking cover and turn it into the type of cover you see where an author with no design background has attempted to make their own.  When a professional designer creates a cover in a certain way, they do it for very specific reasons and the opinions of laymen will tend to taint the concept, often to the point where it not only bears no resemblance to the original cover but can also harm the cover’s ability to convey the correct message.  We’ve not only had clients who have reached completion with their project, perfectly happy with everything, and then been urged to make countless changes by friends, family, and even strangers within groups, and ultimately shelved the entire project as they didn’t know which way to turn.  Other clients have had the cover designed to their exact requirements, been over the moon with them, and then had everything turned upside down by an outside influence and ended up with a cover that we’ve had to distance ourselves from because it’s been so bad.  The other, less important but more legal, reason is that until the project has been paid for, the author has no right to any of the imagery used and is therefore not permitted to publish it to any public or private group.  It’s a simple question of publication rights – it’s not yet their image to publish anywhere.  If you have concerns with anything… talk to us about it!

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