Mark Thomas - Designer
A highly collaborative designer, producing impactful covers, interiors and marketing images for a wide range of genres. I cannot scuba dive.
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Overview
5+ years in business. Over 350 book collaborations. 235+ Reedsy 5-Star reviews :-)
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A book cover and interior format designer, with many (many!) years of multi-discipline creative experience in graphics, illustration, photography, video & marketing.
Happy working for either print or e-book / digital, I like direct, punchy and – occasionally – intriguing (in my book covers!). Oftentimes my work is character-focussed and photographically-based.
On occasion, some of my work may now include little bits of CGI. (Oh, my giddy Aunt... '.' )
Client-centric, highly collaborative and quality driven: your needs are mine to fulfil (and are normally fulfilled quickly, too).
All of my design offers - whether for e-book, print, or both - always include promotional images such as simulated 3D paperback and hardcover book covers, on-device ebook cover renders. Nice!
I provide full interior formatting services for both print and ebook; whether with cover design or just interiors only. For such work, a first interior proof is normally back to the client within 2-3 working days from receipt of manuscript.
My interior layouts are completely professional in appearance and can include full-image title pages, use of cover fonts for chapter headings (print versions only), drop capitals for starts of chapters and excellent attention to detail and flow. (Psst: ask me for some of my interior samples!).
I can also advise on technical matters, marketing options and even book titles, taglines and back cover blurbs, if needs be.
My motto: always a pleasure, never a chore. *nods*
:-)
Full Book Design Service List:
Any or all of the following services can be commissioned either together, or totally separately from each other (a good example here: if another designer is already doing your book cover design, I’m totally happy to do the interior formatting elements…)
• Print book cover design (inc. paperback, dustjacket hardback and case-laminate hardback)
• Ebook cover design
• Print book interior formatting & design
• Ebook interior formatting & design
• Book promotional images (ie: simulated images of your finished print book or ebook)
Author Website Design:
These include various pages, image galleries, blogs, contact forms and more.
Website packages include design, hosting and support for the first year, with further annual support available on the site's anniversary.
You can find full details - and examples - of my web design services via my separate Reedsy web developer account:
https://reedsy.com/mark-thomas-webdev
Languages
English
Fiction
African American Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Historical Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Science Fiction
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Work experience
Designer / Owner
Self-employed
March, 2016
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Present
(over 6 years)
I own and run my own busy book design and media illustration company, providing a full range of services to traditional and self-publishers. Services include interior and cover design, marketing imagery and adaptable author website design.
Head of Creative Services
Visit Wales
August, 2012
–
June, 2015
(almost 3 years)
Creative Services Manager
Visit Wales
May, 2011
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August, 2012
(over 1 year)
Mark has 238 reviews
Professionalism
Professionalism
Quality
Quality
Value
Value
Communication & Punctuality
Communication & Punctuality
Mark Thomas is one of the most professional people I have ever dealt with in any endeavor, not just publishing. He cares for your project as if it were his own.
Jim Keene, September 2022
Mark is a total professional - prompt, courteous, and talented. Been a pleasure working with him for an entire series of books. They couldn’t have come out better.
Nicholas Austin, August 2022
It's an absolute delight to work with Mark. Thoroughly professional and friendly. Can't recommend highly enough.
Darren Floyd, August 2022
Working with Mark has been a pivotal point in the journey to get my manuscript published. He is extremely knowledgeable, very easy to work with, and there was excellent communication throughout. I can recommend Mark wholeheartedly.
Charles Challis, August 2022
Asking Mark to create my cover and book interiors was one of the best decisions I've made for my debut novel. He helped me to quickly generate cover ideas and then iterated through them to arrive at a good baseline. Then he refined and polished them through several more passes, with every step getting closer to my ideal. The same process went for the interiors - his expertise guided me past sev...
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Craig Heath, July 2022
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