Omair Saddiq©

Omair Saddiq — Book Cover Designer for KDP, IngramSpark & Amazon bestsellers. Custom book cover design, print-ready paperback wraps, eBook JPEGs, hand-coded EPUB, audiobook covers, 3D mockups and series branding.

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Book cover designer · 8+ years · 400+ covers shipped · Top-Rated on Upwork · Print-ready for KDP, IngramSpark, Lulu & Draft2Digital

Now booking · 2026 releases
Based in Lahore, Pakistan
Local time ·
Open to work
Omair Saddiq — Book Cover Designer
Omair SaddiqPK · Est. 2018
(01)
The designer
(02) / About

Book covers engineered to sell — not just look good on screen.

I'm Omair Saddiq — a Top-Rated book cover designer, 8 years in, 400+ covers shipped for self-published authors, small presses and publishing houses. Bestsellers and award winners across romance, fantasy, thriller, mystery, sci-fi, literary, business, self-help, memoir and children's.

  • 01 Genre-researched typography & colour
  • 02 Reads at Amazon thumbnail size
  • 03 Print-ready KDP / IngramSpark / Lulu
  • 04 0.125" bleed · safe trim · CMYK
  • 05 Hand-coded EPUB + audiobook square
  • 06 3D mockups in the same handoff

Collaborative, transparent, fast — one designer start to finish, honest revision rounds, no hand-offs to juniors. Most clients come back for the sequel, the series, and the next author they refer.

(03) / The Shelf

Covers that earned the click.

(01)
Cover Design & Print Prep
2025
Business

The Invisible Script

A business book cover engineered to convert at Amazon thumbnail — bold wordmark, decisive palette, and a paperback wrap prepped to exact KDP + IngramSpark spine, bleed and trim.

(04) / Before · After

Drag to reveal

The redesign that unstuck the launch.

A cover has one job — earn the click at Amazon thumbnail. Drag the handle on each to see what changed: hierarchy, wordmark, palette, and the small typographic decisions that separate a hobby cover from a bestseller-shelf one.

Crown of Embers — final cover by Omair Saddiq
Crown of Embers — original cover before redesign
BeforeAfter — Omair
Crown of Embers · Fantasy Redesign
The Invisible Script — final cover by Omair Saddiq
The Invisible Script — original cover before redesign
BeforeAfter — Omair
The Invisible Script · Business Redesign
Ivy — final cover by Omair Saddiq
Ivy — original cover before redesign
BeforeAfter — Omair
Ivy · Mystery Redesign
(05) / Thumbnail test

Does it survive the thumbnail?

Readers decide in under a second, at the size of a postage stamp. Pick a cover and see how it holds up next to others on a simulated Amazon results page.

Search grid · 110px

The Invisible Script
Crown of Embers
Bound by Scarlet Vows
Ivy
Soul & Salt
Theology of Drift Feet

Also bought · 80px

The Invisible Script
Crown of Embers
Bound by Scarlet Vows
Ivy
Soul & Salt
Theology of Drift Feet

Mobile list · 56px

The Invisible Script
Crown of Embers
Bound by Scarlet Vows
Ivy
Soul & Salt
Theology of Drift Feet
(06) / Case studies

Problem. Process. result.

Business

The Invisible Script

problem

Self-made cover blended into the category — clicks were flat despite strong reviews.

solution

Rebuilt around a single bold wordmark and high-contrast palette tuned for thumbnail legibility.

result

Cleaner shelf presence and a print-ready wrap accepted first time on KDP and IngramSpark.

Fantasy

Series branding

problem

Book one looked nothing like the genre's bestsellers; book two was on the way.

solution

Created a repeatable system — title lockup, ornament, colour per volume — for the whole series.

result

Each new release now reads instantly as part of the same series in search results.

Memoir

A personal story, made shelf-ready

problem

The author's family photo felt like a scrapbook rather than a published book.

solution

Restored the image, framed it with restrained serif typography and generous space.

result

A cover the author was proud to launch, with matching eBook, paperback and audiobook files.

(04b) / Testimonials

What authors say after launch.

★★★★★ · Top-Rated on Upwork
★★★★★
01 / 04
“Omair delivered a cover that outsold every previous version of the book within a month of relaunch. His grasp of thumbnail psychology is unreal — he didn't just design a cover, he engineered a conversion.”
Andy Barker · Business Author · USA
★★★★★
02 / 04
“Eight covers in, and each one has locked perfectly into the series brand. Fast, thoughtful, and he actually reads the manuscript before he touches Photoshop. Rare.”
R. Vale · Fantasy Author · UK
★★★★★
03 / 04
“I came to Omair after two other designers ghosted me. He replied in three hours, quoted honestly, and shipped print-ready KDP + IngramSpark files that uploaded first try. This is his profession — not a side hustle.”
Lihi Alroy · Literary Author · Israel
★★★★★
04 / 04
“The 3D mockups alone paid for the project — I used them across launch ads and pre-order graphics. But the real win is the cover itself. It looks like a Big Five romance release.”
S. Merritt · Romance Author · Canada
400+ covers shipped · 8 years · Bestseller & award-winning titlesRead more on Upwork ↗
(04) / Services

Book cover design services — what I make and ship.

Design philosophy

(Manifesto — 01)

A book cover has one job — stop the scroll, then earn the click.

I work the whole cover in a single pair of hands: concept, illustration direction, typography, spine, and back-blurb layout — right through to the print-ready file. Every paperback and hardcover wrap ships tight to KDP and IngramSpark spec, on time, and built to sell the book inside it.

(07) / Spine calculator

Your paperback, measured.

Paper
Trim (in)

Spine

0.676"

Full wrap width

12.926"

Wrap height

9.250"

Estimate based on KDP specs incl. 0.125" bleed. Final files are built to your exact printer template.

Design this paperback — from $115 →
(05) / Portfolio

A taste of the shelf.

12 of 115+ covers · 9 genres

Filter by genre · Toggle 3D mockup / paperback wrap · Open full lightbox on the archive page.

See all 115+ covers→
(06) / Contact

Your next
bestseller
starts here.

Send the full brief — title, genre, trim size, page count and launch date — and I'll come back with a fixed quote, a realistic timeline and two or three directions worth exploring. Prefer to keep it short? Drop a quick message and we'll take it from there.

Start a brief →Send a message →
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