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Design for small businesses & creatives

Websites and social media for small businesses, and book covers and thumbnails for authors and creators, all designed by me from a small studio in Wigan.

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What I do

Design for the people behind the work.

For small businesses

A website people trust, and a feed that keeps showing up.

Most of my business clients come to me because they want the technical side off their plate. I design and build the website, set it up so Google and AI search tools understand what you do, and if you'd like, keep your social media running as well.

Websitesfrom £200 Social mediafrom £120 a month

For authors and creators

Covers and thumbnails that make someone stop scrolling.

Book covers for independent authors, from the first sketch through to print-ready wraps, and YouTube thumbnails designed to be read at a glance on a phone screen, where most people will see them.

Book coversfrom £100 Thumbnailsfrom £50

I also design logos and brand identities and shoot brand photography around Wigan.

Plan builder

Tell me about your business, get a plan made to order.

Write a few lines in your own words about what you do and what you'd like more of, and you'll get a plan of what would help most, in the order I'd do it, with starting prices. You don't need to know any marketing terms, it takes about two minutes, and a copy lands in your inbox to keep.

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Example plan for a café

Your plan

Start here

One-page websitefrom £200

Your menu, opening hours and a map, set up for searches like café near me.

Google Business Profileafter a chat

Next

Social mediafrom £120 a month

3 posts, 2 short videos and 5 stories a week

Half-day photo shoot£250 to £300
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The Junior Agent Jack website home page, with the four book covers fanned out on a blue background

Websites

A website that does some of the selling.

I design and build websites for small businesses that want to look established without having to learn the technical side themselves. Each one is planned around what your customers search for, quick to load on a phone, and can grow to include bookings, a shop, galleries or something interactive.

That includes the Junior Agent Jack site for author Zoe Rogers, with its own shop and games, a website for EMH Northwest, a Wigan building firm, and one for Suzanne Winnard's SATs tutoring.

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Book covers

Covers built to hold the whole story.

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Choose a book to take it off the shelf.

  • Beneath Your Fears book cover by Shadowthread Stories

    Beneath Your Fears

    Shadowthread Stories

  • Knight Errant book cover

    Knight Errant

    Dark fantasy novel

  • The Comet Core book cover by Groth Beserk

    The Comet Core

    Groth Beserk

  • Seas of the Damned book cover by Shadowthread Stories

    Seas of the Damned

    Shadowthread Stories

  • The Fate of the Morning book cover by Zamora De Leon

    The Fate of the Morning

    Zamora De Leon

  • Cold Spring book cover by Anon Barrett Jimenez

    Cold Spring

    Anon Barrett Jimenez

YouTube thumbnails

Made to be read in a second.

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Thumbnail for The Keeper: a white sea serpent rising over a fleet of sailing ships at sunset Alternate thumbnail for The Keeper Thumbnail for The Light Isn't For Ships, a lighthouse story

“I have ordered several thumbnails, a banner, and a PFP for my several channels and have been very happy with each purchase. The prices are fair, the quality is excellent, and the speed and communication is very professional. Very fortunate to be working with this artist!”

Dubach The KeeperYouTube creator, thumbnails, banner and profile picture

“Very talented and professional. I would definitely recommend their services! They know what makes people click on the video!”

VVlatsisYouTube creator, thumbnail

Selected work

Work worth wanting.

Beneath Your Fears book cover: six doors, two open with red light, and the title in white serif capitals

Beneath Your Fears

Horror Book Cover
Solara Studio brand identity

Solara Studio

Identity & Brand World
Santi skincare brand identity

Santi

Brand Identity & Packaging
Julie Cummins Lymphatic Therapy brand identity

Julie Cummins

Identity & Wellness Branding
Knight Errant book cover design

Knight Errant

Book Cover Illustration
DTD Real Estate brand identity

Dory Tucker Doyle

Real Estate Identity
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Two copies of Beneath Your Fears stacked at an angle, showing the six-door front cover and the spine

Featured case study

Beneath Your Fears

A horror anthology cover built on one rule, that every story gets its own door, taken from the author's first mockup through three concepts, five title treatments and a single red to a finished paperback wrap and Kindle cover.

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Start a project

Not sure what you need, or what it costs?

Describe your business in your own words and the plan builder will put together exactly what would help, in the order I'd do it, with starting prices. You don't need to know any of the marketing terms. If you already know what you want, the brief takes about two minutes and comes straight to me.

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Or, if you know what you need

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