#Book Covers

[rubyjones]

Whoop! Whoop! I've cross-posted my article 'Create your own book cover - without generative AI' to Medium!

This will hopefully make it accessible to those who can't access Patreon. Medium also lets me add alt-text and uncensored images.

If you've enjoyed this, you might also find my next article useful:

I'm hoping to make a series of these guides over on my Patreon. If you find them useful, please consider signing up to support me. The guides are free to all anyway, but I'm too sick to work, so the Unconditional Love tier is basically a way to donate to support a disabled creator. It also gives you access to Synthetic Agency, the spicy android romance novel I'm currently serialising!

Too many writers are using generative 'AI' to make their book covers, so I've written a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap without turning to a machine.

If you can't afford to pay an artist, you CAN make your own!

I hope this is a helpful overview that covers the basics and points to some free resources.

[Edit:] this is getting well outside this account's usual reach and a few people in the notes are making not so great comments about the fact I write weird erotica. So, for full disclosure: yes, I am an erotica writer. And the book covers include those for tentacle erotica and robot erotic romance. But you cannot see anything NSFW. All of these covers were approved by Amazon. Frankly, the cover of the most NSFW story, Oviposition, is downright tame! And to those complaining about the word 'Oviposition', that is a scientific word for a naturally occurring phenomenon - it's only naughty if you know the content of the story, which is only alluded to as 'sexy'.

I also do not believe that shirtless men require a warning, but yeah, two of the covers have shirtless men. The cover with a tasteful nude drawing (showing a bum, but not a weenor) has already been censored.

I can't do anything about the version of this post that got rb'd by a popular person, but for those who are concerned, consider this your content warning.

[callmedaisy]

Vintage book covers

[carlytayjepsen]

Songs from The Tortured Poets Department as Penguin Modern Classics ✨

[winged-demons-and-co]

Oh these are beautiful. Raphael should take notes

-Gabriel

beautiful book covers

[thefugitivesaint]

Alex Tsao, 'The Sketch Book'' by Washington Irving, 1961 Source

[alkiores]

The Mistress of the Copper Mountain or The Malachite Maid My book cover for a collection of folk tales compiled by Pavel Bazhov.

[clem8tis]

1st ed. vc andrews covers by milton charles & gillian hills

[bluebellbanshee]

Gothic Heroine Book Cover

[garlandedspirits]

Book bindings for various editions of Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du mal”

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Choose Your Own Adventure books - Bantam Books (covers from 1979 to 1985)

[kosmos-fantastika]

Aleksandr Kuzin - When Worlds Collide (USSR, 1974)

artists: Galina Boyko and Igor Shalito

[mydaylight]

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson: English covers

[callmedaisy]

Here comes fall!

[the-forest-library]

the collection is almost complete

[haunthouse]

at long last my attempt at collecting every single cover of hill house is live! 125+ covers, sortable by publishing date, language, and whether it's a movie/tv tie-in cover. if you know any more that aren't on here, leave a comment on the site so i can add them!