Books & publishing
AI Book Cover Generator
Readers judge books by their covers because it works: genre is a visual language, and a browser on Amazon decides in about a second whether your thumbnail says "epic fantasy" or "self-published in Word." Getting cover art that speaks your genre's conventions is the single biggest packaging upgrade an indie author can make.
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Describe your book's premise, pick a genre, and set a mood. The generator renders in that genre's visual code — painterly scale for fantasy, stark shadows for thrillers, golden light for romance — at the 2:3 ratio Amazon KDP and most retailers expect. The composition deliberately holds space at the top for your title and at the bottom for your author name, so the art works as a cover and not just an illustration.
Iterate cheaply before you commit. Generate covers for three different moods of the same premise, put them side by side at thumbnail size, and see which one still reads. Then add typography and you have a working cover for an ebook launch, an ARC, or a pitch — or a precise brief to hand a cover designer for the final edition.
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Frequently asked questions
- What size are the generated covers?
- Covers generate at a 2:3 ratio — the same proportions as Amazon KDP's recommended 1600×2560 ebook cover — at roughly 680×1024 pixels, which clears KDP's 1000-pixel minimum for the longest side. To hit KDP's recommended 2560 pixels, upscale the finished art in any image editor before uploading.
- Does it add my title and author name?
- No, and you shouldn't want it to — AI image models render typography unreliably, and a garbled title is an instant credibility killer. The generator produces the cover art with space deliberately reserved at the top and bottom; set your title and author name in a tool like Canva, Affinity, or BookBrush, where you control the font exactly.
- Can I publish a book with an AI-generated cover?
- Yes. Amazon KDP accepts AI-generated cover art and asks you to disclose AI-generated images during the publishing flow (the disclosure is to Amazon, not printed anywhere). One caveat worth knowing: under current US Copyright Office guidance, purely AI-generated artwork has limited copyright protection, which matters if exclusivity of the art itself is important to you.
- Why does the genre option matter so much?
- Because readers shelf-scan by visual convention: muted symbolic covers say literary fiction, glowing painterly vistas say fantasy, stark type-and-shadow says thriller. A cover that ignores its genre's code doesn't read as original — it reads as miscategorized, and browsers scroll past. Each genre option maps to those conventions directly.
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