#book covers

[hometoursandotherstuff]

 Z from the 1998 animated film Antz.

[godzilla-reads]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, book covers

[rubyjones]

Create your own book cover - without generative 'AI' | Ruby Jones

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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.

[cubistemoji]

Some observations on book covers

Edit because apparently this needs to be said: the point of a book cover is to tell you what you're about to read and whether or not you want to read it. Following trends in cover design doesn't mean the book is bad or had a bad cover designer. It's visual communication. I've read and enjoyed about half the books featured here.

[thefugitivesaint]

Hiro Kimura, ''Howling Mad'' by Peter David, 1989 Premise: Wolf is bitten by a werewolf and turns into a man on full moon nights. That's the gist of it.

[academic-vampire]

𝔭𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢

[charnel-grounds]

— Marc C. Green