Design a book cover
Cover concepts that signal genre, with title treatment and an image prompt.
The prompt
Help me design a book cover.
Title, subtitle, author: [DETAILS]
Genre and audience: [GENRE / READERS]
Story or book in two sentences: [SUMMARY]
Mood: [MOOD]
Format: [ebook thumbnail / paperback with spine and back cover]
Deliver 3 cover concepts. Each with: the central image and why it fits the genre, title and author typography direction, color palette, how it reads as a small thumbnail, and an AI image prompt for the artwork (with space left for the title). Also give back-cover blurb copy for the strongest concept.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- DETAILS
- GENRE / READERS
- SUMMARY
- MOOD
- ebook thumbnail / paperback with spine and back cover
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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