Yesterday I got an idea in my head for a series. I brainstorm with chat - and we come up with 5 books for the series - all the basics and I took it over into Antigravity today to write. But I like to see the covers of what I'm writing. I asked chat to make them in the same chat I was brainstorming in.

I hope you have or had a wonderful day! After today we roll full steam into 2026 ……. So relax and get ready!!!!

This is fun - interesting to play with and definitely fun. It isn't super simple and straight forward - but I was able to do 14 chapters in a matter of about 30-45 minutes after making sure I had the story bible/codex updated for the series (which it reads from my Google Drive). I took it over to Claude to see how it read vs book 2 and it said it was more cozy "thriller" - but that the Hurricane aspect made that work. I did run out of "Gemini 3 pro" tokens until 12/26 at like 5pm 🙄 and the price is high to continue with that model (attached image) - but it has other aspects I don't currently use and now am curious about (hello Veo). I am able to use Gemini Flash which is expanding the chapters right now as I write this so YAY. This to me is almost scary how fast it worked and I am working on 2 books at the same time (one is in another window and is very spicy - including very dub-con and it's happily going along with it). Antigravity will probably grow on me - but I'll wait to pay $$ - though Claude wasn't much more expensive as I was working there at the $100+ level (some months I went to $200 but I'm now at $20)

So try different places to see which picture and feel works best for you. Same prompt - 3 different generators. 1 - Gemini Nano Banana Pro (on my phone) … 2 - Firefly Nano Banana (again on the phone) … 3 - Ideogram (on the phone) Yes I am a little concerned about my husbands thoughts while we are in the middle of a discussion and I get told to SHUSH and this is the result 😉 No - I’m not sharing the premise for this one Create a sinister book cover in cinematic style—a chilling image of a small deserted town with a quaint, creepy house in the distance, and a porcelain doll staring ominously at the viewer. Apply rich, unnerving dark tones to convey a sense of dread. The bold modern serif letterings should smolder in blood-red: “Her Little Hands". Subtitle text: "Beer-Thirty by Joe: Codex & Outline". Format it in a square, with no characters featured. Let the atmosphere tell the tale.

I love reading and have the desire to write and publish my own books. I was curious where people in this group fall where using AI to co write their books fall. Around what percentage of your writing is done by ai?