Sample Covers - The Last MariGold

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made a comment in her skool group to me about not knowing how to get covers designed, so I thought I'd do a quick teaser. The two samples here came from the /Book-Merch Team in the PWS. These are what I call "cold" because there was no discussion, I just asked for two sample covers and copied the entire sample prompt from one of the Thursday Throwaways post this week with no constraints. I love how it will "fill in the blanks" if you do not give it enough information. I have asked the team for full dust jackets before and gotten fake reviews, an authors picture, name and bio on the back of the book. I do think Eleanor Hemlock would be a great pen name for a cosy mystery author though.

The full text of what the /Book-Merch-Team replied is below. You do not have to read through it all but it is interesting. These samples were made with nano-banana in manus' canvas. I have been told Google Gemini works the same way and need to test this on the free tier to see if its the same. You can ask for styles, give sample images you like. It works best with discussion and will use the color pallette and ideas for an entire line of merch products you can order or DIY yourself. To edit you can use your favorite photo editor or just "talk" to the image. If I select the second cover image and say "change the author name to Michael Culp in the same font and color" it will do just that.

I also need to re-iterate (constantly) a human artist is golden. Even if you choose to pay a human which i do highly encourage as they need to eat to. The Covers created here can be used as is or you can use them to show an artist what you want and let them know what changes you need. It's a good start.

Again the formatting issue so I've attached a PDf file of the output below. Let me know if you have any issues access it

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10emeUWdAsX4_hoogYEFFcWajYBHKnu-y/view?usp=sharing

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