What you get

  • Three genre-aware cover directions to choose from
  • An ebook cover at 1600 x 2560 px with exact, fitted type
  • A paperback wrap PDF with spine width from the page count, blurb and barcode box
  • A spine and wrap calculator with a to-scale template SVG
  • A guide preview, a 3D mockup and a report of every check

Good for

  • Indie authors publishing an ebook or print-on-demand paperback
  • Series covers that share a look
  • Refreshing an old cover or testing concepts with readers

Not for

  • Hardcover dust jackets with flaps or box sets
  • Covers that copy a bestseller or a specific artist
  • Covers with real people who have not agreed

How to use it

In Claude or ChatGPT

Use the PopNow skill "Book Cover Designer" (book-cover-designer) for this: Cover for my mystery The Salt Road by Mara Quill, 6x9 paperback, 320 pages on cream paper, plus the ebook. Lighthouse, fog, a ledger of missing names.

In a coding agent

/popnow-book-cover-designer Cover for my mystery The Salt Road by Mara Quill, 6x9 paperback, 320 pages on cream paper, plus the ebook. Lighthouse, fog, a ledger of missing names.

Then try

Go with direction two but make the light warmer and the sea calmer.

The page count is now 344; rebuild the wrap.

What to have ready

  • Title, subtitle, author name, genre and a one-line hook
  • Trim size, final page count and paper type for print
  • The back cover blurb
  • Python 3 and Chrome, Chromium or Edge

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Questions

Will the title be spelled correctly?

Yes. By default the art is generated without any text and the title, subtitle and author are set as real type from your brief, with a check that every line fits. A painted-lettering option exists, and then every letter is checked by eye.

How is the spine width worked out?

From your page count times a paper factor (white or cream defaults, or the exact number from your printer's calculator). The wrap PDF is built to that size with 0.125 in bleed, and spine lettering is only added when the spine is wide enough.

What does a cover cost?

Roughly three draft images, one final image and an upscale; a print wrap adds one canvas expansion and one more upscale. You see the exact price from the quote before anything runs, and the typesetting, PDF and mockup are free on your computer.

Can it make my cover look like a famous book?

No. It follows the visual conventions of your genre so readers recognise it, but it will not copy a published cover, a living artist's style or another author's branding.

Do I still need a KDP cover calculator?

No. Give the trim size, paper type and page count, and the agent works out the spine and wrap the way a KDP cover calculator does, then exports the print PDF. The ebook side works as a Kindle cover creator at 1600x2560.