Book Cover Design Pack

Literary fiction, cosy crime, high fantasy, romance, sci-fi, gothic horror, memoir, and thriller — genre-coded cover prompts with blank title areas across all four models.

A book cover has to communicate genre, mood, and hook in a single glance at thumbnail size, and it has to do it while leaving room for the title — the one thing every model wants to fill with garbled text. The prompts in this pack cover eight distinct genres (literary fiction, cosy crime, high fantasy, contemporary romance, science fiction, gothic horror, memoir, and psychological thriller) across all four supported models. Every entry names the genre explicitly, reserves a blank area for the title with "no text, no letters," and uses a 2:3 aspect ratio for standard paperback proportions. Genre signals are carried by palette and composition rather than subject detail: the cosy crime cover uses warm muted gouache and a clue object, the thriller uses a single street lamp and cold steel blue, the high fantasy uses epic scale with a lone figure at the base of a dragon-dominated composition. Generate the art, then typeset the real title and author name in Canva or Illustrator. For the full technique walkthrough behind each prompt, see the guide 12 AI Book Cover Prompts for Novels, Memoirs and Genre Fiction on the blog.

10 prompts · every one tested and published with its exact settings