TL;DR Key Takeaways : AI technology is transforming book cover design, offering a cost-effective solution for authors, especially those with tight budgets or multiple projects.

These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing. A cover designer’s role is to interpret a book visually, reflecting what the author and publisher have achieved in the text.

A book is weighed against its confreres in the same genre and a designer begins conceptualising anywhere up to 15 different directions. This is how a bestselling cover ends up with hordes of copycats.