Cover Design

Your Book's Cover

Every book gets a custom cover featuring your cast, generated alongside the rest of the book and matched to the story's art style.

Two Kinds of Cover Title

This is the thing worth understanding first, because it decides what you can change. Open the cover's AI illustration panel and look at Title style:

New covers use Stylized in image by default. It looks the most designed, because the lettering is drawn to match the art.

"I changed the story title but the cover still says the old one"

That is the expected behavior of a stylized title, not a bug. The words on that cover are pixels in the illustration — renaming the story, or editing the prompt, cannot rewrite them. The cover has to be redrawn, or the title has to become real text.

What Each Style Lets You Control

An overlay title is ordinary text, so the wording, the line breaks and the size are all yours, exactly and repeatably.

A painted title is drawn fresh each time the cover is generated, from an instruction you can read and change (see below). You can ask it for particular line breaks and a smaller size, and it will usually oblige — but it is direction, not a setting, so each redraw is a new interpretation.

Switching to an Editable Text Overlay

If you want the wording, the line breaks and the size to be exactly what you set — and to stay that way — use an editable text overlay. If you would rather keep the painted lettering, skip to the next section; that is reachable too.

1. Open the cover's AI illustration panel
2. Set Title style to Editable text overlay
3. Redraw the front cover — see below, this step matters
4. Click the title on the cover and type it

Press Enter wherever you want a line break, so a long title can sit on three lines instead of two:

The Stargazer
and the
Keeper of Warmth

Size comes from the text type menu in the editing toolbar — Title, Heading, or Body. Drop from Title to Heading if a long title is crowding the edges.

Why the redraw in step 3 matters

Switching the style does not repaint the cover you already have. Skipping the redraw leaves the old painted lettering in the artwork with your new text sitting on top of it — two titles.

The redraw does two things: it brings the artwork back without lettering, and it tells the illustrator to leave a clean, uncluttered area near the top for text to sit on. That is why an overlay title on a redrawn cover looks composed rather than pasted on.

Keeping the Painted Look and Choosing the Line Breaks

You do not have to give up the painted lettering to get your title onto three lines. The instruction that draws it is part of the cover's prompt, and you can rewrite it.

Open the cover's Prompt panel and find the sentence that looks like this:

Render the title "The Stargazer and the Keeper of Warmth" in large stylized text at the top of the image.

Replace it with the layout you want:

Render the title in large stylized text at the top of the image, broken across
exactly three centered lines:
"The Stargazer"
"and the"
"Keeper of Warmth"
Keep the lettering comfortably inside the margins.

Then redraw the front cover. The lettering is drawn fresh in the cover's own style, following your layout.

This works where fixing lettering after the fact does not, because the illustrator is composing new text rather than rewriting existing text.

It is still direction rather than a guarantee. The line breaks and the margins come out right reliably; spelling occasionally does not — a long or unusual title can come back with a letter transposed. Read the title on the new cover before moving on, and redraw again if it is off. Your first redraw of the cover is free, and previous versions are always there to revert to. Each redraw also reinterprets the whole cover, not only the title.

Two things to avoid afterwards:

• Don't press "Generate prompt" — it rewrites the prompt from your story and discards your version
• Don't toggle Title style — switching between stylized and overlay rebuilds the prompt, which also discards it

Changing the Title but Keeping This Exact Cover

Everything above redraws the artwork. If you like the cover you have and only the title is wrong, there is a way to change just the lettering:

1. Open the cover in the image editor
2. Drag a box around the title
3. Type the wording you want, the same way as in the prompt — one quoted line per line of text
4. Choose Replace just the title, keep this artwork

The lettering is cleared, the artwork behind it is painted back in, and the title is re-lettered in your cover's own style. The illustration itself does not change. It costs one credit, the same as any other edit, and takes around fifteen seconds.

This is the only route that keeps the artwork exactly. The trade is that it works from the lettering already on your cover, so the new title comes out in the same style rather than a fresh interpretation.

Why the box matters

The box does two jobs: it marks the area to clear, and it is where the style of your existing lettering is sampled from. Draw it around the whole title, not just one line.

Editing text any other way

A plain edit cannot rewrite lettering — ask for new wording without using the button above and the cover comes back looking untouched. The editor warns you before you spend anything if it sees you trying.

Erasing text in the image editor is fine — removal works normally. It is only rewriting that needs the button.

When the Title Runs Past the Margins

A painted title is drawn as art, so nothing enforces the print margins for it. Two ways to pull it back in:

• Switch to an editable text overlay — you set the line breaks and the size directly, so it is exact and stays put
• Stay painted and direct the prompt — ask for three lines and lettering comfortably inside the margins, as above, then redraw until it sits well

Breaking a long title across three lines takes far less width than two, whichever route you take.

Check the cover before ordering — anything close to the trim edge is worth pulling in.

Cover Design Tips

• Keep titles short — they need to be readable at thumbnail size as well as full size
• Include a character's name — it makes the book feel personal
• Redraw a few times — the cover is the first impression, so pick one you like

For Printed Books

When ordering a hardcover, the cover is printed with:

• Glossy laminate finish for durability
• Full-bleed printing — illustrations go edge to edge
• Spine text — the title appears on the spine for bookshelf display