Two designed guides from AI Authors Underground. One takes a cover from a reader promise to a finished concept. The other settles which file belongs with which destination. Both are free once you have an account, and they stay in your library.
Page 1, coverPage 3, a worked direction
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Five directions for your next book cover
AI Authors Underground / Story Guild · PDF · 9 pages · 4.9 MB · version 1
A nine page designed workbook that takes a cover from a reader promise to a finished concept. It opens with a short brief you fill in, then walks five genuinely different directions: a painted journey, a conceptual symbol, a relationship, photographic suspense and tactile collage. Each direction carries an adaptable prompt with bracketed choices, notes on what usually goes wrong, and a review pass at thumbnail size before full size. Published by AI Authors Underground under the Story Guild banner.
Your brief: reader, genre, feeling, one carrying image
Five worked cover directions with adaptable prompts
Yours to use for your own books. Please do not redistribute or resell the PDF.
Page 1, coverPage 2, choosing the right file
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KDP cover export field guide
AI Authors Underground / Story Guild · PDF · 5 pages · 287 KB · version 1
A five page designed field guide to which file belongs where. One design, different destinations: a high quality RGB JPEG front for Kindle, a single flat PDF carrying back, spine and front for paperback, a separate layout for hardcover because of the hinge and case wrap, and the editable originals worth keeping for later revisions. It is explicit that a screenshot or an angled book mockup is a presentation image, not an upload file. Published by AI Authors Underground under the Story Guild banner.
Ebook, paperback, hardcover and archive files side by side
Why a paperback PDF cannot be relabelled as hardcover
Spine, bleed and safe area language in plain terms
