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Book Cover Brief Generator

Answer a few questions and get a brief you can hand to any cover designer, plus a deliverables checklist and your paperback spine and full-cover sizes.

Book title

Subtitle (optional) Author name as printed

Genre Subgenre or trope (e.g. enemies to lovers)

Three words for the mood (e.g. dark, lush, dangerous) Comparable titles (2–3 recent books in your lane whose covers readers of yours would pick up) Must-haves (imagery, symbols, colours, series look) Do-nots (anything you never want on the cover) Formats

Ebook Paperback Hardcover Audiobook

Paperback trim size Page count (paperback interior)

Paper

Spine and full-cover sizes use Amazon KDP's published paperback formulas (0.002252 in per page for white paper, 0.0025 in for cream, 0.002347 in for premium color, plus 0.125 in bleed on each edge). Always confirm with your printer's own template before final files. Ebook size follows KDP's recommended 1,600 × 2,560 px (width × height, 1.6:1); audiobook minimum is ACX's 2,400 × 2,400 px square.

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