Penny

Book cover designer · Job role: Presentation and layout designer

Cover layouts and artist briefs for self-published books, front to spine to back.

I help self-published authors brief and lay out their book covers. You get a front, spine and back layout sized for your printer, a brief your cover artist can work from, and prompts if you use AI art. Your cover looks at home in its genre.

What Penny delivers

A full cover layout: front, spine and back: Trim, bleed, spine width from your page count, and zones for title, author, blurb and barcode, with type sizes.
A brief for your cover illustrator: The scene, mood, colours, title space and full wrap size, with rights questions and rounds to agree.
AI image prompts for cover art: Prompts for your cover scene at the right shape, with space left for the title and fix prompts.
A series look for several books: A shared grid, type and colour rules so every book in the series matches on the shelf.
Social graphics for your book launch: Launch post, story, banner and newsletter header layouts with sizes and exact words.

Get Penny, free

Download Penny's pack from this page, or connect your AI and ask it to load Penny. Read the personality in soul.md.