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So, I have been tinkering with a book cover for my werewolf novel, The Wolves of Wallace Point. I am actually unlikely to self-publish the book but the thought continues to run through my head.

I have no graphic training and very little talent in that art, but I did have a concept, an idea for something that I might like even if it was out of step with current trends in book cover design.

Decades ago, and I am talking like 80 years, one accepted design school for books was to have the cover very simple, one or two colors as your background, some very simple design elements and the text of the title and the author. No illustrations, no paintings or photographic elements, a cover stripped down to bare minimalism.

So, using Claude, because I have no experience or skill with photoshop or the like, and public-domain clip art, I knocked together this cover. It’s not sized for a paperback or hardback book, but just the front image of an eBook, but you know, I think it kind of works. I don’t consider it to be an A.I. made cover, though I used an A.I. to help me make it. I selected the color, the font, the clip-art paw prints and used Claude to execute my vision much quicker and much more easily than if I had tried to learn enough Photoshop to achieve the same effect.