Prompt
A rowboat oar resting on a dock at first light, ripples still settling. 2026 trade-cover trend: oversized structural typography, high-contrast palette, strong readability at thumbnail size. All cover text must be English only. Book cover with title "North of the River" and author name "Thomas Reyes" rendered on the cover.. Workflow direction: Create the finished flat front-cover artwork itself, not a photograph or mockup of a physical book. The rectangular front cover must fill the entire output canvas edge to edge, viewed perfectly straight-on with the camera perpendicular to the artwork. Build one compelling genre-appropriate key image on a single strong subject in a single scene — never a collage of competing motifs. Follow the 2026 trade-cover direction: oversized structural title typography treated as part of the artwork, a high-contrast palette, an author name placed deliberately and secondary to the title, short correctly rendered title text in the requested language enclosed in quotation marks, and a silhouette that stays readable at 100-pixel thumbnail size in a two-second scroll, all with trim-safe breathing room.
Style-specific direction:
Style: premium literary memoir cover with intimate editorial photography or restrained painterly realism, quiet paper-grain texture in the 2026 literary manner, and a quiet human tone.
Subject: preserve the requested personal object, place, period, and memory cue; use one authentic focal artifact rather than a sentimental collage.
Composition: portrait front-cover layout, calm asymmetry, tactile negative space, subtle depth, clear title and author zones, thumbnail readability.
Lighting or Color: soft window light with gentle falloff; sepia, linen, muted teal, and natural paper grain.
Typography: render the exact quoted title once in a warm humanist serif scaled generously and the exact quoted author once beneath it in small elegant capitals; keep both crisp and correctly spelled.
Output format: author appears exactly once; flat front-cover artwork only, filling the canvas edge to edge and viewed perfectly straight-on; no physical book object, spine, pages, back cover, perspective, photo mockup, badge, logo, watermark, duplicated text, or fake review quotes.. Avoid: physical book, 3D book, book mockup, product mockup, spine, pages, page edges, back cover, perspective view, angled cover, tabletop, pedestal, hands holding a book, room scene, drop shadow around the cover, misspelled title, crowded typography, weak focal point, busy collage of competing motifs, washed-out low contrast, text too close to edges, unrelated imagery, garbled author name, misspelled title, duplicated author, fake review quote, sentimental collage, landscape layout, 3D mockup, spine, watermark
