Romance Book Cover Design — covers that signal subgenre in a thumbnail.

Not to plan the cover. Typing your title, picking a romance subgenre, writing the brief and choosing a style all happen without an account, and everything you entered is carried through the sign-up and put back as you left it — including on a different device. The account is asked for at the Generate click, because that is the first moment the cover costs us anything. A new account gets 3 AI Generations valid 7 days, no card.

You can change it. Every cover you make lands in a project that keeps all of its versions, so generating a second direction never destroys the first. From there Refine offers three changes: replace the title text, make the title bigger, or describe a visual change in your own words. The first two re-letter a picture you already have and cost 0 AI Generations; only the third makes new artwork, and it costs 1 — charged when a new result actually succeeds, never on a failure, timeout or retry.

Yes — pick it in the Subgenre row before you start. We publish one archetype per romance subgenre: contemporary, dark, romantasy, sports, historical and paranormal. Choosing one anchors generation to the visual system behind that archetype, so the cover lands on the right shelf rather than in a generic "romance" average. Under it you can set three more things independently: the cover direction (object, illustrated couple, painted figure or type-led), the heat, which changes only how close the figures are and how much skin shows, and the mood, which changes only palette, light and contrast. All of it is editable on the next screen, and clearing any of it lets the genre defaults decide.

A new account gets 3 AI Generations valid 7 days, no card. Those produce watermarked 1080px-wide JPG previews — enough to judge a cover, but not licensed to sell a book with. A one-time payment (from $19 for 20 AI Generations, or $39 for 60) unlocks the clean, un-watermarked 1600 × 2560 PNG with full commercial rights. There is no subscription and nothing renews. Replacing the title text, making the title bigger, exporting the front cover and building the paperback wrap all cost 0 AI Generations either way.

Figures yes, a specific character no. The Cover direction control offers an illustrated couple and a painted full-figure hero alongside the object-led default, and both crop or turn the face rather than making it the subject — which is where AI illustration is most reliable. What we will not promise is character consistency: the model has no memory of a face between generations, so two covers for the same series will not share a hero, and anyone who tells you otherwise is describing a feature that does not exist here. An object-led cover avoids the problem entirely.

KDP does not blanket-ban AI-generated covers. Its published guidance asks that you hold the rights to what you upload, that the cover meets their quality bar, and that you disclose AI-generated content during the title-setup flow — the disclosure is a question KDP asks you, and answering it is your step, not ours. A paid download from MakeMyBookCover is the clean, un-watermarked file and carries full commercial rights, so the rights condition is satisfied by default; the free previews are watermarked evaluation copies, so publish from a paid download. We cannot promise a review outcome — we can only tell you what the file contains.