After well over a week of prompts, editing, erasing, deleting, and growling at my computer screen/phone...Eureka! I found it? I did it? Whatever. Haha.

  My reimagined imagined cover. I literally cried and shook after creating it. I couldn't believe my semi-idea was appearing on the page...And I was doing it. Took a lot of effort and was very tedious. Learned some new editing tricks and tools though.

  I originally wanted a "Gone With the Wind" feel. You know...He's holding her, she's holding him. But AI imaging doesn't play well with human emotions. And the cover would basically function as a huge spoiler. It took human will power and multiple spliced images for me to get something even close to what I wanted. But I DID IT!

  Hint: He's actually a lot bigger in my head, and in "reality". However, making everything to scale would alter the dimensions/look of the cover. I settled for him like he is.

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  1) I'm thinking of posting Before and Afters. It was a lot of work.

  A) How my cover began many months ago:

  B) Stage 2 Cover:

  C) To what you see today:

  Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author.

  All covers were created using spliced and diced images I generated using various technologies and techniques. I am proud of improvements I have made. Its been a weird journey.

  2) The California faceplants into the planet's surface:

  Link below (also Stable Diffusion + my editing). I love this site because images are private until you decide to share them. Gives me some security, I guess. ??

  3) Truth and Vulnerability/At the crux (Yes. That's a toilet. From the story.) ??

  4) Nov 8, 2024- Ghkivu monster concept. Mentioned by N-Vorl during a conversation with Dr. Boyd. This is a close rendering of what this creature/hunt beast would look like.

  A writer over on writingforum dot com introduced me to stable diffusion.

  Openart dot ai. That's where the multiple images I used were generated. Thanks.

  Warning: The image you about to view has been edited for your...Uh...Sanity:

  Blooper Pix #1

  Sometimes AI just doesn't have a clue. Discretion is a virtue. BUT hey, we can all use a good laugh. ??????

  N-Vorl's theme song. I created it using Beat Machine by Uminate.

  https://whyp.it/tracks/230600/mad-at-the-universe

  can't know what's in it). I don't judge authors giving free content and using AI covers. I don't even say what my pet-peeves or most disliked tropes are. Someone will feel called out. And no one likes to be called out.