bots and book covers

 

Yesterday morning I was waiting for the plumbers to come fix my kitchen sink and working through some cover designs for the press and started thinking about my own next book, RUINPORN, which likely is not due til early 2025 since it needs a firm editing hand, proofing, and interior design that isn't yet a priority. But I am loving this impromptu mock-up using some of the images I have been futzing around with with the bots. I initially planned to use one of the home improvement collages, but this spooky little bit won my heart over and feels madly appropriate for a book about deaths and endings ( as a human, as a daughter, as a poet, as a lover, as a society coming out of lockdowns amid a strange, strange world.)

Sometimes mining the bots for usable images and entering complex prompts is like fishing and hoping you will actually get something good (tilt shift photos are particularly prone to oddities when you start mixing people in. ) I usually find only bits and pieces, but this bit of loveliness came out of set of prompts that wasn't looking for this much weirdness (though the bots occasionally surprise me.) Somehow it's just right.