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.

This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

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. 🙂

https://i.ibb.co/HrDnbSN/faceplant-Scien...fornia.jpg [https://i.ibb.co/HrDnbSN/faceplant-Science-Ship-USS-California.jpg]

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

https://i.ibb.co/VHx2XsB/truth-and-vulnerability-2.jpg [https://i.ibb.co/VHx2XsB/truth-and-vulnerability-2.jpg]

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.

https://i.ibb.co/L6BVJ7M/Hunt-Beast-Ghkivu-Concept.jpg [https://i.ibb.co/L6BVJ7M/Hunt-Beast-Ghkivu-Concept.jpg]

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.