April 12, 2022
Not all books get printed. Some vanish before they're even written—rumours in the dust, titles scribbled on napkins, fragments of dreams never keyed. Welcome to the Bookstore Graveyard, where abandoned covers rest on ghostly shelves and books you've never read gaze back at you like memories from a different timeline.
What if you could stroll through this unseen archive? What if you could see these books—their colours, typography, the unsettling imagery that speaks of worlds within them? With Dreamina, you can bring back the literary specters of tales that never existed. Be it "The Cat Who Broke into Time", "How to Raise a Library in Your Lung", or "101 Recipes for Moonlight Cooking", your imagination gets a publishing contract. And Dreamina's AI image generator turns you into the cover artist.
It is one thing to design your alternate reality bookstore; quite another to have a sticker pack replete with poetic nonsense and time-traveling cats. In either event, this one's potential new favorite rabbit hole!
We don't just imagine people from the past but their books too. What the covers would look like? Whether those books had bookmarks or not? If the shelves were organised chronologically or not? Reimagine what they would look like even if those books never existed. Here's how Dreamina allows you to do that in seconds:
To start, head into Dreamina and click on “Image generator.” Now it’s time to give your lost book a visual identity. Create a detailed prompt that describes the cover as if it actually exists. Consider colour palette, font style, illustration, and genre cues.
For instance: "Create a book cover of 'The Cat Who Infiltrated Time,' in a surreal art style, glowing tabby cat walking on melted clock gears, deep indigo background with golden serif title font, paperback texture, dreamlike composition." The more specific you describe, the spookier and more real your dreamed-up book will become. Handle it like releasing a visual legend.
As soon as you are done with writing your prompt, turn your attention to image generation settings to get the right vibe. Choose a model to match your style-realistic for the faux bestsellers and stylised for that niche zine energy. Make sure you set the aspect ratio to portrait, as we’re designing covers. Then go for a size that weighs detail against speed. Hit "Generate" and watch your fantasy book come to life, almost as though it's been sitting there on some long-forgotten alternate shelf.
Your missing cover is created—but now you can make it your own. Dreamina's customisation functions take it to the next level. Use inpaint to add an author name, publisher logo, or even a cryptic sticker like "Banned in Twelve Dimensions." Want to show your book on a ethereal shelf? Use expand to expand the canvas and put it alongside other imaginary books. If a part of the image doesn't belong—perhaps a font bug or errant object—just remove it cleanly. And for mood adjustments, lighting corrections, or colour boosts, the retouch tool is your best buddy. Once your work is complete, click the "Download" button and save your cover to your own bookshelf of the unreal.
There's something enchanting about picturing a book nobody else has read—not because it's scarce, but because it never existed. These covers hold the promise of tales that might've been, should've been, or perhaps still are… somewhere. Dreamina doesn't only provide you with an image generator—it provides you with a haunted printing press for the imagination.
Now that you have a stable library of your visualised titles, you can curate them into bookshop galleries, social media posts, or even concept boards for short stories or scripts. Print them out and bind them into zines, or display them on your floor like an occult catalogue. They're not only cute—they're prompts, characters, atmospheres, timelines.
Even better, you can brand your whole literary graveyard as if it's an actual publisher. Whether you're designing an underground press named Phantom Spine or a library of interdimensional self-help books, Dreamina's AI logo generator assists you in bringing the entire vision to life. Picture a logo composed of hovering quills, broken book spines, or an open book with smoke billowing out. It doesn't matter that your press doesn't exist—by the time you're finished designing, it'll feel like it always has.
Book jackets deserve better than stale pixels. They aspire to be collectible, portable, sticky. Dreamina's sticker maker takes your design jackets and converts them into sticker-quality, high-resolution stickers that feel like they've been ripped from the windows of a ghost bookstore. Every sticker-sized cover is now a bite-sized enigma—a small promise of a story that's just out of reach.
Here's how you can design entire sticker sheets of speculative literature:
Print your stickers, trade them, write with them, or simply blanket your bookcase with quiet whispers from the books that never happened. It's less for grieving stories that never happened and more for joy in what unfolds when creativity doesn't have a timeline.
You don't require a design degree or publishing credential to create your own Bookstore Graveyard. You only need an odd concept and a sense of commitment to see it all the way through to the (hypothetical) front cover. Dreamina provides you with all you'll need to transform from quirky title to three-dimensional vision—solutions that approach more like archaeological excavation than graphic design.
You see, get on with it: dig through the dusty shelves of your mind. Remember to give those lost relics a spine, a shimmer, and a sticker sheet. Those stories will likely never come to see words on a page. However, their covers will not fail to continue living on-never being forgotten around your own folders, hanging on your walls, and quietly whispering "Open me anyway."
