Book launches

Book launch banner

Announce a new book with the cover, the blurb, and how to start reading.

File types: PNGJPEGWebP
Size: 1200 × 630 px
Use case: Book launches
Licence: Free to copy and use in your own templates
Source: Made by thirds.ai with the open-licence DM Serif Display font, original graphic marks, and fictional sample names.

A wide book launch banner on cream, a navy book cover with a mustard spine and gold circle titled The Salt House, beside the navy headline A new novel for the end of summer and a navy Read the first chapter button. — book-launch/template.html

About this design

What you can make with it.

Publishers send this out when a new title is about to launch. It builds a simple cover with the title and author, adds a short blurb, and states the launch date and formats. Replace the title, author, and release date for every new launch.

Your details

What you can change.

These are the words and numbers you swap for your own. The design stays the same.

PublisherA short text.
EyebrowA short text.
Book titleA short text.
AuthorA short text.
HeadlineA short text.
BlurbA longer text with more than one line.
Launch dateA short text.
Format lineA short text.
ActionA short text.
FooterA short text.

{
  "publisher": "Cormorant Press",
  "eyebrow": "New novel · October 2026",
  "book_title": "The Salt House",
  "author": "Elena Marsh",
  "headline": "A new novel for the end of summer",
  "blurb": "A quiet seaside town, a locked-up house, and the summer that brings its secrets back to the surface.",
  "launch_date": "Available 24 October",
  "format_line": "Hardback · ebook · audiobook",
  "action": "Read the first chapter",
  "footer": "Shortlisted for the Harbour Fiction Prize 2026."
}

For developers

Make this file from your code or your AI tools.

Save your copy once, then send the new details with each request. Each finished file costs 1 credit.

curl https://thirds.ai/v1/image \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $THIRDS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: book-launch-1" \
  -d '{"template_id":"tpl_your_copy","version":1,"data":{"publisher":"Cormorant Press","eyebrow":"New novel · October 2026","book_title":"The Salt House","author":"Elena Marsh","headline":"A new novel for the end of summer","blurb":"A quiet seaside town, a locked-up house, and the summer that brings its secrets back to the surface.","launch_date":"Available 24 October","format_line":"Hardback · ebook · audiobook","action":"Read the first chapter","footer":"Shortlisted for the Harbour Fiction Prize 2026."},"image":{"format":"png","width":1200,"height":630}}'

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "render",
    "arguments": {
      "output": "png",
      "idempotency_key": "book-launch-1",
      "request": {
        "template_id": "tpl_your_copy",
        "version": 1,
        "data": {
          "publisher": "Cormorant Press",
          "eyebrow": "New novel · October 2026",
          "book_title": "The Salt House",
          "author": "Elena Marsh",
          "headline": "A new novel for the end of summer",
          "blurb": "A quiet seaside town, a locked-up house, and the summer that brings its secrets back to the surface.",
          "launch_date": "Available 24 October",
          "format_line": "Hardback · ebook · audiobook",
          "action": "Read the first chapter",
          "footer": "Shortlisted for the Harbour Fiction Prize 2026."
        },
        "image": {
          "width": 1200,
          "height": 630
        }
      }
    }
  }
}