I hired an illustrator to design a custom cover for me, but the project went off the rails, as the artist was using AI in ways I disliked, so I ended up just doing my own mediocre cover in two hours.[1]
[0] https://unsplash.com/photos/shallow-focus-photo-gray-balance...
[1] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2025/01/#my-poor-experienc...