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AUGUST 7, 2009
Make your own YA book cover!

You know how some covers just jump out at you? Covers that will make you pick up a book you've never even heard of? Well now's your chance to try making your own debut book cover! And not just any book cover...a YA book cover. Think cropping, weird objects, interesting titles, think of the way Twilight and Gossip Girl series look....and you're on your way to making a YA cover! 

I didn't come up with this idea or these instructions on my own. I was reading a blog about YA and children's book covers called 'Jacket Whys' (http://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/), that had a link to another blog, 100 Scope Notes, (http://100scopenotes.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/create-your-debut-ya-cover/) which is where this idea came from.

So, here are the rules...copied from Scope Notes:

1 – Go to “Fake Name Generator” http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

The name that appears is your author name.

2 – Go to “Random Word Generator”  http://www.websitestyle.com/parser/randomword.shtml

The word listed under “Random Verb” is your title.

3 – Go to “FlickrCC”  http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/index.php

Type your title into the search box. The first photo that contains a person is your cover.

4 – Use Photoshop, Picnik, or similar, to put it all together. Be sure to crop and/or zoom in.

Here is mine:

 

I obviously didn't follow the 'person' part of Rule #3...but I couldn't resist the cow in the spacesuit.

If you do make one and would like me to post it here, email me at mquigley@columbiactlibrary.org with your cover as an attachment. Let's see what you come up with!!

 

From CarolK:

 


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L. Williams said, on Aug. 12 at 4:10AM
Wow - great covers. I'd check out either of these books!

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