*Update* Click here to view the Create Your Debut YA Cover gallery.
Usually I don’t do YA, but…
A few months back I posted the steps to Create Your Debut Fantasy Novel Cover. Now it’s time to do something for the Teens. Above is my debut YA cover. I had to modify the rules for this sort of cover to ensure the appropriate YA clichés were represented:
What will yours look like?
CREATE YOUR DEBUT YA COVER
1 – Go to “Fake Name Generator” or click http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
The name that appears is your author name.
2 – Go to “Random Word Generator” or click http://www.websitestyle.com/parser/randomword.shtml
The word listed under “Random Verb” is your title.
3 – Go to “FlickrCC” or click 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.
5 – Post it to your site along with this text.
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Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He reviews children's books for School Library Journal and is a member of the American Library Association. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com. He's also on...
Thanks for a fun activity! =) Now I want to write a book. Here’s my cover. http://libridilectio.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-debut-ya-cover.html
I made one!!
You can see it here:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BQQ2F2rxi9E/SnMluLb909I/AAAAAAAAAJ8/QmwX6tsR_v8/s1600-h/YA+book+Focus.jpg
This was fun
My debut YA cover: http://bookatopia.blogspot.com/2009/08/create-your-debut-ya-cover.html
Can I play too?
http://ajbreadcrumbs.blogspot.com/2009/08/debut-book-covers.html
My ‘random VERB’ was ‘afraid’, though.
??
Oh…the ‘person’ rule. Duh. Read the instructions.
O well. It was fun anyway.
Awesome challenge. I had so much fun that I made 4 more!
http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/z294/ill_be_waiting_18/?action=view¤t=weep2.jpg
http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/z294/ill_be_waiting_18/?action=view¤t=mime.jpg
http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/z294/ill_be_waiting_18/?action=view¤t=end1.jpg
http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/z294/ill_be_waiting_18/?action=view¤t=burn-1.jpg
I think, although I forgot to keep the names the same, End and Burn could be part of a series. The feel of the covers kinda makes me feel that one’s a sequel to the other.
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http://exitofhumanity.blogspot.com/2009/08/bit-of-departure.html
Great challenge!
Mine is here http://willingtoseeless.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-debut-ya-novel.html
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This was so much fun!!
http://ilratb.blogspot.com/2009/08/create-your-debut-ya-novel-cover.html
What fun! One more safe addiction . . .
http://zqueenbees.blogspot.com/2009/08/create-your-own-ya-novel-cover.html
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Ha! This is amazing. Aren’t we all a sucker for YA fiction?
Here’s mine… Bluster! (with a rather English pen name too.)
http://divinest-sense.blogspot.com/2009/08/little-fun.html
Fun!
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Excellent site, keep up the good work
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I hope it’s not too late to join the party! I just found this and your fantasy book cover and had a great time with them. I really like how you tailored the instructions for this one to generate a very YA cover.
Mine turned out pretty creepy, so check out Order, the latest in the deluge of dark, dystopian, disaster books being published for young adults!
I had so much fun.
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This is great! I’m going to use this in one of my programs with my teens at my library!!!