Gallery: Debut YA Covers

Huzzah to the brave souls who boldly assembled their debut YA book covers (click here to give it a try). Below is a gallery of the sometimes outstanding, sometimes outstandingly unfortunate results.

Break @ Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater (author of the recently released Shiver)

Strum @ Pop Candy.

Signal @ princessdeia.

Bluster @ Divinest Sense.

Click @ It Came From Outer Space.

Overdressing @ Bellas Novella.

Believe @ Reading at the Beach.

Time and Promise @ The Queen Bees Book Club.

Find @ Willing to See Less.

Bow @ Cosy Catastrophe.

Name @ willmetz.

Untwisted @ Penryn’s Dreams.

Air and Afraid @ Throwing Away Breadcrumbs.

Jog @ Bookatopia.

End @ Paperback Pirate.

Gauge @ Libbie on the Label.

Focus @ Booth & Dimock Teen Spot.

Barrage @ Nothing Rhymes with Rachel.

Stump @ A Fuse #8 Production. Eco-themed YA coming up.

Unwrap @ Libri Dilectio.

Badmouth @ Bleatbox.

Rub @ Today’s Adventure.

Peep @ Sunshine Edition.

Lure and Loiter @ Hey! Teenager of the Year.

Enlighten, Vomit, Stand, and Spot @ In the Booley House.

Enlighten and Haul @ Morike of the Chair.

Reward @ transientme.

Betray @ Teacherninja.

Vault @ The YA YA YAs.

Beat @ Half Asleep in Paisley Pajamas.

Elevate @ Lady Lazarus.

Sigh, Humour, and Reach @ Gignacery.

Return @ Calliope and Thalia’s Modern Day Musings.

Shelter and Wrangle @ Alien Onion.

Bathe @ Moored at Sea.

Drape @ The Zen Leaf.

Crumple @ BookEnds.

Sober @ The Infinite Shelf.

Slump @ The Summer.

Embrace (two versions) @ Oops…Wrong Cookie. Man, I couldn’t just see these possibly being on shelves – they should be.

Vote @ bookbrig.

Thrash @ Blog Was Star.

Slide @ Mt. Lebanon Public Library.

Slumber @ Mt. Lebanon Public Library.

Dissemble @ Romantoes.

Conspire @ C.K. Kelly Martin.

Mollycoddle @ Layers of Thought.

Jumble @ Nan’s Corner of the World.

Pitch @ The Vintage Reader.

Adore @ Life on the Bookshelf.

Cartwheel @ Life on the Bookshelf.

Express @ Linz.

Surprise @ this cat! it is not a cheesecake!

Conclude @ Mrs. McGrew’s Blog.

Manipulate @ Bookworm Buddies.

Flip @ I Read, I Write, I Shelve Things.

Stray and Frozen @ I Read, I Write, I Shelve Things.

Liar @ LibrariYAn. Alicia took the recently controversial-for-it’s-cover YA novel Liar and put it through the Create Your Debut YA Cover steps. A vastly different result.

Sip @ LibrariYAn.

Keep @ Stray Kitten. This one’s pretty smooth. The first of a few of these that I could see actually working in the real world.

Yank @ Diana Peterfreund. Another one that I could envision on shelves. Where is the third hand coming from? Someone write a story for this ASAP.

Reminisce @ Diana Peterfreund. This character is sad. An kind of mad about it.

Huff @ Underage Reading. I think I saw this one on shelves back in the 80s.

Pluck @ Tanita S. Davis blog. Aww, yeah. I was just thinking the other day that eyebrow plucking has not been the basis for enough books. This one fills a much needed gap.

Tense @ YABOOKNERD. A YA book about rock wall climbing ? Belay on!

Centre @ Wish I Were Baking. “Look, look – I know the cover isn’t jumping out at you, but you just have to read it, man. So good.”

Kick! @ Book Nut. I think I know about 53 cheerleaders in the making who would grab this as soon as it hit the shelves.

Crow @ Anna Jarzab. Wow – ghost child makes for YA gold.

Claim @ NBPL Teen Book Blog. Final line: “Just go out there and claim your life, dude.”

Guzzle @ Shalan. Ha –

Scorn @ ALD Youth Services Interest Group. I dare you to pick this one up.

Whisk @ Abby (the) Librarian. This could go the happy/funny route or veer toward the quirky/dark end of the spectrum.

Wonder @ Emily’s Reading Room. I would venture to say that this one might work in real life.

Sabotage! @ One Librarian’s Book Reviews. Bringin’ the gunplay that youngsters can’t get enough of.

Elude @ Holly’s Red Bike. A good ol’ fashioned chase story.

Stuff @ The Reading Zone. Pushing the envelope.

Still @ CMIS.

Cleave @ Finding Wonderland.

Plunge @ Maples and Fiddleheads.

Bend @ Spinning Jennie.

Showcase @ The Further Adventures of Seagull Boy.

Arch @ Under the Covers.

Pluck @ The Magic of Ink.

Yawn. This one’s mine.

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