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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July 29, 2009 at 10:28 am
Elizabeth
Some of those are actually amazingly beautiful. And I’m stunned by how “Still” looks like a lot of books on my shelf. Just crop off three-quarter’s of the girl’s face and we’d have a real YA cover!
Thanks for organizing this; it was great fun.
July 29, 2009 at 10:36 am
Scope Notes
Yeah, some of these turned out well. And the ones that didn’t came out wonderfully bad. A good balance.
July 29, 2009 at 10:45 am
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July 29, 2009 at 12:10 pm
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July 29, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Rachel
What fun! Here’s mine.
July 29, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Stephanie F
Mine turned out surprisingly good. :D
July 29, 2009 at 5:12 pm
aquafortis
Excellent!! Some of these are extremely plausible, which is frightening. I like Stump and Bend an awful lot.
July 29, 2009 at 8:13 pm
patti
Here’s mine! Fun stuff!
http://oopswrongcookie.blogspot.com/2009/07/create-your-ya-cover.html
July 29, 2009 at 8:39 pm
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July 29, 2009 at 9:04 pm
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July 29, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Summer
here’s mine!
http://thesummer.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/create-a-ya-cover/
July 29, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Summer
hahaha understandable. I felt a little uncomfortable with it as well. I added another one. same link as above.
July 29, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Scope Notes
Added!
July 30, 2009 at 8:49 am
Amanda
Hey! Thanks for adding mine. I’m going to link to this post on my blog.
If you’re looking for more, my three boys put theirs up, too: http://gignacery.blogspot.com/2009/07/book-covers-from-boys.html
July 30, 2009 at 11:27 am
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July 30, 2009 at 7:35 pm
thebooleyhouse
Mine! All four of them!
http://thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/create-your-own-debut-ya-book-cover/
July 30, 2009 at 7:51 pm
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July 31, 2009 at 2:31 am
Rachel
Here’s mine!
http://www.mechanicalcat.net/rachel/log/Silly%20Fun/Faux_b_b_b_book
July 31, 2009 at 11:22 am
Rachel Morgan
Check out mine !
http://sunshineedition.blogspot.com/2009/07/create-ya-cover.html
Thanks :)
July 31, 2009 at 11:33 pm
phantommidge
This is fantastic! I’d love to see these on the shelf in our Teen section. (Although, I’d like to add a small caption to the one with the chihuahua coming from the dog that says, “Madam, I protest!”)
August 1, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Nicole
I can’t believe how good most of them turned out! Here’s mine:
http://paperbackpirate.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-wrote-my-first-book.html
August 1, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Jessica
I have a YA as well as an SF&F up on my livejournal.
Love these! :D
http://penrynsdreams.livejournal.com/125163.html
August 2, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Holly
This was a lot of fun!!
http://www.bellasnovella.com/2009/08/create-your-debut-ya-cover.html
August 2, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Bleatbox
That was a lot of fun, here’s mine: http://img222.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=badmouthcover.jpg
Some of those covers are really great, better than many published jackets!
August 2, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Bleatbox
Sorry, wasn’t quite the right link!
Here: http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9806/badmouthcover.jpg
August 2, 2009 at 10:52 pm
MotherReader
So glad you did a round-up of the covers. I hadn’t seen many of them – and there were some great ones. I’d totally read Crumple, Gauge, and Wonder. And Stand and Spot must be on shelves already – they look so real.
August 2, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Scope Notes
I agree – some of these turned out eerily plausible. Crumple and Embrace seem especially “torn from the shelf” to me.
August 3, 2009 at 10:30 am
Size
Wow, some of these are just incredibly well done! Mine isn’t so good, but here it is anyway: http://willmetz.com/images/ya-cover.jpg
August 3, 2009 at 3:31 pm
NotNessie
Some of these are really great. Mine definitely doesn’t look like something I’d pick up at the bookstore: http://ultimatebookhound.blogspot.com/2009/08/create-your-debut-ya-novel-cover.html
August 7, 2009 at 11:25 am
Literature Crazy
Those are so fantastic.
Here’s mine: Unbuckle by Anita Cheek.
August 7, 2009 at 1:32 pm
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August 13, 2009 at 12:24 am
Katherine Battersby
Love this! DIY covers. My YA debut is titled ‘Balance’ – your typical, tense ‘coming of age’ type YA. You can have a laugh at it over on my blog: http://wellreadrabbit.wordpress.com
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August 20, 2009 at 7:08 am
Scott King
I couldn’t help but jump on the Fake YA Book Cover bandwagon:
http://www.scottking.info/blog/2009/08/20/fake-ya-book-cover/
August 20, 2009 at 10:10 am
princessdeia
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August 31, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Maggie Stiefvater
Okay, it was totally ridiculous for me to do this, as I already have not only a debut novel out but another novel on the NYT list and another one coming out in October, but it was too fun not to do it. Here it is: http://m-stiefvater.livejournal.com/124990.html.
September 3, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Scope Notes
I’m honored you have taken part! I added your cover to the gallery.
September 3, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Maggie Stiefvater
Thanks! :D
December 19, 2009 at 5:48 pm
anna fong
oh my i found this late..
December 19, 2009 at 5:49 pm
anna fong
Come check out mine!
http://whenitrainsonme.blogspot.com/2009/12/omg-my-debut-ya-book.html