Create Your Debut Picture Book Cover

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YA has been done. Fantasy is yesterday’s news. It’s time to do something for the kids. Above is my debut picture book cover.

What will yours look like?

CREATE YOUR DEBUT PICTURE BOOK COVER

1 – Go to “The Name Generator” or click http://www.thenamegenerator.com/

Click GENERATE NEW NAME. The name that appears is your author name.

2 – Go to “Picture Book Title Generator” or click http://www.generatorland.com/usergenerator.aspx?id=243

Click CREATE TITLE! This is the title of your picture book.

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

Type the last word from your title into the search box followed by the word “drawing”. Click FIND. The first suitable image is your cover.

4 – Use Photoshop, Picnik, or similar to put it all together. Gettin’ creative is encouraged.

5 – Post it to your site along with this text.

If you create a cover, let me know – I’m going to post a reader gallery soon.

Covers Week continues tomorrow with an interview of cover-designing wiz Chad W. Beckerman. Click here for a full schedule of events.

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November 9, 2009 at 10:13 am

riddleburger

I tried, Scopester, but what I created was such an abomination, I just couldn’t go through with it.
Is it fair to start over again? Perhaps “Cody Dahood’s” second work will be less offensive to all that is decent…

November 9, 2009 at 10:20 am

Scope Notes

A do-over is certainly allowed! However, abominations are also welcome.

November 9, 2009 at 12:27 pm

Melissa (Book Nut)

I played along… my cover is here.

November 9, 2009 at 1:01 pm

Gallery: Debut Picture Book Covers « 100 Scope Notes

[…] To the brave men and women who assembled their debut picture book covers, we salute you (click here to give it a try). What follows is a gallery of the results in all their good, bad, and ugly glory. I’ll be […]

November 9, 2009 at 2:41 pm

MotherReader

Thanks for the diversion. Here’s mine:
http://www.motherreader.com/2009/11/randall-warm-frog.html

November 9, 2009 at 3:40 pm

I had gone to flickr earlier, not the flickrcc site. So now I have something that’s not an abomination at all:

What I’m reading now: Swine flu edition

November 9, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Jennie

These cover challenges are such fun.

November 9, 2009 at 5:49 pm

scrumptious

I am loving these cover games! I’m really looking forward to all of Cover Week, here. I had a much harder time with this one than the YA and Fantasy covers, but here it is, in all its trippy glory.

I don’t know if you are still updating the YA gallery (and is there a fantasy gallery? I didn’t see one) but I would love to have my YA cover added amongst all the amazing work there!

November 9, 2009 at 5:50 pm

Yikes! That didn’t seem to work. Here’s the link to the post with my picture book: http://ya4oa.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/coming-soon-to-an-imaginary-bookseller-near-you/

November 9, 2009 at 6:43 pm

Jim Randolph

Fun one!

http://www.teacherninjas.com/2009/11/corey-short-pirate.html

tanita

Oh, the horror.
Mine is here. Thank you so much for coming up with distracting silliness — just what I needed for a freezing cold, blah, gray day.

November 9, 2009 at 7:31 pm

allegore

This was hilarious! I can’t wait to see them all. Here is mine:

http://allegore.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/my-debut-picture-book-cover/

November 9, 2009 at 7:35 pm

Erin Broderick

Very fun!

http://msbrodericksbookblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/arno-ugliest-bicycle.html

November 9, 2009 at 9:17 pm

Miriam Tuohy

Man, those are funny. But what I would really, really love to see is a draft (at least) of the book content! because some of those sound awesome :-) That would be a real challenge.

November 9, 2009 at 9:21 pm

I agree. Adding a plot synopsis should be the unwritten 6th step.

November 9, 2009 at 9:48 pm

Patti

Here is mine! http://oopswrongcookie.blogspot.com/2009/11/create-your-own-picure-book-cover.html Fun fun fun!

November 9, 2009 at 11:14 pm

Boni Ashburn

Thanks for the fun, Scope :) Love these!

Mine’s here: http://boniashburn.com/blog/

November 10, 2009 at 2:20 am

Coming soon to an imaginary bookseller near you… « The Rebel Angels step out at Twilight in their Traveling Pants

[…] To celebrate “Covers Week,” 100 Scope Notes has put up a new game, this one to create a children’s picture book cover. While my previous two covers came together with ease, I had much tougher time with this one. An […]

November 10, 2009 at 4:17 am

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