Yesterday I did the “Create Your Debut Album” meme on Facebook. It produced a strangely believable album cover. I thought I’d modify things for the children’s book loving crowd. Above is my debut fantasy novel (yes, they are doing the parachute toss with a blue whale) – what will yours look like? Here goes:
CREATE YOUR DEBUT FANTASY BOOK COVER
1 – Go to “Behind the Name”. Hit “Generate a Name!” or click http://www.behindthename.com/random/
The first name you get is your author name.
2 – Go to “Fantasy Novel Title Generator”
or click http://nine.frenchboys.net/novel.php
This is the title of your book.
3 – Go to Photobucket and click on “surreal art” or click http://photobucket.com/images/surreal%20art/
Add the two numbers of your age together (ex. 2 + 7 = 9). Go to that page of results. The fourth picture, no matter what it is, is your cover.
4 – Use photoshop, Picnik, or similar to put it all together.
5 – Post it to your site along with this text.
*UPDATE* If you create a cover, let me know – I’m going to post a gallery
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March 2, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Amy Planchak Graves
I think yours came out better than mine, but it’s still somewhat believable.
March 2, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Scope Notes
I checked your cover out – it’s great! I like the change of perspective. Awesomely bad, to be sure. I’m going to post a gallery of these – I’ll add yours in!
March 2, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Sarah
I love this! Mine is here. (And now I’m off to procrastinate even further with Behind the Name!)
March 4, 2009 at 1:37 am
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March 9, 2009 at 11:48 am
Dee
Wow! Mine came out fantastic! (hardee har har) Mine is here: http://letsjustsee.blogspot.com/2009/03/scopes-facebook-meme.html
March 17, 2009 at 2:34 am
aquafortis
Oh, this is just a fantastic idea. I did the album cover Facebook thingy, too. I’ll try to get back to you on my fantasy book cover.
March 18, 2009 at 11:37 am
B.Nagel
WEEE!
http://bnagel.blogspot.com/2009/03/debut-fantasy-novel-cover.html
April 1, 2009 at 3:56 pm
teacherninja
I used this idea for one of my April Fool posts and gave you a link.
Thanks.
April 1, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Scope Notes
I checked out your cover – very nice! I’ll be adding it to the gallery in short order.
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July 29, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Linz
These challenges are extremely fun. I could sit here all day and keep pumping out covers. Here’s mine.
July 31, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Libbie
Your blog is awesome.
I did both the Fantasy and YA covers, just for poops and giggles. You can see them at my blog, cathartes-aura.blogspot.com
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November 8, 2009 at 4:54 pm
scrumptious
I really loved both this and the YA cover generator. I had a terrific time doing them! I didn’t get as clear a vision for Mistress Circle and Memory as I did for my YA book. I do have some speculative musings as to what might be behind the cover (woman-centered fantasy set in a slightly altered version of our own world?) http://ya4oa.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/coming-soon-to-an-imaginary-bookseller-near-you/
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