100 Scope Notes has helpfully given a bit of levity to CoverFAIL 2009, with the Create Your Debut YA Cover game.
CREATE YOUR DEBUT YA COVER!
- – Go to “Fake Name Generator” or click http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/.
The name that appears is your author name.
- – Go to “Random Word Generator” or click http://www.websitestyle.com/parser/randomword.shtml.
The word listed under “Random Verb” is your title.
- – 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. I took “person” to mean a whole human, a head or face, not hands, or feet. This bucks the YA trend, of course. If you see a decapitated head or a torso/belly button, go for it. You’re REALLY YA then.
- – Use Photoshop, Publisher, Picnik, or similar to put it all together. Be sure to crop and/or zoom in.
- – Post it to your site along with this text. Drop a note on 100 Scope Notes Debut YA Cover Game to be included in the gallery.
Enjoy!
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Well done. I'll be adding this to the gallery (up tomorrow) – thanks for taking part!
Kewl!
Paz
This is awesome. I'll have to try to do one.
The funny thing about your fake name is that it's surprisingly similar to my husband's actual name.