Tuesday, July 28, 2009

SHOWcase

Here's a fun little project - following strict rules, make a young adult novel cover. Here's what I ended up with:



Would I read this book? Probably not. Would I read it if the Spock look-alike had pointy ears? Probably. Who wouldn't want to hear about that time Spock won the big surfing competition on Risa?

Oh, and here are the rules I had to follow:

CREATE YOUR DEBUT YA COVER

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

The name that appears is your author name.

2 – Go to “Random Word Generator” or click http://www.websitestyle.com/parser/randomword.shtml

The word listed under “Random Verb” is your title.

3 – 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.

4 – Use Photoshop, Picnik, or similar to put it all together. Be sure to crop and/or zoom in.

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

2 comments:

Holly said...

Good job! At least you followed the directions about including a person in the cover! I still don't understand why a surfer showed up when you searched for showcase images, but oh well.

C. K. Kelly Martin said...

That's part of Spock's misspent youth - he doesn't like to talk about it so shhhh.