Under Cover

Posted on July 30, 2009 by H. L. Dyer

Kate Schafer Testerman posted this little activity over on KT Literary. You can read the full rules on her site, but in a nutshell: the task was to design a book cover using a randomly generated author name, book title, and cover image.

So I decided to play along (It’s the least I can do after I made her the unwitting star in a Broadway-style musical.)

It should be quite obvious that my random name was “Tricia Forbes” and my random title was the verb “Fold”:

I think it turned out quite well. =)

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16 Responses

Nicole, on July 30, 2009 at 4:00 pm said:

Hi,

Great book cover. It goes nicely with the title. I love your blog here in general and query tracker is indispensable to my life. Just wanted to stop by and say that and also say thanks for being a follower!

~ Nicole

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Eileen Astels, on July 31, 2009 at 5:19 am said:

Wow, that’s very creative! Neat cover.

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Jennifer, on July 31, 2009 at 8:18 am said:

Hello!

I wanted to say thanks for following 🙂 I recently discovered query tracker and boy o boy is it full of excellent information (and some pretty great parodies to boot!). I’m looking forward to reading this blog as well!

Have a great weekend,
~Jen

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beth, on July 31, 2009 at 8:33 am said:

I quite like that! That would be a really interesting cover design irl!

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Angie, on July 31, 2009 at 9:49 am said:

I love it! I’ll bet it would make a great book. I may have to try it.

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Rebecca Knight, on July 31, 2009 at 10:35 am said:

Now, I want to print it out and see if it folds up into a cube-head! Great work :D.

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Clara, on July 31, 2009 at 11:10 am said:

Ooh, that looks very cool.

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Susan Mills a.k.a. Lazy Writer, on July 31, 2009 at 12:39 pm said:

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Love the cover! Also, congrats on becoming an agented writer. I wish you all the success in the world, and can’t wait to read your published work!

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Abby, on July 31, 2009 at 10:29 pm said:

I like it. Very cool!

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Barrie Summy, on August 1, 2009 at 12:22 am said:

I’d buy that book. I mean, if it existed. 🙂

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Vydra, on August 1, 2009 at 10:25 am said:

It’s fantastic. Really fantastic.

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Amy Lynn Sonnichsen, on August 1, 2009 at 1:28 pm said:

So cool.

How long did it take you to do that?

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- H. L. Dyer, on August 1, 2009 at 1:39 pm said:
  
  Um… not long at all, since the cover art was randomly chosen as well. All I did was stick the random art, name, and title together and play with fonts and layouts. 😉
  
  It was quite a fun little meme, really… feel free to join in!
  
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ElanaJ, on August 1, 2009 at 3:22 pm said:

It’s fantastic! You are so talented with Photoshop, blogging, technical stuff. Just everything! Way to go. 🙂

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Sherrie Petersen, on August 2, 2009 at 11:45 am said:

Very cool concept 🙂

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SM Blooding, on August 3, 2009 at 1:43 pm said:

Ooooooh! Now, see, this one I like! It’s very different. Wickedly cool.

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