So if you haven't figured it out already, the two posts I put up yesterday were April Fool's jokes. Fuse #8 has not revealed the favorite picture books as yet (of course I' haven't gone through my feed reader yet, so she may have started--it'll certainly lead to some interesting discussion I'm sure). It was just a play on her "Triumvirate of Mediocrity" post from a while back.And there is no such book as The Vengenace of Argir or an author named "Orson Wright" (as far as I know). I took some of the ideas from Travis's post on "Create Your Debut FantasyNovel Cover" from 100 Scope Notes and tweaked it for my own nefarious purposes. I must admit it's quite fun.
First, got to this name generator to make up an author name.
Then go to this fantasy novel name generator to get a title.
Now he said to go to Photobucket and click on "surreal art" but Photobucket is blocked at my workplace (natch), so I went to a service which searches for Creative Commons licensed images and types in "surreal" instead. Travis gives a formula for picking a random image, but I just picked one that kinda went with my title.
Finally, I used Picnik to edit it (and added the touch of an award sticker).
Here's another one I made later in the day. I think it'd be fun to try this with my students. I have them writing a bunch of poems this month--maybe I'll let them finish up the project by creating their own poetry volume cover.
Have a great month.
