covers – Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher

Covers of The Chamber on YouTube

Check out The Chamber’s latest YouTube video about the The Chamber’s cover images.

For those of you who don’t go to YouTube or go to it very little, The Chamber Magazine has a nascent presence on YouTube. So far, most of the videos have been test videos that were experiments as I was learning basic video production programs and how to utilize YouTube. Above is my most recent video, which premiered on February 15, 2022. It shows the cover image for each issue of The Chamber in 2021. It’s brief, only a couple of minutes, but it is pleasantly entertaining. Check it out. Stop by The Chamber’s YouTube channel whenever you can. I don’t update it regularly, but I do try to produce artistic videos as best as I can.

While there, check out the playlists I have created. These are various combinations of assorted music to be played in the background while reading or doing housework or chillaxin’ or whenever.

Opinions Wanted

Soon, I will produce a second edition of The Scent and Other Stories, adding my short story “Bye Bye” to it. To reinforce the idea that this is a new edition, I am changing the cover. Below are my latest two designs. Please let me know your thoughts on each and which you recommend. Both are images from the public domain.

Marcelo Dias cover — The Marcelo Dias Cover

Opinions Wanted

Update: November 14, 2019, 1:24 a.m.

I got some good writing done over at El Toro’s tonight while I had a bowl of their excellent tortilla soup. I changed the plot to make major revelations about the characters of the two protagonists at the novel’s (Shadows and Stars) end. The final denouement should be very interesting. It’s not a plot twist. It’s more of a character twist, rather the twists of two characters.

After I came back home, I did some household chores, talked to the wife on the phone, and then I started re-thinking the covers for Alien Embrace and Click. I searched Pixabay (they have the best royalty-free images for my purposes), and found a couple of potential covers. The one for Click, required only adding title, subtitle, and byline. The one for Alien Embrace required some modification in Pixlr (a poor man’s Photoshop, but it does all I need and it does it well), but it turned out well. Here they are for your viewing pleasure. Let me know what you think. Now almost all my books have a person’s photo on them, except for A Tale of Hell… I will give that one some consideration. It may be difficult to find a photo of a person that captures the spirit of that particular work. The books will be updated with the new covers within the next 72 hours.

By the way, four of my books will be free tomorrow, Friday the 15th. Check them out at my Amazon author’s page.

Developing New E-Book Covers

Since last night, I have been toying with some ideas for new covers for my e-books in order to generate interest in my works and thereby increase sales. I have tried to create eye-catching designs. Let me know what you think. I have already incorporated a few into my works. See how they compare to the others by visiting my author’s page. The photos are all from the public domain.