“A Cover Story”
by Shay Fabbro
Everyone says a great book cover is the key to the success of the book. It’s the part of the book that customers will see before they see anything else, whether it be while browsing in a book store or looking for a new book for the Kindle or Nook. An author really needs to make a good first impression right off the bat.When I was thinking about the cover for The Chosen, I knew I wanted to have something depicting the aliens from the planet Gentra. This world has always held a special place in my heart. As I was designing the planets in The Chosen, I KNEW that one of them had to be one that evolved under water. I remember the day I first learned of the thermal vents found in the deep oceans and the life that evolved to live in the conditions found there: hot, no light, tremendous pressure. I often try to imagine what the first scientists must have been thinking as the light from the submersibles illuminated this underwater world that had never seen the light of day. The creatures they found there were numerous and fascinating. That ecosystem has always been fascinating to me.The original cover for The Chosen shows a Gentran with a large vent in the background, with a dwelling attached. There’s even a light on in one of the rooms. My artist says it’s the room where the portal is housed. It’s a little sinister for those who have already read the books; the portal going to take the Guardians to their new planets so they can train the Chosen. It’s not a very pleasant process. If you want to find out more, you’ll just have to read the book ;)My amazing cover artist has done all of the covers for my books and with each one, he gets better and better. He mentioned wanting to re-do the cover for the first book at the same time I was thinking of re-doing the cover. Coincidence? Perhaps. I like to think of as the Universe speaking to the both of us to make a change that will hopefully introduce more readers to the Portals of Destiny series. Eric wanted to do the cover in a manner similar to a movie poster, with many different elements from 
the book rather than just one single entity. There’s a humanoid emerging from a portal and a Gentran at the bottom right who is in the process of entering it. And floating menacingly above it all is a portion of the enemy the Chosen must fight: a Mekan. The symbols along the left and right are important as well but I’ll leave that to the reader to discover as well 😉 I feel this new cover captures multiple elements of the book as well as showing a person, which is perhaps more familiar than just having a little pink jellyfish/octopus guy swimming around. The old edition of The Chosen is only available for a limited time on Amazon and Barnes and Noble online in both paperback and e-book formats. The new edition with the new cover will debut November 28th. Once the new edition comes out, the old cover will never be seen again! If anyone wants to get a copy of the first edition, now is the time to do it!
Please visit www.shayfabbro.com for excerpts from The Chosen as well as two other books in the Portals of Destiny series, Shattered Destiny (book 2) and The Mad Lord Lucian (novella).
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The Magical Mystery Blog Tour
We’ve entered the last week for 
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We head back down under for today’s 
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We stop nearish to the capital of the US in our brightly colored tour bus today as a part of 
The tour bus continues with a stop back with the talented and rather awesome LEAH PETERSEN again this week as she posts a rather funny interview as a part of her 
Well, we have a double-dip tour today! Along with our stop in Australia, we also stop in New England with author AL BOUDREAU Who also interviews me and posts his 5-star review of 
The Magical Mystery Blog Tour
Twenty-four hours before the official launch!