Here’s another great contest within a contest that will definitely appeal to all the creative Moderncat readers! If you don’t already know about Blurb.com, you’re going to love this. It’s an online service that lets you publish your own beautiful, full-color books, one (or several) at a time. It looks very easy, you simply download their software to help you create your book or you can create your book in your own layout software and use a pdf to publish it. Either way, the end result is a professional looking, bookstore-quality book. Once you’ve created your book online, you can easily promote it and let others purchase copies directly from Blurb and make a little extra cash for yourself. Both hardcover and softcover are available in a variety of sizes.
2009 Blurb Best Books Contest
Here’s the exciting news: Blurb is hosting the first annual Best Blurb Books Contest, and there’s a category for people passionate about photographing their pets. The grand prize for the pets category is $3,000, and there will be a runner-up who receives $1,000. Anyone can enter a pet-themed photo book through October 22. All you have to do is create a book, order one copy of your book and then enter the book into the contest in the pet category. Get all the contest details here.
To give you a little inspiration, here are some books people created featuring beautiful photos of their cats.
ENTER TO WIN A FREE BOOKMAKING CODE!
The team over at Blurb really wants to see what the Moderncat readers can do for the contest, so they are offering four free bookmaking codes! That means you won’t have to pay the $36.95 fee to create your book and enter it into the contest. So please leave a comment on this post to enter to win one of the bookmaking codes. The winners will be chosen in a random drawing on October 1 and will receive the codes right away so they can start working on their contest entries to have them ready by the October 22 deadline. Good luck to everyone!
September 29th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Oh, so interesting!
September 29th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Super cute!
September 29th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Sounds nice, I’d like to enter please
September 29th, 2009 at 8:36 am
would love to see my babies in print!
September 29th, 2009 at 8:37 am
What a fun idea! I’d love to creat a book about my cats.
September 29th, 2009 at 8:40 am
This is such a good idea!
September 29th, 2009 at 8:43 am
This contest is such a cool idea!
September 29th, 2009 at 8:57 am
i would love to have a book about my moo kitty!
September 29th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Sounds fun!
September 29th, 2009 at 9:00 am
I love this. I have a sick kitty and this would be a great way to remember him forever =^..^=
September 29th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Blurb is awesome!
September 29th, 2009 at 9:16 am
I’ve always wanted to do something like that – my little one won’t be around forever, and I want something to remember her by.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:17 am
We have some beautiful photos of the rescue shelter cats who have been through our program (over 700 placed!) that we would like to share through this medium…
September 29th, 2009 at 9:17 am
These are stunning and a great way to display the TONS of cat pictures I have.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Love to make a book of my cats. Like all cats mine are enormously photogenic!
September 29th, 2009 at 9:21 am
How cool is this??
September 29th, 2009 at 9:24 am
I’d love to make a book devoted to my girls!
September 29th, 2009 at 9:25 am
My glamourpusses would love to have their 15 minutes of fame
September 29th, 2009 at 9:28 am
another great idea, kate. thanks for hooking us up! i’d love to be entered in the contest.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Wow! How cool is that?
September 29th, 2009 at 9:30 am
OoOo! I want it! this looks amazing!
September 29th, 2009 at 9:32 am
love blurb and love my ding dong kitties and their crazy antics! maybe it’s time for ben and stu’s big break!
September 29th, 2009 at 9:36 am
looks great. a good way to bring my digital images lives
September 29th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Will definitely enter, I’ve got a yard full!
September 29th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Awesome, Blurb is so much fun! I can turn my cat blog into a book!
September 29th, 2009 at 9:52 am
This is a really cool idea!
September 29th, 2009 at 9:53 am
I have used Blurb before…very easy and great quality books! I have wanted to put together a book of my cats for a long time!!!
September 29th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Fantastic idea! It will be hard to be the editor… could make a whole shelf full
September 29th, 2009 at 9:55 am
What a great idea, leaving written history about my furry little children..!!!
September 29th, 2009 at 9:59 am
very cool, I have not seen this before
September 29th, 2009 at 10:03 am
I’ve been meaning to do one of these photo books since they’re so popular now. Neat idea.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Yet another great idea! Thanks for making us aware of all these cool things, ModernCat!
September 29th, 2009 at 10:08 am
I have SO many pictures of my cat I’m sure I could make a couple of books!!!
September 29th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Wow! Kitties are the happiness! This is the way to share the happiness!!!
September 29th, 2009 at 10:14 am
What a great idea!!
September 29th, 2009 at 10:23 am
!! Excellent product idea — let us put our pets into print! I love it.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:33 am
woohoo!
September 29th, 2009 at 10:42 am
This sounds really interesting! I love the samples shown
September 29th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Sounds like fun!
September 29th, 2009 at 10:47 am
I might buy one of these for christmas
September 29th, 2009 at 10:48 am
I’d love to make a photo book with adorable pictures of my four kitties!
September 29th, 2009 at 10:53 am
That really looks like fun!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:02 am
This is a great idea! I know just the cat’s to put in a book!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Very cool! We have plenty of pics of Rudy and Miles for a book!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Neato Bendito!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:13 am
How great is this! Am so glad to know about this site and would love to do a book of our two Siberian/Maine Coon cats, Vanya & Valentine !
September 29th, 2009 at 11:13 am
That looks incredibly professional!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Fabulous! This looks like a lot of fun. What a great gift! Thank you.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Very nice this contest! I’m gonna take photos of my cat right now!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Why, this is wonderful! A picture book of our own furry companions! I’ve wanted to have a fitting memorial for my fur friends that have gone on before me, and now I know where to go to do it. I’d never even heard of Blurb.com before the Moderncat update email. Thanks again Moderncat for bringing us more of the web’s best new cat-related content!