Welcome to a brand new Nuffnang experiment – the monthly Blogger Challenge! Each month we’ll try to inspire you to get your creative freak on with our Blogger Challenge topics – which will hopefully result in great blog post ideas for YOU and sometimes cool prizes too!
So, without further delay, here’s the challenge for this month! Create a blog post in response to this question:
August Blogger Challenge: If the old saying is true, and everyone has one book in them, what would YOUR book be?
How to participate:
All you need to do is create a blog post in response to the challenge question. The whole point of it is to encourage you to get creative and do a great post on whatever it is YOU love to blog about. Be as creative as possible! Include photos which would appear in your book – the best meal you ever ate, the craft project you’re most proud of making. Or your book could be full of tutorials – how to create the ultimate vintage fashion ensemble, or how to create a particular look if you like to work with makeup. Or you can create a book to celebrate something special for your family – a wedding, or a birthday.
If you want to be in the running to win one of the Blogger Challenge prizes, you’ll need to do a couple of extra things to enter the competition (see the Rules, below). Of course, if you just want to write a post for the challenge, and don’t want to enter the competition, that’s fine.
The Prizes: A chance to create and print your book for free, courtesy of Blurb
The top three most creative entries will get the chance to turn their book idea into a reality! There is an old adage that everybody has at least one book in them. Until recently though, the means to making those books were pretty limited. That has all changed with Blurb, a quality print-on-demand publisher, that wants to make your book a reality. So Blurb is offering three prizes of a free book for those in the Nuffnang bloggers community who come up with the best idea for their book.
One cool thing about Blurb books is they can be personal (a book of your own photography, or favourite recipes, or your crafty creations) which you turn into a book for yourself or your family. Or you can create a book and sell it through Blurb. So if you’re looking for a new way to monetise your blog, you could potentially create a book based on your blog posts (or with all new content) and then sell copies to your readers.
The Rules:
Create a blog post any day between now and August 31, and make sure that you include the words “Nuffnang August Blogger Challenge” and a link to this post. Then come back to this post and leave a comment with a link to your post, to let us know you’re entering! The three most creative entries (as judged by the Nuffnang team) will each get to make a free Blurb book!
What do Blurb books look like?
To inspire you to share your story, take a look at some of the books people have created using Blurb:
Fashion:Food & Raising Money for A Good Cause:Bloggers turned authors:

August 2nd, 2010 at 3:47 pm
That is a bloomin AWESOME challenge and an AWESOME prize!! We are REALLY gonna see bloggers’ creative juices now – nice one, Nuffnang!
August 2nd, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Oh thanks Leanne, I’m glad you think so! :)
August 2nd, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Awesome! I want to WIN… heh
August 2nd, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Awesome! I’va actually been wanting to do a book for awhile, this will give me to motivation I need! I missed the boat on the Blog Awards, not making that mistake twice!!!
August 4th, 2010 at 8:20 am
This is a great competition, can’t wait to see all the entires :)
Here is mine – http://www.hawkercentral.com/sjh/2010/08/04/alexander-beetle/
August 6th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Looks like fun :)
August 12th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
http://nessbow.webs.com/apps/blog/show/4501309-nuffnang-august-blogger-challange-if-you-wrote-a-book-what-would-it-be-about-
Here is my entry. Best wishes to all the other Nuffnang bloggers out there!
August 20th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
FUN FUN FUN! Great opportunity! :)
Cute entries so far Nuffnangers! Keen to see everyone’s creative sides! Good luck all!
Here is my submission ~ http://flairtoremember.blogspot.com/2010/08/if-everyone-has-book-in-them.html
I hope you enjoy!
Love Nikki x
August 25th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Wow, so many creative people in our midst! All the best, everyone!
Here’s my entry, thought I’d do because it sounded like fun! – http://chryshijing.blogspot.com/2010/08/whats-story-in-me.html
Shi Jing.
August 30th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Here’s mine :)
http://www.myweyoflife.com/2010/08/one-of-my-dream.html
good luck everyone!
August 30th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Here’s mine :)
http://www.myweyoflife.com/2010/08/one-of-my-dream.html
good luck everyone!
August 31st, 2010 at 12:53 am
I hope I am not too late for my submission. I realize that Australia is a day ahead of me!
I hope you enjoy my little book
http://my50syear.blogspot.com/2010/08/30-august-1956-fun-book-making.html
-50sgal
August 31st, 2010 at 1:34 am
Thanks Nuffnang and Blurb for the awesome opportunity!
Here is my entry!
http://snowdropm-berries.blogspot.com/2010/08/one-of-my-aims-in-life.html
All the best to those who are entering the competition too!
Have an awesome week =)
August 31st, 2010 at 6:44 am
I love this idea. Thanks for the chance! Here is my link:
http://www.nellbe.com/2010/08/31/nuffnang-blogger-challenge-unleash-the-book-in-you/
Good Luck everyone :)
August 31st, 2010 at 11:10 am
Oh, i just CAN’T do a blog post about this. It would ruin it all. But yes, my book would be my blog; erotica accompanied by black-and-white photography.
August 31st, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Phew! Done!!!
http://traytables-travels.blogspot.com/2010/08/when-i-heard-about-nuffnang-august.html
August 31st, 2010 at 10:49 pm
Hi everyone,
Here’s my entry, appreciate any comments:
http://www.noodlies.com/2010/08/nuffnang-august-blogger-challenge.html
Good luck everyone.
September 6th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Does anyone know when they are going to announce the winners to this challenge?
September 7th, 2010 at 10:29 am
Hi Donna,
We’ll be announcing it today actually! Stay tuned! :)
Cheers,
Sarah