My New Blurb Book Is Here!

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Just can't say enough about my favourite photo book publisher, Blurb.  I recently used their simple blog to blurb software that allowed me to connect to my blog and "slurp" the contents into their template creating my latest book "Pocketful of Memory Cards".  When my blog is long gone I will still have this collection of the photos I took each day from May 2011 to April 2012.  It's a year long journal of sorts that I will cherish one day when I'm old and grey...er.  

If you haven't checked out Blurb yet, please do.  The options for unleashing your creativity are practically endless.  You can create books for yourself and your family, books you can sell, daybooks, notebooks, novels, children's picture books - you need only use your imagination to come up with some really neat things.  They have options like blurb to book, which I've mentioned, you can pull photos from Facebook, and you can now "slurp" from instagram as well.  You can allow other people, like the people you met on your travels who promised to send you photos, to add to your book on line.  It's really incredible once you start looking at the possibilities.  You can use their templates, create your own, or if you're a graphic artist or someone familiar with the workings of more complicated graphic software, you can really take full control and use their plug-in for Adobe InDesign. When you're done, you can even list them for sale if you wish.  You set the price, Blurb retains their portion and pays you the difference.

If I've inspired you to try it out, contact me on Blurb at Suzan17.  I'd love to see your work!

Comments

  1. GiftImage teamOctober 7, 2026 at 10:35 PM

    Turning a full year of daily photos into a physical journal gives the dates a useful role in the story. Alongside the printed book, keeping the original-resolution images and a plain-text copy of the captions in dated folders would preserve the material if the blog or a publishing tool disappears. Before printing, a contact sheet in date order could also help catch a missing day or a caption paired with the wrong photograph. That would complement the book without depending on the original online layout. Disclosure: I’m commenting on behalf of GiftImage.

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  2. TeslaWrap teamOctober 12, 2026 at 2:32 AM

    For the shared travel-book idea, a short contributor note could preserve something the photographs alone cannot: who took each image, where it was taken, and the one detail they remember about that moment. Those notes could sit beside the chosen images, giving each traveller a voice as well as a photo credit. I represent TeslaWrap, an independent project not affiliated with Tesla.

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