January 11, 2014

Bout of Books Challenge: Book Staging

Bout of Books
Book Staging
Hosted by: Midnight Book Girl

The Challenge: You know how real estate agents will stage an apartment to attract potential buyers?  Well, that’s what you’re going to do to a book! 

The Rules: Take a picture of a book you’re reading today, or any book you have lying around.  In the picture you should have the book in a setting, or surrounded by items, that represent the book.  It can mimic the cover, or represent characters/events/etc from the story.  Basically, make us want to read the book based on picture alone. This must be a picture YOU take and upload.  Simply stage the book, and upload a picture to your blog, Twitter or Goodreads account. If you don’t have any of these, than you can post your picture on my blog’s Facebook page.

I have never participated in a challenge like this before, but it was a blast. Enjoy the photo. I apologize for my poorly worded description. 


I staged Gretchen McNeil's Ten. I added the movies Clue and I Know What You Did Last Summer to the photo because Ten reminded me of those movies a little bit when I read it. I also added a knife with "blood" (aka ketchup) on it because it is a gory novel, and I thought it would catch someone's attention. I also played with the color a little and tried to make the photo give off a creepy/dark feeling to help emphasize that Ten is a horror novel. 

7 comments:

  1. What a great idea for a challenge! I love your props. I have not read Ten yet, but love how you added Clue and I Know What You Did Last Summer and the knife with ketchup in the picture. And I like that it's in black and white. Scary...Great job. :)

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    1. Thanks! This was just a lot of fun! My husband came home and saw this sitting on the table and was really confused for a second, and then he just asks if it was for the blog. lol

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  2. Another fun challenge! Great job on the picture, I DO want to read this now - a big reason is that I just LOVE Clue.

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  3. Ten looks daunting in your staging. Ha! I didn't notice the knife with ketchup until you mentioned it. Everyone got really creative with this challenge. It was so fun.

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    1. This challenge was definitely my favorite!

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  4. Nice staging. Everything looks perfectly tied in.

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