When you spend a lot of your time unpacking fairy tales to prove to folks they have any kind of relevance today, and a lot of your time gorging yourself on every free entrepreneurial resource under the sun of the inter-webs, at some point in time your brain is going to decide something is genius. For me, that something was #PussInBootsCamp. It was a catchy name that lent itself all too easily to some good ol’ fashioned social media schmuckery.

First, it was going to be a three-day email bootcamp going in-depth on five lessons with their own catchy titles:

Then, it was going to be a five-part online course with videos which folks would find through a free-to-download ebook that gave away all the basic information culled from an excessive amount of research (an embarrassingly large percentage of which was done through a secret pinterest board as a kind of market research I’m not wholly proud of, but - hey - it happened and now there is only moving forward).

Now, I just wanna write the dang book. I just want to sit down with a copy of Charles Perrault’s “Master Cat, or Puss in Boots” as translated by Jack Zipes (who it sometimes seems is having all the fairy tale fun until I’m reminded that Maria Tatar exists) and break it apart like I would any other fairy tale. Except I’ve already done a little of the breaking down, and now I just want to go deep and pull the ever-lovin’ stuffing out of the old story and show you everything I see every time I think about this life-changing cat.

This may just be a DIY book or evolve into an online course or float around the internet like so many of the manifesto things out there. Whatever this thing is, it’s getting written. It’s getting done one keystroke at a time and you are more than welcome to take part in the ride.