"Write a book -- are you crazy?!?"

I have an idea that might be crazy. We’d like to write a book about Labradoodles and Goldendoodles. But we would need your help.

More about the book in a minute. First the reason why we would even think about writing one.

We have a pretty big goal at DK:

To improve the health and happiness of all Doodles and their owners.

To do that we have to spread good information. We do so much of that here. We’ve got some seriously smart doodle people here! And extremely generous with your knowledge too. The amount of valuable information you all provide for other Doodle owners on a daily basis is unmatched.

But it’s not enough.

We want to spread the wisdom you all have to everyone that is looking for that information. These will often be people outside of our website. Many people who don’t appreciate a social network like you and I do (what?!?), but would like to still get all the knowledge that is continually shared here on DK.

So we want to write a book. THE definitive book on the topic of Labradoodles and Goldendoodles. We want it to be available pretty much everywhere. Amazon Kindle store, Apple iBooks store, pdf format, and even real paper and ink format. We want to spread it far and wide. Way beyond the friendly confines of DK.

We will sell this book. We want it to be cheap. We’re thinking $7.99. We would do as we always do and donate 25% of all our proceeds to Doodle and dog rescue organizations.

But we need your help. After all, you fabulous Doodle Kissers are the big brains around here. :-) We need help writing, compiling, and editing it. This will be a team effort. A crowdsourced book.

Our first step will be to complete an outline. We will then need individuals to help flesh out any sections that they have an interest in. We will need photo contributions / editing.

Here is our first outline for the book: https://gingkoapp.com/dk-doodle-book

This outline is in an online outliner called Gingko. It’s threaded so you can drill down into topics. It will be weird at first, but I think you’ll see the power of it very quickly. The left column contains chapters. Click on any chapter title and you will then be able to see all the sections within that chapter. Etc.

What do you think? Are we crazy? Are you in? Will you help create the definitive guide to Labradoodles and Goldendoodles?

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