Puss in Boots Retellings

The ultimate fairy tale for cat lovers, starring a character made well know by the Shrek franchise: Puss in Boots!

In the original story the cat, Puss, was just as amazing as his Shrek version, but his owner is... useless. (If you don't believe me, click here to read my sarcastic summary of French tale told by Charles Perrault.)

It's not as well knows as other fairy tales but but by working with the awesome readers who follow me on social media we managed to come up with a list of suggestions for you!

First up, a quick word about my version of this story:

Puss in Boots - by K. M. Shea - Thrilling fights against bandits, a touching friendship between the female lead + puss the cat, all wrapped into a slow burn sweet romance story. In my adaptation I made some major changes to fix the main human characters and I gave the cat character, Puss, additional magic powers (because if he can talk through the whole fairy tale it is logical he is a magic cat). If you are a cat hater I recommend skipping this one as he plays a major part in this story.

Now for the full list of books which were suggested by my reader community (I asked for no spice and low language but check reviews if you have questions about the book's content). I hope you enjoy these reader approved book recs!

List of Puss in Boots Retellings:

Puss in Boots by K. M. Shea

A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine

The Caring and the Cursed by Amanda Thompson

The Shoeless Prince by Jacque Stevens

Whiskers and Wishes by Laura Greenwood

Faye and the Feline Feat by Sarah Beran

Cat’s Gambit by Kimberly A. Rogers

The Rogue Princess by Melanie Cellier

Illusion's Reign by Sarah Pennington

The Prior Quest by Kendra E. Ardnek

The Cat and His Servant by A. G. Marshall

True by Kristina J Jordan

The Princess Vow by Erika Everest

Booted Out by Mary-Kate Thomas

Boots and Roses by Erin Halbmaier

The Marquise and Her Cat by Shari L. Tapscott

Did you know I have a whole series of these blog posts featuring book recommendations, popular retellings, and lists of books vetted by readers? Click here to start reading or use the Book Lists category to filter them.

Happy Valentine’s Day 2026

Happy (early) Valentine’s Day, Champions! Valentine’s Day continues to be one of my favorite holidays–an entire day dedicated to sweets and showing everyone I love how thankful I am? Sign me up!

As is my tradition, I have a brand new coloring book page to share with you. This one features Lis and her mare from my Princess and the Pea novella. (Click here to read the story for free!)

This coloring book page was once again drawn by the lovely @olena_shkavron and I was super excited because this is one of the few coloring pages that features an actual scene (it's when Lis is traveling to Torrens and is getting poured on just like the princess in the original fairy tale story).

I'd also like to plug a few Valentine-ish short stories from the vault. I usually only mention The Love Potion since it is such an obvious good match for this holiday (and it mentions some of the characters from the Princess and the Pea novella)! But did you know I have multiple short stories that gives you a glimpse at the romance going on between the side characters? Here are a few of them for you to enjoy!

• The Gardener and the Lady’s Maid (Beauty and the Beast)

• A Meeting of Merchants (Little Selkie)

• The Best Friends Part 1 and 2 (Swan Lake)

• Bowling Alley Romance (Court of Midnight and Deception)

I hope you have a wonderful day, Champions, filled with love from all the people you hold dear! (And maybe a few sweets and good books, too!) Thanks for reading!

Evening Star Stretches & Aldelbert's Glory Stretches

Sheacon was a fan led online event which was hosted on a special discord server. The last Sheacon event was in 2024 and due to my health issues I will not be participating in future events. But you can still enjoy a lot of the awesome activities and games from past Sheacons. (Use this Sheacon blog tag to find everything!)

Evening Star Stretches

I recently realized I never made a dedicated blog post to celebrate the Evening Star Stretches from Sheacon 2023! These were designed to mimic the types of stretches Tari and the other Evening Stars from the Elves of Lessa series would need to do to keep their bodies flexible and strong enough to handle their intense training.

This stretch routine was created and led by Sheacon planner Louberry, and in addition to doing the routine as a "live" class during Sheacon she also recorded a session for us to post on Youtube so anyone not on Discord could still participate.

Click here to watch the routine hosted on Youtube! Thanks again Louberry!

Aldelbert's Glory Stretches

And back for Sheacon 2022 we had a stretch routine based on Aldelbert's Glory Stretches.

Aldelbert is a character from my Snow White retelling, and he’s rather famous among Timeless Fairy Tale Champions for his hybrid yoga/verbal affirmation exercises. I was surprised at the number of people who wanted access to Aldelbert's full stretch routine (which is not something I had created as part of writing the book) but the 2022 Sheacon planners rose to the challenge!

We don't have a recording of the 2022 stretches but we do have coloring book pages featuring a few of Aldelbert's Glory Stretches as demonstrated by Angelique, Princess Snow White, and the Seven Warriors!

These fantastic illustrations are done by Caitlin, you can see her art here on her Instagram page!

Below is the compilation page showing all 9 poses, and my team recently uploaded all the individual pages to the coloring page as well. Click here to see all of them!

Now you, too, can join Aldelbert in his quest to intensify personal glory!

Click Here for the PDF!