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William Shatner<\/strong> has joined the ranks of those using Kickstarter<\/em> to fund a project.<\/p>\n The actor hopes to fund the production of a new book to be called Catch Me Up<\/em>.<\/p>\n In Catch Me Up<\/em>, Shatner “introduces a fresh, modern approach to teaching seniors how to leverage their lifelong skill sets to create viable businesses and become entrepreneurs.”<\/p>\n “I’ve been unemployed over four hundred times in my life,” said Shatner. “More importantly I have had to reinvent myself four hundred times to get re-hired by TV shows, movie producers, and even by Priceline.com<\/em> when I was over sixty years old.”<\/p>\n Shatner has had to deal with changing technology over the course of his eighty-three years and he found it difficult as he got older. “My smart phone made me feel stupid,” he admitted. “My grandkids had to show me how to use Facebook<\/em>. I refused to even have an email account! And you know what I found out? Without this know-how, I was becoming irrelevant. And a guy like me can’t afford to be irrelevant. So I did something about it.”<\/p>\n Why Kickstarter<\/em> instead of going through a traditional publisher? “I’m encouraging people in the book to use tools like Kickstarter<\/em> to start their own business,” said Shatner, “so I thought why not sell this book the same way? Essentially, I’m using the book’s techniques to create and sell the book itself.”<\/p>\n The Catch Me Up Kickstarter<\/em> campaign has a goal of $50,000. Perks range from a name mention on the Catch Me Up website<\/em> ($1) through a table for six at a William Shatner Charity Gala<\/em> ($10,000). The Catch Me Up<\/em> campaign runs through January 20, and can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n